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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for your responses. I don't want to escalate if it is not necessary. The student is coming from a different school system and the counselor is placing them at low level classes without testing. [/quote]

Step 1 is to ask the counselor what the evaluation process typically involves or what it is going to look like.  (Remember, too, that systems can maintain equivalencies between one another that have nothing to do with your child: for example, District A may already know that students moving in from District B in curriculum X have been doing what would be considered grade-level work in District A, so they don't strictly need to retest.)  The counselor may be trying to create a basic schedule as a placeholder and then adjust it later, too.

Then you can look back at whether you have been receiving timely and informative responses, whether or not you like their content.  If you have not been receiving communications, you should check first on what the working hours for the counselors really are at this time of year _before_ you write the Resource Counselor or other authority figure.

Only at that point can you start a well-informed conversation about placement, bearing in mind that MCPS does tend to do things on fairly short timeframes.  This would logically feel like the right time of year for a parent or guardian to settle a child's schedule, but the schools tend to run later.[/quote]

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