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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The amount of identified kids is high. The severity of needs has exploded. Yet, the student-teacher ratio has increased- especially in the discrete programs. My understanding is that the new superintendent wants to close down discrete programs in elementary and limited them in middle and high. Unfortunately, we need more programs, not fewer.[/quote]

It does not bode well for MCPS special ed if that’s what the superintendent intends! Executive level staff need to spend a few days in schools, observing discrete and special school programs. Not just a walk-through but actually sit and see what is going on. For too long decisions have been made by people who have no idea what the real story is.[/quote]

Couldn’t agree more. We need more discrete programs, not less. The home school model does not serve all special education students and I believe that’s intentional.

Parent of a special education student and MCPS staff member.[/quote]

Except MCPS is getting its hand slapped by MSDE for having "too many" kids in LRE-C (less than 40% of time in gen ed). MSDE has picked some arbitrary percentage figure of kids, like 1%, who should be in these placements, and MCPS has too many, so they're chucking kids out into inclusion willy-nilly to get in compliance.

People want to blame MCPS for this stuff and seem to think they act in a vacuum. A lot of the things we hate and that don't work are driven by bureaucratic drones in MSDE who think everything should function a certain way because they read something about it, not because it actually works. Meanwhile everything goes down the drain and they watch the districts get hit by tomatoes from parents who quite reasonably don't realize where the actual mandates are coming from.[/quote]

Same situation in FCPS. The people making these decisions haven't been in classrooms in decades and it shows.[/quote]

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