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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a huge shortage of seats in the contract private special ed schools FCPS uses. [/quote]

Only a very small percentage of students with disabilities are appropriate for the private special ed schools. The law has required students to be educated in the least restrictive setting since at least 1975. Prior to that, students with disabilities either weren't allowed to go to school at all or were warehoused, out of sight and out of mind.[/quote]

That's true, but there's a domino effect. Usually kids go from general ed to the CSS sites and then to the private contract schools. When the contract schools are full, kids can't move out of the CSS sites and seats don't open up there.[/quote]

Some kids end up on homeschool, I know that is not the name but the online schooling with occasional Teacher visits for sick kids, because their behavior is too much for CSS or the CSS is not able to meet their needs. The kids end up at home while waiting for a spot to open in one of the private schools. And most of the private schools are not great environments. Very few kids end up at the nicer SPED privates people know about.[/quote]

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