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[quote=Anonymous]Districts have a lot of specialized programs with smaller classes. They have them for children with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, emotional issues and other needs. Many of these classes are very small. There is a good case to be made for having a program for those who are severely impacted by sensory needs and need smaller classes and could perform well academically if given access to similarly smaller classes. I don't have enough information about OP's child but I have met some children who really need this.

These programs pull children from all over the district or part of the district so the idea would be to maybe start with 1 or 2 of these and bus the kids in from all over. I don't think anyone would reasonably expect every school to have one of these classrooms.

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In an ideal world, what could MCPS have done?  I don't mean to be snarky - I'm genuinely curious about how a public school with finite resources per child could do a better job.  If you were the principal of your old school, what would you have done?  Created a stand-alone classroom for kids with sensory issues?  That runs into LRE issues, as well as the fact that kids with sensory issues are not always sensitive to the sensory issues of their peers.  Create a single, smaller, classroom in each grade?  I can imagine how that would go down with the rest of the parents.

I'm glad you could afford private, truly, but I'm not sure this is an issue of what the school is "willing to do about it" unless you can see how the school could have created a private school environment in public. [/quote][/quote]

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