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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a MS teacher and I also happen to have a child with special needs, so I see both sides of this.

First, OP, I'm so sorry you are dealing with this, and you're right, it shouldn't be this hard!  MCPS as an institution is terrible for special needs.

Re the individual teachers, though, as a teacher, my guess is that it's not that they don't want to accommodate or don't care about your child--it's simply  that they are exhausted and overworked!  Six classes of 30 kids each--before adding anything, we are already stretched thin.  To add multiple different individual accommodations (because there are multiple IEPs/504s, each of which is different) on top of already having 180 students...well, I'm not surprised that something has to give.  Don't get me wrong, it shouldn't happen and I'm not suggesting you just accept it.  Again, I'm a special needs parent myself.  But please know that it is very hard to meaningfully individualize programs when one already has so many students, and I'd venture to say that teachers are doing the best they can.  In other words, there is no hidden malice or lack of caring.  To you, your child rightfully is the center of the universe, as mine is to me, etc.--but to your child's teachers he is one among 180.  [/quote]

NP here - I totally get this, MS teacher. I have never found reason to blame a particular individual. In my son's ES, they are all individually intelligent, sympathetic and try their best. Except their best isn't enough because of limitations in the system, especially the large numbers of students they care for. I deplore the sad reality that it's either MCPS, with or without and advocate, or really expensive private schools. I don't even like any of the private schools! I'd really prefer a public school system that works a little better :-)

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