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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's a pain in the ass that requires extra work, so not everybody can be accommodated. [/quote]

This is the real reason. [/quote]

But how is it extra work? There is a teacher at my kids’ school whose sole job is to do these type of assessments and work with kids who have special needs. It’s her job.[/quote]

Because then the student has accommodations in the classroom that can be hard to manage when you have many in each class! You’re teaching one lesson to 20 kids and then 5 separate plans for the 5 kids with different accommodations.[/quote]
The 300% increase in 504 accommodations in UMC areas has changed teaching over the past decade.[/quote]

In MCPS, 504 accommodations are given for children in lieu of an IEP. A sign that a child needs an IEP so they can learn skills for independence is a 504 plan that has increasing accommodations that go into double digits.

I agree giving a child a 504 plan with a long list of things that the general educator needs to do for the child is an impossible situation for the general education teacher and a disservice for the student. In those cases, the general education teacher should be speaking up and advocating for the child to have an IEP. [/quote]

With an IEP, the student should have special education services including service hours with a special education teacher that would meet the child’s needs versus adding to the incredibly large workload of general education teachers. [/quote]

If every child how needed an IEP (including those with 504s) got one, MCPS would be lucky to get them 15 minutes a week with a special education teacher. There is a massive shortage, so everything would just fall back on the classroom teacher.  [/quote]

And services are rarely provided 1-1. At best your kid is in a small group and even then they don’t meet consistently because of scheduling and staffing issues[/quote]

MCPS has staffing shortages for students with disabilities because they choose to have staffing shortages. They are using special education staff as substitutes. They are underpaying virtually all staff who work with students with disabilities. Then because principals know that there are staffing issues, in the pre-IEP meetings before parents are invited in, staff members are told what the decision at the meeting will be. Special Education is a dog and pony show in MCPS.[/quote]

It sounds like this is because of the large increases in students with a diagnosis that's happened over the past decade. [/quote]

That minimalist assumption ignores the flight of retirements and resignations of staff that left MCPS during the pandemic. For example, WJLA recently reported on its Crisis in the Classroom series why the MCPS pay scale does not align with the standard pay scale for a school psychologist position. More parents are going to get private assessments when the school team stalls and creates road blocks to MCPS evaluations. With more parents getting private assessments, more parents have data needed for 504 plans and IEPs. [/quote]

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