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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Special needs parents are going to bleed public schools dry. [/quote]

I’m sure some people here will be mad at me for saying this, but I’m going to go ahead and say it. I think some parents are frustrated and upset that their child has struggles and it’s easier to direct those feelings outward in the form of anger at teachers and schools, than to come to terms with the reality that there’s only going to be so much that anyone can do to help.[/quote]

Correct, and the federal laws that govern everything about special education are very burdensome and unrealistic for many school districts to carry out properly due to lack of funding and personnel. [/quote]

Nope. IDEA has been around since the early 1970s. FCPS is also a 3.5 billion dollar school system. As a special education teacher, I've found that FCPS has uniquely bad management policies related to special education, which are unrelated to federal laws. It was unusually hard to get a request for a 1 on 1 aide approved, even though the central office pays hefty salaries to 'PSL' bureaucrats that don't contribute anything of value. They have an unreasonable case management system where 1 teacher in the department is responsible for writing the goals and present level portions of IEPs for up to 50 children in each grade. They also gave teachers zero time to work on IEP writing, and had unmanageably tight deadlines. Administrators were useless. So it's not the federal laws that are wrong, it's the petty rules individual districts concoct with their teachers that cause breakdowns. This is a superintendent and special education central office failure. That being said, if any advocate talked to me the way Callie apparently talks to teachers during one of my IEP meetings I would get her banned from my school lol. [/quote]

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