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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]Wow OP, I had no idea this was happening. I was hoping my child would get a spot in their French immersion, but now I'm not so sure. :-([/quote]

Unfortunately, this can happen at any MCPS ES.  Current conditions have led to an uptick in violence in our schools and nobody in a leadership position wants to fix the issues or implement solid discipline (because of equity issues).  [/quote]

What exactly are those "current conditions" ?  
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The current belief that integrating disturbed, disruptive, and violent children with non-disruptive, well behaved children will magically improve outcomes. [/quote]

Silly laws protecting kids with disabilities. Why don't we just send them straight to prison?[/quote]

Well, that’s a dumb statement. Of course people want to protect children with disabilities, but they also want to protect the other 98% of the children who might be in harms way. Keeping a violent child in general education is a disservice to both that child and the other children in the classroom.
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You're obviously not familiar with the self-contained programs. They still go without the necessary supports and services, but you don't see that because your kids are in a different room.[/quote]

So why are you complaining? If it is no different for your child at least it is an improvement for the kids in a different room.[/quote]

It's often quite worse. Which is exactly what you'd expect anytime you try to go down the "separate but equal" path.[/quote]
Then fight to improve self-contained programs. Don't fight to keep your kid in a gen-ed classroom where they obviously don't belong and are ruining the education for the other 98% of the kids.[/quote]

This thread, and others like it, demonstrates quite clearly that many people- including MCPS staff- simply want to warehouse children with special needs. With that attitude, of course those programs are going to be resource-starved. If you want kids out of your classroom, then you need to get MCPS to make the alternatives better. Much better.[/quote]

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