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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is something I would tell parents of students with IEP's: If you think your child should have a different service placement (outside the HSM) you should hire an advocate/lawyer.

The gatekeeping involved with the central special ed department is off the charts at this point. They will do everything in their power to work to prevent a kid from being moved to a different program because of staff shortages in those programs. Local special ed teachers are POWERLESS (other than collecting data and working on the IEP) to make this happen. The special ed supervisors will stonewall and throw up obstacle after obstacle. Only when a parent is there being persistent and bringing representation do things really happen.  [/quote]

I hate to see this worded like this.  You want grace for teachers who are over burden but don’t have grace for central special Ed supervisors who you admit are trying not to add more to already overburdened teachers in another program.  And the Special ED assistant super as admitted publicly that their are kids who need and should be in private settings but can’t because there are not spaces available.

What I would like to see is continued advocacy for Spec-Ed teaching salary to be a completely different scale.  I also like to see some case management admin support.[/quote]

I would love to see SpEd on a different pay scale. But I fear two things: 1) MCEA would never let it happen, and 2) it would just exacerbate staffing problems, since already budget is the limiting factor for things like paras.[/quote]

The problem is that there are shortages in other areas as well. There is a shortage of high school physics teachers. Should they get a raise as well so that MCPS can hire more of them? Some schools had a long term sub all year for physics because there are no teachers to be hired. Special Ed parents look at everything from a special education lens but there are many fires to be put out. School bus drivers need a raise as well as school psychologists as there are shortages in both of these areas [/quote]

The level and persistence of shortages are not equal across the board. SpEd and STEM should both be on different pay scales. But any time that idea comes, elementary and social science teachers flip out.[/quote]

I’m a general ed teacher with 140 students, over 30 of whom receive special education services through me within my classroom. Would I be on a different pay scale because I’m also honoring IEPs / 504s and attending many IEP meetings in addition to my general ed work?

I’m not being snarky. I’m just trying to point out how murky this water is.

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It’s not murky at all. Your position is not as hard to fill as SPED positions.[/quote]

Actually, my department hasn’t been fully staffed for 3 years because we can’t find candidates. We’ve been covering our vacancy within the department. It used to be that English, Social Studies, etc. positions were easy to fill. That’s no longer true, and most counties are facing shortages even in historically east-to-fill fields.

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Both can be true. Your school may very well have a hard time filling social science positions, but overall SPED (and STEM) positions are even harder to fill.[/quote]

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