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The IEP (a collective team process including the parents and the school) define what a child’s needs. When the school repeatedly fails to implement the IEP or identify a child’s needs from the failure of a comprehensive evaluation, the children do not receive FAPE.

$16,000 is far more than nothing. Many families could take $16,000 add to that and give their children opportunities that don’t exist in MCPS. The program would allow for school choice.

Yes, private schools don’t have to accept students similarly to colleges can exclude students. However, there are private schools that value diversity and there are private schools that specialize for students with disabilities. [/quote]
If every parent of a SN child with an IEP decided to go private here with their $16K, do you think all the private schools would be able to accommodate them?  I'm thinking not.

Do you think the cost at that private school would remain the same with a huge increase in SN students who have IEPs?  [/quote]

SN students are a diverse population of students with various needs.

I took my oldest child out of MCPS and put him in a general education private school that had a disability coordinator. He was treated with respect by students and staff. Class sizes were significantly smaller so he had more direct attention by the teacher. Many of the goals on his MCPS IEP were core foundational skills that between his daily study hall checkins with the disabilities coordinator during study hall and the direct support of teachers, he made significant progress and was independently ready for college upon graduation.

Beyond the lack of educational support and the lower expectations in MCPS, I funded my child’s private education because of severe bullying that posed a safety risk to my child in MCPS. He received cyber threats that told him to kill him self. I shared those threats to the school and nothing was done to protect my child. The climate was extremely toxic so I truly was just trying to help him literally survive high school.

School choice, is just that, a choice. It gives parents options. Perhaps it would incentivize MCPS to do better.[/quote]

*1000.  Did the exact same thing.  Right now the bureaucracy says ‘all the schools are great’ and moves on spending its 3 billion a year.  MCPS fails basic blocking and tackling.  It’s all due to their toxic me first teacher culture - no wonder they closed for 18 months![/quote]

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