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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]Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster.  Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality.  How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county?  The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools.  The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking.  MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?[/quote]

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.  [/quote]

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.[/quote]

It's not demographics.  Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

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I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).[/quote]

Exactly, at our school[b] if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention[/b].[/quote]

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child.  Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified).  I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.  [/quote]

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep.  It wasn’t with the paper it was written on.  The excuse was they had kids with more needs.  We paid a fortune privately for therapies.  [/quote]
what do you expect? The excuse? Did you ever stop to think that maybe there [i]are[/i] kids with more needs in your kid's class(es)? The teachers have to teach the class [b]then they have to do the extra support for all the kids with IEPs in their class[/b]. [/quote]

Yes, they are supposed to give the extra support to [b]ALL[/b] the kids with IEPs.  And, could be a new teacher that doesn't know how; could be an old teacher who doesn't believe IEPs are real; could be a long-term sub, who doesn't know the law, doesn't understand what they are supposed to do and are completely overwhelmed.  Or some other reason. [/quote]

Yes, but since there are 3X more kids with these IEPs today than a decade ago and funding has remained constant there is only so much to go around. In our W feeder something like 80% of the kids require this extra support. In fact, if you don't have an IEP you are basically ignored today.[/quote]

This!  IEP/504 plan numbers have gone up, and the number of people becoming teachers and specialist who work in school has gone down. Further, teacher education programs have not changed enough to provide their students with all the skills they need to be equipped for working in a classroom by themselves.
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