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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll never understand the parents who will pay for an attorney but not a tutor or therapy for their kid. It’s like they just want the satisfaction of “beating” MCPS and don’t really care about their kid’s needs. [/quote]

The parents who pay for advocates and/or attorneys do pay for tutors and therapists. In the DMV, most clinicians are out of network. I’ve been at this for 10 yrs. MCPS is cheaper than private, but to the posters comment below—vacations are a thing of the past. I think it may be slightly easier in less affluent districts; in MCPS, they do nothing until forced. In terms of equity issues, students of color get funneled into juvenile justice. ADHD is a serious disability. Got the years you have a caring teacher, be grateful. It’s not the norm. This is all pre-Covid by the way. [/quote]

Distance learning has only added another layer of inequality for students with ADHD in MCPS. Many children have regressed but very few will get services to make up a year’s worth of a lack of access to the curriculum.  Does anyone in MCPS care? No.  Teachers won’t speak up for children they know are struggling.  School administrators play dumb and loose with the ADA and IDEA. It will take a lawyer to get what your child needs or placement into private school.

Gone are the days anyone in MCPS cares about actually educating children.[/quote]

We had one teacher in ES who did speak up but it was meaningless as the special ed teacher and administrator wouldn't listen to us or the teacher (who were both on the same page).  The stuff we were both asking to do was really simple and wouldn't cost MCPS anything but they refused (i.e. send unfinished school work home).[/quote]

We had a teacher who told us off the record that she couldn’t say what she wanted to say on the teacher reports or at the IEP meeting. The principal had threatened her job and she needed a job.  She suggested that we get a private evaluation.  We did so (at the cost of about $5,000) and we had the data needed for an IEP.

Even after the IEP, we paid for private services. There were many recommendations in the private report that MCPS was unwilling to do.  The private services helped her make huge progress in about a year, especially an intensive summer reading program that helped to get her to grade level.  The teacher transferred to a different elementary school the following year.

The school system is greatly broken when it comes to educating children with disabilities.  Central office promotes people like the principal who threatened my daughter’s teacher.[/quote]

I was so thrilled to hear our old ES principal retired.  She was horrible and that's an understatement.

We spent a fortune on private services.  No regrets.  I wasn't going to wait for people who weren't willing to do their job to do it and meanwhile my child goes without what they need.  But, on the flip side, I agree with the other posters that I gave them an easy out but ultimately it was about my child and making sure they were successful.  [/quote]

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