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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]some parents care, some don't. it's not really an issue with MCPS. it's an issue w/ families' involvement (or lack thereof)[/quote]
Some parents have the agency to be involved, both with job flexibility and income.[/quote]

Will agree the earlier poster is living in a bubble. Not everyone has the ability or flexibility to do this. In fact, many wealthier families just outsource it even which others can't even consider.[/quote]

Yes, the PP is missing the point and living in an elitist bubble, but I would argue something more: attributing outcomes to "lack of parental involvement" misses the point of public education in the United States. Our public education system was designed to provide opportunities to ALL kids. If you decide a child is not worthy of investment because you don't approve of their parents, or don't think their parents are wealthy enough to deserve for their child to have opportunities, you are making a fundamentaly unAmerican argument. [/quote]

The same argument can be made about educational opportunities for students with disabilities in MCPS, especially in W schools. MCPS drags its feet and often refuses to evaluate students with disabilities. So parents with means and health insurance pay for private comprehensive evaluations to identify a child’s disabilities. However, there seems to constantly be the restraint that supports are only offered in certain classes but not all, despite a student’s abilities and needs. Wealthy parents fill in the shortfalls of MCPS with private services to help their child when services don’t exist or they are not consistently implemented in school.

As a W parent, I have often felt the disproportionate offerings for my child with special needs was due to a stereotype of our zip code versus a climate of equal opportunities for students with disabilities. I’ve often wondered if we lived in a Title I school if my child would have more opportunities because of the extra services and smaller class sizes. [/quote]

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