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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would NOT recommend CCES HGC.  The teachers are hyper, rigid, and create anxiety for the children.  Over-crowded and over-taxed teachers.  We attended one year there and have finally recovered from it.  The principal cares more about updating her twitter posts than she does about the children.  [/quote]

This exactly. One of the two 4th grade teachers is a yeller, and overly inflexible. (For example: Pencil sharpeners are not allowed in class, ever. You cannot sharpen a pencil in her classroom.) A couple of her students ended up in therapy for anxiety (I'm not kidding). [b]My child is supposed to receive accommodations which were rarely provided, except in a punitive way.[/b] My child was deeply unhappy in the class but the principal did nothing about it. The principal just recently denied to her supervisors that there have been parent complaints in the past. I just learned that the teacher will unfortunately be returning in the fall.

The 5th grade teachers are much better (and not yellers!). But one is more rigid than necessary, and again we found her to be overrated. 
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As a fellow CCES parent, I beg you to please document each failure to provide accommodations or punitive provision.  As a courtesy (and in order to be seen as willing to work with the principal), you should email your first complaint to the teacher with a copy to the principal, and ask for a plan to correct the failure and/or ensure future appropriate accommodations.  If there is a second failure to provide accommodations, please document by taking the original failure, attaching the new complaint and emailing the principal and copy either the countywide 504 Supervisor (Steve_Neff@mcpsmd.org -- for 504 complaints) or the Director of the Department of Special Education Services (Gwendolyn_J_Mason@mcpsmd.org -- for IEPs).  If there is a third failure to accommodate, file an official complaint directly with the offices on your due process notice (one of which is still Steve Neff for 504s, but I'm not sure about IEP complaints)

Repeated failure to provide accommodations or using accommodations punitively is a violation of the law, and the central MCPS staffers I mentioned will be much more sensitive to a failure to resolve this at the school level than the principal ever is.  (The principal basically knows that she is top dog at the school and that you are unlikely to go outside the school with your complaints.)  I know from personal experience, talking with other parents, and talking with attorneys and advocates, that the CCES principal has a track record of being quite difficult when it comes to special ed.  I know that other parents have filed complaints against her due to her failure to respond appropriately on special ed issues and that those complaints have resulted in her superiors directing her to comply.  She does not work well with parents, but she does respond to oversight from MCPS superiors.

Please help all of us in the CCES special ed community by insisting on compliance with your child's 504 or IEP plan and filing complaints when the school fails to comply with its legal duty.  [/quote]

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