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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People come here to tell horror stories.  Assuming that because of those horror stories that MCPS sucks is ridiculous.[/quote]

People express concern as their child's needs are not getting met and private therapies are expensive and not 100% effective if teachers and the school will not work with the parents.    It is easy for you to comment if you do not have a special needs child who needs some extra support.  Language delays, especially receptive delays are often ignored and then people wonder why these kids struggle so much later on.[/quote]

I have a special needs child who needs a vast amount of extra support.

Making a blanket statement about "illegal practices in Montgomery County" and teachers who have to be nudged/coerced to follow IEPS everywhere but Bethesda Elementary is elitist and makes me roll my eyes.  Bethesda Elementary is one of the county's richest.  It's great that everything is hunky dory there and they can sit on their laurels about inclusion and so forth.  My hat is genuinely off to them and the parents who can afford to live in that district.

But making a blanket statement that BE is the poo and every other elementary school in Mo Co is shit where parents have to battle for their kids basic IEPs and stand up to illegal practices is (1) bizarre (my kid is at a Title IX elementary where no battles have had to be fought) and (2) does nothing but spread fear, gloom, and  anxiety among parents with very young children who make up the majority of readers of this forum.  It's like the mothers who feel they have to share the most bloodthirsty tales of their labor and delivery -- I was cut from hip to hip!  I labored in agony for 80 hours!  The majority of us are happy and getting our IEPs enforced.[/quote]

You have not been to BE recently. We have kids from the military / NIH, apartments, a bit of everything. Increasingly diverse and not enough $$$$ given by parents to PTA.[/quote]

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