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[quote=Anonymous]While I don't think all schools in MCPS have bad special needs practices, I think making a blanket statement that the majority of families are happy is completely ignorant.
What we've heard from several advocates is that the less wealthy schools (like yours) are actually MUCH better at handing out IEPs than those in the green zone. In the green zone, the attitude tends to be that the parents can afford to pay for private services so why not make them do so? That way they save money for schools like yours.

You're also clearly not very familiar with Bethesda. Bethesda Elementary is probably the most socio-economically diverse among the Bethesda schools and probably has the highest FARMS rate in Bethesda.

Our own experiences and those of the other SN parents I know who live in our part of the county are very consistent with the stories we're reading on DCUM. Actually, you're lucky you live where you do and everything is hunky dory but don't patronize the rest of us who have kids who have just as serious special needs or greater than your child.

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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][/quote]

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