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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not a special education teacher but a general education teacher. From what I have seen, no one is trying to lie and hide things on purpose. The special education team at my school genuinely cares about kids and advocates for them. It just becomes impossible sometimes to provide all the supports that some students need. The staff is overwhelmed. Some iep meetings take several hours and that is just for one student. Some parents can also be unreasonable and unrealistic. Lawsuits happen frequently and cause additional stress along with an extra deluge of paperwork. [/quote]

Our best teacher which was only one year tried hard to advocate for our child and was denied at every point.   She was fantastic and the only one who took the time to get our kid.  The special education teacher did not get the issues at all.  What may seem unreasonable to you may not be and just unrealistic for you do you call it unreasonable.  Kids can be complex but it’s the kids who are quiet and not demanding who are often the ones who need the most help who get ignored.  [/quote]

Classroom sizes need to be smaller. It is impossible to give all students the attention they need given standard class sizes in MCPS. And for a general education teacher, all kids need attention and support to thrive whether they are high performing, low performing, special needs or not, quiet or outgoing. Every single child in the classroom needs/wants attention. This means the teacher only has a limited amount of time to devote to students with IEPs which is often difficult for some parents to understand. HS classes can often be 30-35 students. [/quote]

Class size is a political issue that goes beyond MCPS.  The county keeps authorizing more and more development without making plans for corresponding increases in infrastructure and public services. More taxpayers but not more services for them. Horrendous traffic, overcrowded metro, class size, etc. all stem from here. The county's demographer is either a biggest moron or biggest hypocrite on the public payroll. I've seen assessment of impact for one of developments in whitman pyramid and they claimed that 400+ residential units will only contribute 20-30 more students to the local ES. People rent in this cluster to get their kids into public schools, but the county uses some 1960s methodology that says that SFH typically send kids to schools, and those who live in apartments are seniors or single young professionals...  Honestly, the more i live in MoCo the less democrat I am becoming. [/quote]

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