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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b]It just becomes impossible sometimes to provide all the supports that some students need. [/b]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]

This is like saying it's impossible for me to stop at all stop signs and red lights. It slows me down, increases gas consumption, wears out brake pads.  Sped is governed by a federal law. It's literally your school's admin's job to request the resources. So why bother them with that, right, it's not nice to force the admin to their job and the central to do their job? Why make noise to all these important people who allocate budgets. Instead, in your head you call it "it just becomes impossible" and poof, it's just an amorphous concept. Nobody to blame, it's just how it is.  No, dude, no.

Reminds me how they said about Vietnam war in the end "Mistakes were made". Decision makers f'ed up big time, costing lives and resources, hiding their failures, etc...  Buck stops somewhere, always. You're enabling people who get paid to allocate resources by pretending that no big deal is happening here.
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SPED and FAPE are federal laws, sure. But they don't send the funding to make it happen. Rock, meet Hard Place.[/quote]

So you’re saying there’s a law that costs organizations money in order to comply it with it? I’m shocked.

Do you similarly complain about the ADA? Accounting requirements for businesses? Car seat laws impacting families?

Besides, the money ultimately comes from (roughly) the same places. Does it really matter whether the taxes were collected at the local, state, or federal level?[/quote]

There are not enough people in schools to do all the work required by these laws. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Special education already takes up at least 50% of the budget maybe more. No one is going to work 20 hours a day just because there are laws in place. Instead they will quit which is what ends up happening.[/quote]

So you’re saying MCPS needs a larger budget. Sure. But I don’t see why that would need to come from federal tax dollars as opposed to state/local tax dollars.

And no, special education expenses [url=https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/departments/budget/fy2024-recommended/appendix-d.pdf]are nowhere near 50%[/url]. What in the world gave you that idea?
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Mcps has plenty of money.  They need to cut out the wasteful spending. [/quote]
Time to cut Football. And Bocce.[/quote]

Football is a money maker for schools.  Boccee was pathetic.  Never saw one kit.  However, we don't need to be funding things like the kid museum and other non-profits.[/quote]

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