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[quote=Anonymous]Also for those advocating teaching gen ed online and prioritizing ESY services: I agree in theory EXCEPT the pool of teachers isn't coming from the same place. Gen Ed summer school is being taught by GEN ED teachers. ESY is taught (or the services are provided) by SPECIAL ED teachers. In a Home School Model (inclusion) classroom, perhaps this would work. Most kids with ESY in home school model and pull-out intervention service hours on their IEP, but most of those interventions could be provided by gen ed teachers (although for instance in the school where I teach most ESY HSM kids need a phonics pull-out and Orton-Gillingham or Really Great Reading are the approved interventions...most gen ed teachers are not trained in those).

For non-home school model ESY programs though...these are mostly discrete programs (Learning for Independence, School Community Based, Autism Services, Extensions) and a gen ed teacher is not qualified to teach those (unless they have some previous experience with teaching the alternative learning curriculum and providing necessary behavioral supports to an classroom of students with autism and intellectual disabilities).

I agree that ESY is a federal right and that the county should provide it. The solution is to pay teachers enough money to make it hard/impossible to refuse picking up those jobs, and/or increase special ed teacher salaries and extend their contract to include ESY. If that means ending summer school programs for other students to fund that, then that is what MCPS should do.

And go ahead and come at me with complaining about that; yes other students need help/support but kids with goals in critical life skills who require ESY to receive any benefit from their academic program come fall (the fundamental qualification for ESY) should be at the front of the line in terms of priority. [/quote]

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