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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tough year for my ninth grader too.  What was challenging for us was the many different rules teachers had, many of which seemed totally inconsistent with the McPS reputation of “oh, stuff is rretakable, etc.”. Examples:

Child was sick for an entire week.  Came back and trying to make up tests from 7 classes at lunch, while still recovering.  One teacher had a sjngle day for test makeup.  Kid missed it and was given a zero on the test, no retake.

Lots of teachers with No ippprtunity for late turn in of Hw, even with a 504.  If you forget to turn it in at start of class, it’s a zero.

A couple of teachers who didn’t put grades into gradebook until day before interim grades.  Realized then that she didn’t have an important assignment my kid thought he had turned in, but no chance to turn in late because it’s already interim deadline.

One teacher who was just …. Mean and arbitrary.  A bunch of kids dropped class and a bunch of parents have complained and I think teacher is in a disciplinary process but it made for a really hard year with a lot of mental energy expended trying to avoid minimize conflict with teacher and figure out their expectations.

In general, I think McPS is pretty good but it is really a lot to deal with…
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Yes! Yes! All of this! You captured it. 
If you have a kid with executive functioning issues, you are screwed. My kid has a 504 and had all of these same experiences. 
I have friend with no complaints bc their kids are self sufficient in this way. I get it, I have one of those too. But my other kid is not like that. 
Get an EF coach. Seriously best decision we made. But again this relies on parents to put in the time to help with content and pay for external resources. [/quote]

Have you kid schedule to take the Resource class.  Then they can get help with this.[/quote]

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