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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS routinely denies students an evaluation for disabilities when a private evaluation identified a disability. It’s a system designed to ignore problems students are having with accessing the curriculum and basic skills. Staff pass students from grade to grade without addressing student needs. Even when a child has a 504 plan or IEP, schools spend hours at meetings just to not follow through with implementation.

Telling lies of omission, ignoring the data for the child, and failing to implement 504 plans and IEPs are all examples of unethical practices by MCPS. [/quote]

With the 300% increase over the past decade in these private diagnoses that anyone can buy for $5k to $10k it isn't really surprising.[/quote]

And who do you think has $5K to $10K to pay for a “fake” evaluation?

MCPS labeled my child with the wrong disability which was corrected when I had him fully evaluated by a PhD neuropsychologist. Worth the money to have a road map for his needs. We used the private evaluation to fix his IEP which the school didn’t implement. The only value of the private evaluation was to guide us to pay for private services because that’s what my child needed when the IEP was not implemented.[/quote]

If the PR people MCPS hired are the ones on this site blaming everything on the people who are unhappy by saying: "They're racist, or they're culture warriors, or they're paying for "fake" outside evaluations," etc. then choose another tactic. Ask any MCPS employee. All the people I know who are complaining are justified. The system is designed to be miserly about accommodations and to make it exceedingly difficult for anyone to appeal, get a COSA, get an IEP, you name it. Dr. McKnight has surrounded herself with "yes" people who tell her she is doing a good job, when she would be better off owning her mistakes and hearing the truth. The principals and teachers are still waiting for her to acknowledge that they gave her a vote of no confidence and to hear how she plans to improve her relationship with her own (non Central) staff. She has repairing to do with staff in Central Office too, at least those who were not her personal picks.[/quote]

since there's 3X more kids with issues just in the last decade, especially at more affluent schools, they just don't have the resources to support everyone like they used to[/quote]

Are you innumerate?  They spend nearly  5 billion - 3.1 maintenance and 1.6 operating - a year.  This has very little to do with resources unfortunately and much more to do with culture.  Classic Moco response - spend more money on bureaucracy.[/quote]

That's aside the point there is a well documented and massive increase in "diagnosed" cases in upper middle class schools over the past decade which strains there ability to support people with actual problems.[/quote]

Is not easy and definitely not cheep to get a diagnosis and an IEP or 504 plan. Have you ever attended a MCPS team meeting?

Parents - record all the meetings so you can provide the recording to the MSDE. Be prepared so you have proof of the lies you were told in the process.[/quote]

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