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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't just transfer a student to an emotional disabilities program. It's for kids with IEP's. If the student doesn't have an IEP, it takes months to get one - there are laws in place to prevent someone from "labeling" a child. Literally takes months even if you fast track it. My daughter had a child removed from her classroom and placed in a specialized program pretty quickly but that child already had an IEP.

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I don’t care if the parents of the violent child agree or not. MCPS has programs for children with emotional disabilities. They have great teacher-student ratios and the staff know what they’ve signed up for. The child will get an education. The school should transfer him tomorrow.[/quote][/quote]

They can make an IEP happen pretty quickly IF they want to.  It's March already.  They should have had one in place by now.[/quote]

eh....not as quick as you would think.  My kid started in PEP but then MCPS determined he no longer needed an IEP for K (ha ha ha).  So I put him in a small private.  That worked for K and 1, but by second it was obvious he needed an IEP and the private could no longer support him.  I met with the principal the week before enrolling him, shared the PEP IEP, and recent teacher incident reports.  I told the principal that my kid was going to need an IEP.  Principal said my kid needed to be observed in the classroom prior to starting the process.  I can understand that but I did want to give him and my sons teacher a heads up.

3 hours into his first day of school the principal called me and said we'd like to schedule the IEP meeting.  It took 3 months to get the IEP and then another 2 months to get placed in a self contained class.  I offered to speed things up by getting a private neuro which I was able to get done faster than the school psychologist would be able to do it.   So, the principal was on board, as the parent, I was on board, and yet it still took 5 months.  There were days that I was called into school to pick up my kid and I would beg the principal to please speed up the process.  Since the principal effectively had become my kids 1:1, I'm sure he was anxious to get my kid out of the building so he could get back to his job.

I wish there was a emergency process that could fast track everything.  But if it took 5 months for a willing family, can you imagine how long it take for a family that is in denial or cannot afford a private evaluation.[/quote]

Thanks for this. It also tracks with what I've heard from other parents, where even willing parents and a savvy administration can't typically get things moving for almost a full school year.

Imagine then all the things that can slow the process down, including unwilling parents/guardians, inexperienced administrators, and kids was are "on the bubble" in terms of what they need. [/quote]

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