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Special needs pretty much sucks everywhere but MCPS is more understaffed. Special needs instructors, para educators, and the positions that support kids with special needs are gone now. ESL and salary increases for MCPS staff have absorbed what little there was available in the past. At our school the one special needs teacher end up doing more general work -reading and math assessments for compacted math, staff development, covering when a teacher has a meeting- then working with the special needs kids. She's as frustrated as the parents but this is MCPS - no accountability. [/quote]

I would have to disagree with some of this. It very much depends on the school you attend. I know there are schools with "autism classrooms" and others where special needs are integrated into the regular classrooms, with specialist teachers on hand to help out. Its true that in some schools there is barely anything going on, but its not true of EVERY school.

Really if you have need for certain resources you need to call the schools directly or ask during a tour what is available and how it is metered out.[/quote]

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