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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because as the parent of a young special needs child we are not only exhausted all the time, we have spent nearly every penny and then some on private services to help our child.  There is nothing left to give, not the time, energy or money.

Not to mention many special Ed students end up as single family households.  Not all, so please don't jump down my throat. But the reality is, if you have money, you go private and get what your child needs. And if you don't have money, many of cannot add even one more thing to our plate. So we get what we get and try not to get to upset[/quote]

+1 Public school families do not have unlimited financial resources. To legally fight MCPS, an entity with unlimited funds for legal fights, parents weigh the cost  with the benefits. Often, the best course of action is paying for private services for our children.

It’s disgusting that MCPS doesn’t focus on the needs of the child. They fight to deny services and then when families prevail, MCPS struggles systemwide to implement IEPs.

Free routes for recourse is filing a state complaint or an OCR complaint. It doesn’t take a lawyer. [/quote]

THe problem is with the massive 3X proliferation in private diagnosis that has plagued the upper-middle-class schools this past decade MCPS just doesn't have the resources to do this even if they wanted to. Something like 80% of my child's W feeder now has a 504 or IEP. They just can't keep up. Their budget is from the days when there were maybe 1 in30 kids not 25/30.[/quote]

Please site your source because I believe you are spreading a false claim based on your personal implicit biases.

There’s no justification for a public school system to break the law and discriminate children with disabilities. That’s why there are Civil Rights Laws to protect students with disabilities.[/quote]

There was an article in the NYT about this which was posted here a week or two agon. [/quote]

Yes, the article documented the massive increase in private diagnosis at upper middle class schools over the past decade and their impact on student services.[/quote]

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