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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was a tough one because mcps doesn't support students. 
It shouldn't have been tough.
Spend your summer mentally and emotionally ally preparing for 3 worse years.
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MCPS supports students. MCPS doesn't coddle students. Teach your kid self-advocacy skills.[/quote]

Not all children are capable of learning to advocate for themselves but thank you for reinforcing the earlier post about mcps being a great place for students who don't need any help. [/quote]

I respectfully disagree as the parent of a SN child.  Unless they are acutely disabled every child can learn to advocate for themselves.

I’m not sure why anything a child can’t do is automatically the schools issue to fix and should be built into the curriculum.  When our child has an issue that requires self-advocacy we rehearse it at home, repeatedly, and give feedback so she can do better.  If she is writing an email we help her think through how to identify a specific ask and articulate it respectfully and clearly.

It took practice and work and now she is good at it.  You are right it doesn’t come without effort but parents can and should intervene when necessary.[/quote]

There's no greater enemy to special needs parents than other special needs parents whos kids don't have problems learning things because they get out infront of an ignorant crowd and chant how it's not really a disability and no one should really help them.

Congratulations that your kid can do The Thing.
My kid had poor coordination but we worked on balance so now they do better.
That doesn't mean that ANOTHER, totally DIFFERENT child with coordination disability is able to learn to do better. The cause of their disability may be different.

My neighbor sat around chastising (behind their back) another parent who's autistic child cursed.
"Well *my* larlo is autistic and *he* never curses! What terrible parents they must be tsk tsk"
A few years later I found out that the larlo in question also had tuerrets syndrome in addition to the autism. "

If YOU don't understand how self advocacy is a huge IEP goal exactly because it makes an enormous impact on a child's education  and a child with a disability may not be able to translate what is spoken about at home to be put I to practice in the classroom - that's your problem.

If you can parent YOUR child oit of their "disability " I would have to guess YOUR child probably doesn't really have any special needs. You just paid for a doctor to recommend  extra time.

Some of our children actually have true disabilities that parenting doesn't fix.
"MY larlo [/quote]

I want to apologize as the previous poster because I think my post came off wrong.  There are kids that have more serious deficits in this area that require more assistance.  MCPS, like many schools is not great at meeting those needs for a whole host of reasons.[/quote]

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