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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I agree with all this but also think we need to recognize that with the demands on teacher, some subset have now just stopped responding to things like emails.  I've had multiple kids have this problem with multiple teachers.[b]  It often takes a month for me to get a response from the teacher, or they never respond.  The system is starting to crumble around the edges due to the burdens on the teachers.  It's a bad combination of overworked teachers, [/b]and kids who really didn't have an opportunity to scale up with gradually increasing demands on their executive function due to a combination of COVID during middle school plus the general fact that MCPS middle school isn't great.   [/quote]

Agree with all of this.  I had a sophomore who was in MS during Covid.

Agree that the demands on teachers are unreasonable and the system is crumbling.  [/quote]

I think emailing by parents is somewhat out of control. I always ask myself before I send an email, "is this something my child can take of, or if emailing was not an option for parent-teacher communication, would I call the school for this?"

I bet teachers get a lot of unnecessary emails from parents which makes it harder to respond to the ones which would necessitate a response.[/quote]

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