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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW - those that can afford to pull their sped kids from mcps are…. We are one of them and know so many families whose kids were pushed out. I can’t speak for families who have more profound presentations of disabilities, [b]but if your kid falls in between “very low support” and “high support” [/b]the mcps options have slimmed considerably since COVID…and getting worse. Waitlists for programs can take up to 18 months…and then they aren’t so great after all.

I always wonder when he says enrollment is declining and then asks for more money, if anyone holds a mirror up and says “it’s declining because people are taking their kids out of mcps because it’s failing…”. (Or moving out of MoCo because its both unaffordable and going downhill at the same time…)

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This!  The mushy middle are the kids losing out.  Kids that can be accommodated with a 504 usually are.  Kids that have profound disabilities are well served.  If your kid needs some support to do better, then you’re probably out of luck.  “Better” is a relative term and does not mean “best”—it really means “good enough”.  What the school districts definition of “good enoug” is, is usually very different from what parents perceive as “good enough”.

There are less resources available and they are being funneled to highly disabled kids.[/quote]

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