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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The amount of neurodivergent kids have increased dramatically in the last 10 years."

This is bc the diagnostic criteria have dramatically loosened and changed to widely expand criteria for meeting services (and reimbursement). The original intent around this is so that anyone who meets anything will get early intervention. There are a lot of unintended consequences.

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And the standards and demands at early grade levels have increased, causing more students to struggle and therefore need intervention. It's not always that students aren't meeting age appropriate standards, it's that the standards are not age appropriate and now students are not meeting them. They also are not being taught foundational skills because the scope and sequence of instruction no longer leaves room for it.

That's a factor for an increase in students with "mild disabilities", and it's only one factor. There has been an increase and there are many factors. This just happens to be one that is in our control. Addressing it would benefit many gen ed and special ed alike. [/quote]

Yes, totally. MCPS should allow grade repeats, if this can't change, if this is a huge issue for a kid in an early grade. Otherwise they're just torturing the kid, the teachers who have to create fake documentation and try to implement supports that are just not developmentally gonna work, etc.[/quote]

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