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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][guardian][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Math and foreign languages are the areas that are most impacted by learning gaps. Skills build from unit to unit and year to year. MCPS is ignoring this problem so some students are dropping foreign language or struggling in their current math placement.

MCPS needs to do something about this problem. Give assessments and in school tutoring services to target the students with learning losses. Sitting back and doing nothing shows lack of leadership. Universal testing is not being done because MCPS wants to hide a problem vs. fixing a problem. The Board of Ed flat out doesn’t care to require MCPS to address problems.[/quote]

Why should MCPS have to do something about this? The entire problem only affects students who decided to drop out of school during DL. Maybe it's their parents fault but still why should all the kids who actually did the work be penalized and forced to go back over this material.[/quote]

MCPS has a responsibility to teach all students. Not every student in MCPS had equal access to the technology, accommodations, and support that they needed to learn. It’s a Civil Rights issue, especially for students with disabilities.[/quote]

Every student was given a chrome book and if needed hot spot.  Mcps has never given most kids with sn everything they need and deserve.   Many of us have spent a fortune on outside help long before Covid.  This is not a Covid issue and kids have been in person since the fall.  The only kids going without are kids in virtual.  [/quote]

MCPS does have a responsibility that includes the kids that showed up during DL and did the work. They shouldn't simply be warehoused for the next 2 years so a few kids who went AWOL during DL can catch up.[/quote]

They should have made attendance and work mandatory and failed any kid who didn't do the work or show up.  Those kids were warehoused before and will be till graduation.

However, MCPS has been open since September in person so stop complaining already.[/quote]

MCPS had a legal responsibility to provide students with disabilities the services and accommodations they needed.  MCPS said that they couldn’t do so during online learning and kept students online for six quarters. As a result, students with disabilities fell behind at a disproportionate rate. MCPS promised compensatory services for students with disabilities to make up for the denial of a Free Appropriate Public Education, but has not followed through with the promise. As a result, students with disabilities are still struggling. Passing students through to the next level without the necessary skills to be at the next level  puts a student in an inappropriate placement.[/quote]

Yes, MCPS bends over backwards doing this. More the half the kids at my child's school claim to have various forms ADD and receive accommodations. At this point I'm more worried about the kids that don't have these issues since they're routinely ignored.[/quote]

Your statements are false and filled with implicit biases against students with disabilities.  Name the school and I can looking up the true percentage of students with disabilities.

For students with ADHD, MCPS rarely does a comprehensive evaluation to determine the child’s disability and needs. The IEP process is grossly flawed with how they are conducted and parents often have to pay for a private evaluation so their child can get the needed services.

MCPS has done an incredibly awful job for students with disabilities during online learning and helping students makeup for the regression.  There were no meetings to discuss compensatory services at our high school so I filed a state complaint and won.  Multiple violations of the IDEA were discovered.

MCPS needs retraining and more Special Ed staff to help students with disabilities. I am disappointed at the lack of leadership by Dr. McKnight and Gwen Mason to address the crisis.[/quote]

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