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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is MCPS required to provide medical care to students even outside school hours?  I think we're asking too much from MCPS.[/quote]

+1 this should really be funded outside of the MCPS budget. The county has mental health services, they should provide it.[/quote]

Why does this matter? 
County funds are country funds.

Schools system is the best way to serve children. [/quote]
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It matters because the MCPS budget should focus on providing educational services. [/b]The county funds things that aren't educational, including school nurses by the way.[/quote]

This.  Taylor is doing the right thing here.  [/quote]

Yes. Kids need access to these services but the oversight/budget-line should belong to the county.  County can fund and manage social services for kids and even keep the providers housed in schools.  MCPS central office needs to focus on managing the educational needs of the kids, which they are qualified to do. County supervisors with experience managing social services need to oversee this.  School counselors are supposed to more focus on things like class registration, basic wellness programs, small conflicts, buddy lunch programs and —large item- overseeing 504 plans.  These positions make sense as school based positions. Actual social workers, speech therapists, therapists etc should be part of the medical/therapeutic/social services options run by the county and overseen by the county. It makes no sense for MCPS to run/administer these services since they are not educational services and not what school administrators have expertise in. MCPS should partner with the county for these services so the county can run them and MCPS can help making sure kids have logistical access by housing these programs at schools. [/quote]

The county is not responsible to provide support in schools and the county doesn't have enough social workers, and others to do those jobs as the county pays very poorly so many social workers move on to higher paying jobs after 5-10 years or become SAHP as it doesn't pay to work.[/quote]

The county provides school nurses[/quote]

Most schools have techs and not nurses.  The county does not have enough social workers and other staff and either way that’s just a way to hide MCPS funds.  Why don’t we pull out all supports for all kids?[/quote]

We have school counselors for all kids. From what I can gather these counselors are in place because the regular counselors don't speak Spanish. They should hire bilingual counselors for schools with large Spanish speaking populations. And I'm curious what they do for kids that speak other languages like indigenous languages or Amharic[/quote]

The EML counselors are hired with language competencies, who are then placed in schools with populations they can specifically support, e.g., a Dari-speaking counselor for schools with larger populations of families who speak Dari. These language and cultural competencies are exactly why we need EML counselors.[/quote]

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