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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

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I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

what do you expect? The excuse? Did you ever stop to think that maybe there are kids with more needs in your kid's class(es)? The teachers have to teach the class then they have to do the extra support for all the kids with IEPs in their class.

Yes, they are supposed to give the extra support to ALL the kids with IEPs. And, could be a new teacher that doesn't know how; could be an old teacher who doesn't believe IEPs are real; could be a long-term sub, who doesn't know the law, doesn't understand what they are supposed to do and are completely overwhelmed. Or some other reason.

Yes, but since there are 3X more kids with these IEPs today than a decade ago and funding has remained constant there is only so much to go around. In our W feeder something like 80% of the kids require this extra support. In fact, if you don't have an IEP you are basically ignored today.

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

“MCPS” doesn’t delete posts on a private forum they don’t own or moderate. Remove your tinfoil hat. It’s not a good look.

Someone is definitely deleting posts critical of MCPS. It may not be an MCPS employee, but a contractor? DCUMS?

Does MCPS pay any ad revenue or have a reviewer on DCUMS?

At least four out of every five posts on this forum are critical of MCPS. Including this thread right here.

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

“MCPS” doesn’t delete posts on a private forum they don’t own or moderate. Remove your tinfoil hat. It’s not a good look.

Someone is definitely deleting posts critical of MCPS. It may not be an MCPS employee, but a contractor? DCUMS?

Does MCPS pay any ad revenue or have a reviewer on DCUMS?

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

Watch out. Mcps is closely monitoring this forum and deleting posts like mad, even entire threads are gone. If they find out who you are your kid is in danger.

“MCPS” doesn’t delete posts on a private forum they don’t own or moderate. Remove your tinfoil hat. It’s not a good look.

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

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I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

what do you expect? The excuse? Did you ever stop to think that maybe there are kids with more needs in your kid's class(es)? The teachers have to teach the class then they have to do the extra support for all the kids with IEPs in their class.

Yes, they are supposed to give the extra support to ALL the kids with IEPs. And, could be a new teacher that doesn't know how; could be an old teacher who doesn't believe IEPs are real; could be a long-term sub, who doesn't know the law, doesn't understand what they are supposed to do and are completely overwhelmed. Or some other reason.

Yes, but since there are 3X more kids with these IEPs today than a decade ago and funding has remained constant there is only so much to go around. In our W feeder something like 80% of the kids require this extra support. In fact, if you don't have an IEP you are basically ignored today.

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

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I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

what do you expect? The excuse? Did you ever stop to think that maybe there are kids with more needs in your kid's class(es)? The teachers have to teach the class then they have to do the extra support for all the kids with IEPs in their class.

Yes, they are supposed to give the extra support to ALL the kids with IEPs. And, could be a new teacher that doesn't know how; could be an old teacher who doesn't believe IEPs are real; could be a long-term sub, who doesn't know the law, doesn't understand what they are supposed to do and are completely overwhelmed. Or some other reason.

Anonymous wrote:I have worked for MCPS for a long time. I don't think MCPS has changed, but our county demographics certainly have changed. We have more newcomers with limited to no English language. We have much higher rates of poverty and trauma. Parents who are struggling to keep roofs over their heads, substance abuse, domestic violence, etc. All of these societal problems are spilling into our school buildings and quite frankly, staff are overwhelmed. It's very, very challenging to try and teach or run a building when you have a few kids in each grade-level who are consistently occupying 95% of your bandwidth. These kids didn't ask to be born into crappy conditions but they're in our schools and are having a really tough time despite the best efforts by staff to support their SEL needs.
We have to be honest with ourselves - until the parents (society) gets in a better place, we're going to continue to see the effects in our buildings. The curriculum standards have become harder with CCSS but we've lowered our expectations. Students know that there aren't any real consequences. We don't suspend students because of the school to prison pipeline. Trust me when I tell you, there are kids I would have advocated for suspension years ago but now knowing what they'd do at home, I'd rather them be safe and fed in our building. Admin are basically spending any free moment covering duties, dealing with behavior issues, etc. This gets in the way of them being able to get into classrooms to observe actual teaching and instruction.
Personally, I'm tired of schools and MCPS being blamed for all of the problems that we've created as a society. We aren't private schools - we take whoever comes to enroll and we do the best that we can with limited staff and training in trauma-informed practices.

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

MCPS would rather fight families before doing what it takes to implement the IEPs. Discrimination against students with disabilities is very real in MCPS and Dr. McKnight nor Diana Wyles have a plan to fill the vacancies or to improve Special Education in MCPS.

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No, its not. There is a severe shortage of special ed teachers nationwide, not just in Montgomery County. Many special ed teacher positions this year are filled with long term subs and they are not qualified nor able to teach their students appropriately.

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Anonymous wrote:We need more teachers and smaller class sizes. And student accountability.

if parents don’t value work and education the kids won’t no matter how much you spend on education . A school of poor Pakistani immigrants with $1000 spent per pupil will out perform a baltimore city school that spent $75000 per pupil

That’s not true. John R Lewis High School (formerly Robert E Lee) in FCPS is a very poor performing school and they probably have more poor Pakistani, Afghan, Arab, and Indian immigrants than any other school in the region does. Poverty is a huge indicator.

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Anonymous wrote:We need more teachers and smaller class sizes. And student accountability.

if parents don’t value work and education the kids won’t no matter how much you spend on education . A school of poor Pakistani immigrants with $1000 spent per pupil will out perform a baltimore city school that spent $75000 per pupil

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline.

So you think a poorer, browner system will produce like a richer white one if only they had a better curriculum? Show us one anywhere in the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

what do you expect? The excuse? Did you ever stop to think that maybe there are kids with more needs in your kid's class(es)? The teachers have to teach the class then they have to do the extra support for all the kids with IEPs in their class.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.

what do you expect? The excuse? Did you ever stop to think that maybe there are kids with more needs in your kid's class(es)? The teachers have to teach the class then they have to do the extra support for all the kids with IEPs in their class.

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Anonymous wrote:Good discussion going on the local sub reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MontgomeryCountyMD/comments/102jg8a/parents_of_mcps_students_do_you_guys_have_a/

MCPS sound like an absolute disaster. Zero accountability. Zero standards. Rapid decline of quality. How long until people with money stop moving to this county to flee all of the progressivism ruining the schools and county? The only reason property values maintained value in MoCo was always because of the schools. The discussion going on now with messages from insiders is truly shocking. MoCo looks like it is in rapid decline and once the schools go, what reason will there be to stay?

So completely and thoroughly f'ed up. MCPS's been in rapid decline for many years. But if you say anything, then you are a racist. God help us.

LOL, I love these crocodile tears. There is ABSOLUTELY NO DECLINE. What has changed are the demographics of the county. You may have noticed. This means some things are different, but you can get a better education today than in the past.

It's not demographics. Its the curriculum, teaching style and no homework... all things we had prior to the decline

.

I think it is both. Changing demographics, increased identification of special needs, and unfunded federal mandates that trickled down to individual school budgets created a trifecta of pain for MCPS that has led to decreased enrichment opportunities (tighter sports budgets, fewer field trips, fewer learning materials--like for science labs just to note a few).

Exactly, at our school if you aren't special needs or ESOL good luck getting any attention.

Pretty sure you don't have a special ed child. Special Ed is a disaster, even discrete classrooms are overcrowded and don't have qualified teachers (long term subs in place since the start of the school year count as a warm body, and count towards the superintendent saying "we are 99% staffed," but not as qualified). I promise you, as the exhausted parent of 2 special ed children, they are not getting any attention.

My kid got zero attention or support despite an iep. It wasn’t with the paper it was written on. The excuse was they had kids with more needs. We paid a fortune privately for therapies.