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Anonymous wrote:Any recommendations for someone who helps you figure our the resources available for my child? He has ADHD and is now is newly diagnosed as on the spectrum but high functioning and at grade level academically.

Thank you so much. I posted in special needs as well.

Do not do it. If you win the BOE will Sue you.

What? Can you cite an example of the Board of Ed suing a parent over services for a disabled child?

This person is just a troll. The BOE is sued so much I doubt they have time to do anything but defend themselves.

Be mentally prepared for the ordeal, since the process will most likely take a full year. MCPS seems to only provide services to parents who fight for it. I would recommend getting your child tested, and yes, I would get an attorney/advocate (not just an advocate). MCPS Principals and staff at certain schools will literally do everything in their power to delay and dissuade you from getting services. Ignore it all and get your child independently medically evaluated / diagnosed as soon as possible, but beware - there are some outfits that are outright dangerous. Seek a second opinion of any doctor trying to put your child on meds after the first few visits or right-away imply it's parenting issue, etc. Once a doctor like that sinks their hooks into your kid, you'll have a tougher time getting MCPS services. TTLC is a good outfit, judicious on meds, and they're honest with diagnoses - so would do testing / treatment there, if you can. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll never understand the parents who will pay for an attorney but not a tutor or therapy for their kid. It’s like they just want the satisfaction of “beating” MCPS and don’t really care about their kid’s needs.

The parents who pay for advocates and/or attorneys do pay for tutors and therapists. In the DMV, most clinicians are out of network. I’ve been at this for 10 yrs. MCPS is cheaper than private, but to the posters comment below—vacations are a thing of the past. I think it may be slightly easier in less affluent districts; in MCPS, they do nothing until forced. In terms of equity issues, students of color get funneled into juvenile justice. ADHD is a serious disability. Got the years you have a caring teacher, be grateful. It’s not the norm. This is all pre-Covid by the way.

Distance learning has only added another layer of inequality for students with ADHD in MCPS. Many children have regressed but very few will get services to make up a year’s worth of a lack of access to the curriculum. Does anyone in MCPS care? No. Teachers won’t speak up for children they know are struggling. School administrators play dumb and loose with the ADA and IDEA. It will take a lawyer to get what your child needs or placement into private school.

Gone are the days anyone in MCPS cares about actually educating children.

We had one teacher in ES who did speak up but it was meaningless as the special ed teacher and administrator wouldn't listen to us or the teacher (who were both on the same page). The stuff we were both asking to do was really simple and wouldn't cost MCPS anything but they refused (i.e. send unfinished school work home).

We had a teacher who told us off the record that she couldn’t say what she wanted to say on the teacher reports or at the IEP meeting. The principal had threatened her job and she needed a job. She suggested that we get a private evaluation. We did so (at the cost of about $5,000) and we had the data needed for an IEP.

Even after the IEP, we paid for private services. There were many recommendations in the private report that MCPS was unwilling to do. The private services helped her make huge progress in about a year, especially an intensive summer reading program that helped to get her to grade level. The teacher transferred to a different elementary school the following year.

The school system is greatly broken when it comes to educating children with disabilities. Central office promotes people like the principal who threatened my daughter’s teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any recommendations for someone who helps you figure our the resources available for my child? He has ADHD and is now is newly diagnosed as on the spectrum but high functioning and at grade level academically.

Thank you so much. I posted in special needs as well.

Do not do it. If you win the BOE will Sue you.

What? Can you cite an example of the Board of Ed suing a parent over services for a disabled child?

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Anonymous wrote:What do they do or teach on ESY? Academic from prior school year or next school year, or therapies on needs? My child has IEP, and he was never approved for ESY. Well, I already signed him up for multiple summer camps in person, so it seems like he will miss out ESY even he is qualified this year.

From what I've seen, ESY is more about keeping the kid familiar with school and its routines.

Anonymous wrote:What do they do or teach on ESY? Academic from prior school year or next school year, or therapies on needs? My child has IEP, and he was never approved for ESY. Well, I already signed him up for multiple summer camps in person, so it seems like he will miss out ESY even he is qualified this year.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll never understand the parents who will pay for an attorney but not a tutor or therapy for their kid. It’s like they just want the satisfaction of “beating” MCPS and don’t really care about their kid’s needs.

The parents who pay for advocates and/or attorneys do pay for tutors and therapists. In the DMV, most clinicians are out of network. I’ve been at this for 10 yrs. MCPS is cheaper than private, but to the posters comment below—vacations are a thing of the past. I think it may be slightly easier in less affluent districts; in MCPS, they do nothing until forced. In terms of equity issues, students of color get funneled into juvenile justice. ADHD is a serious disability. Got the years you have a caring teacher, be grateful. It’s not the norm. This is all pre-Covid by the way.

Distance learning has only added another layer of inequality for students with ADHD in MCPS. Many children have regressed but very few will get services to make up a year’s worth of a lack of access to the curriculum. Does anyone in MCPS care? No. Teachers won’t speak up for children they know are struggling. School administrators play dumb and loose with the ADA and IDEA. It will take a lawyer to get what your child needs or placement into private school.

Gone are the days anyone in MCPS cares about actually educating children.

We had one teacher in ES who did speak up but it was meaningless as the special ed teacher and administrator wouldn't listen to us or the teacher (who were both on the same page). The stuff we were both asking to do was really simple and wouldn't cost MCPS anything but they refused (i.e. send unfinished school work home).

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Anonymous wrote:At today’s BOE meeting there was an explanation by MCPS that all children with IEPs and who didn’t make progress with their goals and objectives that they will receive Extended Year Services. What about the children who suffered this year because they have a disability but they couldn’t access the curriculum because their 504 accommodations were not being provided? What about the children with disabilities that have been denied IEPs and 504s but they have fallen off a cliff in digital learning?

There has been no discussion with the BOE about how ALL children with disabilities who couldn’t access the curriculum this year will receive compensatory services.

Lol...my kid has qualified for ESY for years. Trust me when I say your kid will NOT be missing anything if they attend or don’t attend. 3hrs/day for 4 weeks. Teachers are not special Ed teachers. They are not familiar with your child’s IEP. They have no incentive to read it.

Many school districts provide ESY funding which parents can use to fund actual learning to keep their kid from regressing over the summer. Since MCPS offers ESY, they don’t offer funding. There are great summer programs out there for kids that need help. Sadly a lot of them will only take school funding which of course we don’t get. I can’t even pay for the really good ESY programs because I am private pay and they don’t accept that type of funding.

What do they do or teach on ESY? Academic from prior school year or next school year, or therapies on needs? My child has IEP, and he was never approved for ESY. Well, I already signed him up for multiple summer camps in person, so it seems like he will miss out ESY even he is qualified this year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll never understand the parents who will pay for an attorney but not a tutor or therapy for their kid. It’s like they just want the satisfaction of “beating” MCPS and don’t really care about their kid’s needs.

The parents who pay for advocates and/or attorneys do pay for tutors and therapists. In the DMV, most clinicians are out of network. I’ve been at this for 10 yrs. MCPS is cheaper than private, but to the posters comment below—vacations are a thing of the past. I think it may be slightly easier in less affluent districts; in MCPS, they do nothing until forced. In terms of equity issues, students of color get funneled into juvenile justice. ADHD is a serious disability. Got the years you have a caring teacher, be grateful. It’s not the norm. This is all pre-Covid by the way.

Distance learning has only added another layer of inequality for students with ADHD in MCPS. Many children have regressed but very few will get services to make up a year’s worth of a lack of access to the curriculum. Does anyone in MCPS care? No. Teachers won’t speak up for children they know are struggling. School administrators play dumb and loose with the ADA and IDEA. It will take a lawyer to get what your child needs or placement into private school.

Gone are the days anyone in MCPS cares about actually educating children.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At today’s BOE meeting there was an explanation by MCPS that all children with IEPs and who didn’t make progress with their goals and objectives that they will receive Extended Year Services. What about the children who suffered this year because they have a disability but they couldn’t access the curriculum because their 504 accommodations were not being provided? What about the children with disabilities that have been denied IEPs and 504s but they have fallen off a cliff in digital learning?

There has been no discussion with the BOE about how ALL children with disabilities who couldn’t access the curriculum this year will receive compensatory services.

Lol...my kid has qualified for ESY for years. Trust me when I say your kid will NOT be missing anything if they attend or don’t attend. 3hrs/day for 4 weeks. Teachers are not special Ed teachers. They are not familiar with your child’s IEP. They have no incentive to read it.

Many school districts provide ESY funding which parents can use to fund actual learning to keep their kid from regressing over the summer. Since MCPS offers ESY, they don’t offer funding. There are great summer programs out there for kids that need help. Sadly a lot of them will only take school funding which of course we don’t get. I can’t even pay for the really good ESY programs because I am private pay and they don’t accept that type of funding.

What do they do or teach on ESY? Academic from prior school year or next school year, or therapies on needs? My child has IEP, and he was never approved for ESY. Well, I already signed him up for multiple summer camps in person, so it seems like he will miss out ESY even he is qualified this year.

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Anonymous wrote:PP that’s what mcps wants. For you to pay for the services.

To other poster, yes we put for all. Advocate and tutor and therapy. Not to mention the distress associated with each IEP meeting and having to fight for services.

This is a Civil Rights problem in MCPS. Children with disabilities need appropriate special education and/or related services to have equal access to the curriculum. Ignoring problems, hiding data in Canvas, lying to parents regarding the law and their rights, not performing comprehensive evaluations, and not providing children the special education and related services that are on IEPs and 504 plans unequally impact children whose families do not have the financial means to get their children the help they legally deserve.

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Anonymous wrote:At today’s BOE meeting there was an explanation by MCPS that all children with IEPs and who didn’t make progress with their goals and objectives that they will receive Extended Year Services. What about the children who suffered this year because they have a disability but they couldn’t access the curriculum because their 504 accommodations were not being provided? What about the children with disabilities that have been denied IEPs and 504s but they have fallen off a cliff in digital learning?

There has been no discussion with the BOE about how ALL children with disabilities who couldn’t access the curriculum this year will receive compensatory services.

Lol...my kid has qualified for ESY for years. Trust me when I say your kid will NOT be missing anything if they attend or don’t attend. 3hrs/day for 4 weeks. Teachers are not special Ed teachers. They are not familiar with your child’s IEP. They have no incentive to read it.

Many school districts provide ESY funding which parents can use to fund actual learning to keep their kid from regressing over the summer. Since MCPS offers ESY, they don’t offer funding. There are great summer programs out there for kids that need help. Sadly a lot of them will only take school funding which of course we don’t get. I can’t even pay for the really good ESY programs because I am private pay and they don’t accept that type of funding.

Anonymous wrote:At today’s BOE meeting there was an explanation by MCPS that all children with IEPs and who didn’t make progress with their goals and objectives that they will receive Extended Year Services. What about the children who suffered this year because they have a disability but they couldn’t access the curriculum because their 504 accommodations were not being provided? What about the children with disabilities that have been denied IEPs and 504s but they have fallen off a cliff in digital learning?

There has been no discussion with the BOE about how ALL children with disabilities who couldn’t access the curriculum this year will receive compensatory services.

Anonymous wrote:PP that’s what mcps wants. For you to pay for the services.

To other poster, yes we put for all. Advocate and tutor and therapy. Not to mention the distress associated with each IEP meeting and having to fight for services.