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Special Ed Parents Protest $3.17 Per Gallon Last Week Claim BOE and Weast Are Indifferent to Childrens’ Needs $3.07 Per Gallon YOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER! Arts.........................11 Legal Notices........L-1 Calendar................15 Opinion ....................4 Classifieds .............17 Real Estate ..............5 Tax Sale Federation ...............6 Reflections...............2 Fun Page............L-24 Seniors ....................3 Learning Links .......13 Sports ....................22 Inside! Celebrating our 152nd year www.thesentinel.com Vol. 152, No. 43 • 25¢ SINCE 1855 May 24 - May 30, 2007 TODAY’S GAS PRICE Special Ed Parents Protest $3.17 per gallon Last Week Claim BOE and Weast are indifferent to childrens’ needs $3.07 per gallon A month ago By Drew Pierson $2.93 per gallon Staff Writer A year ago Several dozen protestors lined $3.05 per gallon Hungerford Road in front of rush- AVERAGE PRICE PER GALLON OF hour commuters Monday evening to UNLEADED REGULAR GAS IN MARYLAND/D.C. METRO AREA protest the eventual inclusion of spe- ACCORDING TO AAA cial education students into general classrooms. INSIDE Jeanne Taylor, a mother of three disabled students in the school sys- tem, and an advocate of special needs children says that plans to dissolve the special education learning centers will be cheaper for the school system, “because they won’t give us the nec- essary support,” and is a by-product of the “No Child Left Behind” pro- gram. “Not all, but most of these chil- dren, especially the autistic children can’t be mainstreamed,” Taylor said. “It’s a no-brainer.” MCPS began the learning center Do for others program more than 30 years ago. Then, as is the case now, the centers One local Rockville girl were intended for students with “mod- gives from the heart. Page 7 erate to severe” learning disabilities, according to the appeal. Instructors hoped they would be able to offer PHOTOS BY DREW PIERSON more individualized services by con- centrating groups of disabled students together. Superintendent Jerry Weast first proposed to eliminate the learning centers in December 2006. His rea- Parents and children lined up sons, according to the appeal filed outside of the Montgomery with the state board of education, in- County Board of Education cluded the disproportionately large Monday night to protest plans number of minority students in the to mainstream special learning centers, as well as studies that education students. suggested disabled students incorpo- rated into general classrooms faired better on tests. But Taylor said that Weast’s mo- Wootton on a tivation was to disperse disabled stu- roll dents across the county, thus raising Rockville council rocked by acrimony the aggregate, county-wide test scores Bernardo, one of the PTA members PTA members, sharply criticized city The Patriots head into By Drew Pierson mandated by the federal No Child Left who spoke during the council’s public staff for supposedly taking money untested waters for a local Staff Writer Behind Act. comment period, brought her and her away from public safety measures. lacrosse team. “That’s what happens,” Taylor Page 22 It’s like a game of connect the neighbor’s children before the coun- “I would first like to address the said. “You disperse the children and dots. cil. awful, awful idea that any public safe- you don’t have all of those low scores First dot: Members of the Woot- “I want you to look at them, and ty item would ever be cut, and the in one lump sum. It isn’t about the ton PTA lambasted the Rockville City look right in their eyes, and see in their shock when I got this memo [the pro- kids. It’s about the test scores.” Council at a meeting Monday night eyes, and think about their eyes when posed fund cuts], this is not The Board approved Weast’s pro- about a proposed $180,000 cut in you vote to cut safety measures from Rockville,” Robbins said. “I never posal on Feb. 13, 2007, with the caveat funding for playground equipment, as Wootton County Parkway,” Bernardo again want to ever receive anything that the centers would be gradually well as $100,000 that was to be used said to the council. like this, and I’m very, very serious.” for proposed traffic safety measures Second dot: Councilwoman See Special ed, page 8 near Wootton High School. Andrea Anne M. Robbins, agreeing with the See Rockville, page 8 2THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SENTINEL MAY 24, 2007 EFLECTIONS The Montgomery County Sentinel, published weekly by Montgomery Sen- tinel Publishing, Inc., is a community R newspaper covering Montgomery County, Maryland. Our offices are locat- ed at 30 Courthouse Sq. Suite 405 September 13, 1962 Rockville, MD 20850. Founded in 1855 by Matthew Fields. All mail to: P.O. Box 1272, Rockville, MD 20849-1272. Sub- scription Rates for The Montgomery County Sentinel – Weekly by mail: Electronic brains used in county classrooms $22.05 per year & $15.75 for Senior Citi- zens. (USPS) 361-100. Each week, The Sentinel revis- Brian M. Benson. speeds past human comprehension, of finance who heads the program- Bernard Kapiloff its a memorable story from our As a starter, the system’s major limited only by the ability of a print- ming team, foresees the day when PUBLISHER archives. job this summer was scheduling er to print out “just 600 lines a each child is given an identifying Mark Kapiloff classes at a number of secondary minute,” as one school official puts number to carry with him through ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER County schoolteachers and schools for the school year, which it. his school years- a n umber which [email protected] principals will find their paper-work started last week. Students in selected secondary the data processing system will use Lynn G. Kapiloff loads considerably lightened and It had to take into account both schools this year will have their en- in every analysis of his attendance, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER speeded in the months ahead, when the number of students interested in tire class schedules printed up for test results, grades and general [email protected] the Board of Education’s new elec- each subject being offered and the them on cards by the system, Inter- progress. tronic data processing system hits its hours of the day when it was avail- national Business Machine’s 1401 Jobs which took days of valu- EDITORIAL stride. able. equipment. able educational and administrative Brian J. Karem First task of the $140,000 sys- This task, normally handled by Once school started, the system time, formerly will be dispatched MANAGING EDITOR tem, installed last March, was to principals in advance of school’s has been programmed to tally atten- within minutes by the incredible [email protected] take over the school system’s finan- opening, is complicated by new dance records submitted by teach- electronic “brain” and its tireless Josh Bowman cial records. That complete, the data trends toward grouping youngsters ers, relieving them of the load of mechanical slaves. [email protected] processing equipment now is being by ability levels and the necessity of computing percentages and levels Checking and grading of Drew Pierson applied to pupil records. building equal “pupil loads” for which have to be reported to the U.S. achievement tests- one of the most [email protected] “The future of this equipment each other. government in an “impacted” area time-consuming of clerical tasks will definitely be in the educational Even with the complications, like Montgomery County which is facing teachers- proves a snap to the STAFF WRITERS field, rather than in the financial the system has processed the data on eligible for federal aid. whirling, purring data processing Brandy L. Simms field,” says School Finance Director which it builds the schedules at Dick Grove, assistant director complex. SPORTS WRITER Marketa Ebert STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER HUMOR Brian Schott COPY EDITOR Michelle L. 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