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Parents, teachers and advocates press board for stronger discipline, supports and neurodiversity training; group urges more accessible public comment rules
Summary
Public commenters at the May 20 meeting urged the board to adopt stronger discipline and behavior supports, expand training on neurodiversity for educators, and to keep public-comment procedures accessible to working constituents.
Several members of the public used the board’s 30-minute public-comment period on May 20 to press Washington County Public Schools for expanded training, stronger discipline and better behavioral supports for students, and to ask the board to keep its public-comment process accessible to working residents.
Pia Shelzel, who identified herself as Miss Western Maryland, urged the board to adopt “neurodiversity training with periodic retraining” for educators, saying the training should equip teachers with classroom strategies, assessment accommodations and real-world student stories to help educators “recognize,…
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