Compensatory Services

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have information about what compensatory services will look like for special education students? I asked someone at my son’s school but they said they don’t have all the information yet and they have trainings about it next week.

[Anonymous]

So you received an answer that seems reasonable. It is correct—teachers are getting trained. I’m confused about why are you here asking if you have the answer already. Do you just want people to make random guesses?

[Anonymous]

I can tell you it is designed to break the backs of the entire FCPS SpEd apparatus, from administration to teachers. If OCR wanted to "help" students by doing this, I think they took the wrong route.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can tell you it is designed to break the backs of the entire FCPS SpEd apparatus, from administration to teachers. If OCR wanted to "help" students by doing this, I think they took the wrong route.

Yep Our poor sped teachers deserve an extra $10k for this but will get $0.

[Anonymous]

We heard at our IEP meeting that evening and weekend compensatory hours were available from non-FCPS teachers. No one is making teachers do this work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We heard at our IEP meeting that evening and weekend compensatory hours were available from non-FCPS teachers. No one is making teachers do this work.

Who do you think is combing through the IEPs from the last few years and holding extra meetings on top of the already way-too-full
schedules? What services are being provided to the students while the teachers are dealing with this? They can’t teach and do this at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Please believe me when I tell you, OP, that you'd better take care of any academic delays yourself, and not wait for poorly-trained, incredibly unmotivated teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We heard at our IEP meeting that evening and weekend compensatory hours were available from non-FCPS teachers. No one is making teachers do this work.

Who do you think is combing through the IEPs from the last few years and holding extra meetings on top of the already way-too-full
schedules? What services are being provided to the students while the teachers are dealing with this? They can’t teach and do this at the same time.

This came up in my annual IEP meeting. It was current teachers of my kid who had no involvement when he was at another school when denied services. This part of the meeting took 60 seconds. No one is combing through anything. I supplied tutoring receipts for the time period requested. I did all the work gathering the data. Tutoring services were offered if I want to deal with it after school or on the weekend with unheard of company.

[Anonymous]

Maybe teachers should direct their irritation about compensatory services toward their leadership? Parents didn’t make the directive that they didn’t have to teach special kids.

[Anonymous]

Actually on my end there was quite a bit of paperwork involved outside of the IEP stuff that you see. I had to show that each child on my caseload was eligible/not eligible. That involves more steps and paperwork then you would believe - to the point of redundancy and time waste.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We heard at our IEP meeting that evening and weekend compensatory hours were available from non-FCPS teachers. No one is making teachers do this work.

Who do you think is combing through the IEPs from the last few years and holding extra meetings on top of the already way-too-full
schedules? What services are being provided to the students while the teachers are dealing with this? They can’t teach and do this at the same time.

This came up in my annual IEP meeting. It was current teachers of my kid who had no involvement when he was at another school when denied services. This part of the meeting took 60 seconds. No one is combing through anything. I supplied tutoring receipts for the time period requested. I did all the work gathering the data. Tutoring services were offered if I want to deal with it after school or on the weekend with unheard of company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe teachers should direct their irritation about compensatory services toward their leadership? Parents didn’t make the directive that they didn’t have to teach special kids.

I taught special ed kids. Every day during the virtual learning year. This lawsuit even covers the year we were fully back in person. And requires us to spend hours combing through old data and hold second iep meetings for literally every special education student in our building before June. It's almost impossible to get through all the meetings in a regular year but now we have to do it twice. OCR has lost there ever loving minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe teachers should direct their irritation about compensatory services toward their leadership? Parents didn’t make the directive that they didn’t have to teach special kids.

I taught special ed kids. Every day during the virtual learning year. This lawsuit even covers the year we were fully back in person. And requires us to spend hours combing through old data and hold second iep meetings for literally every special education student in our building before June. It's almost impossible to get through all the meetings in a regular year but now we have to do it twice. OCR has lost there ever loving minds.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have information about what compensatory services will look like for special education students? I asked someone at my son’s school but they said they don’t have all the information yet and they have trainings about it next week.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/more/11215901-b.pdf

[Anonymous]

If the remunerations are going to be anything like “Recovery Services,” you might want to severely lower your expectations now. Those were a complete joke. The teacher assigned showed up for a few sessions and then got promoted and basically vanished. I hope services do not have to fall on our poor teachers and we can rely on outside tutors to actually do the work necessary.

[Anonymous]

I would really like to see the training sessions for staff. Are they open to the public or posted somewhere?