Teachers, would writing a letter to Dr. Reed do anything?

[Anonymous]

I’m in my 13th year with FCPS and I’ve had it. The new ruling about compensatory education will put me over the edge as a SpEd teacher when I’m expected to hold 500 meetings in addition to my every day job. The pay is feeling more and more like a slap in the face on a daily basis. The county never advertised the fact that the W-4 needed to be changed this year and I’m stuck owing taxes for the first time ever (I know, not totally their fault).
I’m so pissed that this is all being put on our plate and then being told we should be happy with a 3% raise. I can’t even afford to live anymore.
So, do you think she’d actually read it?

[Anonymous]

I’m a principal. She’d probably read it. She walked into this mess and gets how awful it is. At least that’s how it landed with principals when she met with us to share it.

This situation is beyond comprehension. I’ve told our teachers we’re going to eat the elephant one bite at a time and that we’re going to do it together. I don’t have much else to say except I feel your pain and frustration 1000%. It’s all I’m going to be doing for the next several months.

As for the taxes, I’m sorry that you owe and that it was a surprise. But it’s never the employer’s job to tell employees what deductions to take on their W-4. That’s all on the employee.

If you do write to her, be sure to write her name correctly. It’s Reid with an i. Focus on specific solutions.

I’m sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a principal. She’d probably read it. She walked into this mess and gets how awful it is. At least that’s how it landed with principals when she met with us to share it.

This situation is beyond comprehension. I’ve told our teachers we’re going to eat the elephant one bite at a time and that we’re going to do it together. I don’t have much else to say except I feel your pain and frustration 1000%. It’s all I’m going to be doing for the next several months.

As for the taxes, I’m sorry that you owe and that it was a surprise. But it’s never the employer’s job to tell employees what deductions to take on their W-4. That’s all on the employee.

If you do write to her, be sure to write her name correctly. It’s Reid with an i. Focus on specific solutions.

I’m sorry.

Thank you for helping me calm down a bit. I do realize it’s not the job of FCPS to notify us of taxes, but when there was a big change, a reminder to take a look would have been helpful. That’s neither here nor there.

I’m just so over it and work in a unique situation where I don’t have others to do this work with me.

I will give myself time to calm down before making any decision. But PW is looking pretty good right now.

[Anonymous]

Op, what is your caseload? 14 kids? Less? Just do 2-3 meetings a week. You can knock this out in the next quarter. Done. Just do.

[Anonymous]

What would moving to PW do? These IEPs have to be done by the end of THIS school year. Then it’s over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, what is your caseload? 14 kids? Less? Just do 2-3 meetings a week. You can knock this out in the next quarter. Done. Just do.

Are you a teacher? This workload is a major endeavor and will affect kids receiving services in the meantime.

[Anonymous]

A letter would have been more useful when you first recognized that IEP criteria were not being met. At this point it would take a large group of teachers just flat out refusing to do it and insisting the county hire someone else to come in and do it. If what they are asking teachers to do will interfere with additional service administration and implementation of current IEP services then they shouldn’t be agreeing to do it. Certainly the district knows of qualified people to outsource work to if necessary, they just don’t want to spend money. The parents aren’t being nearly vocal enough in this situation either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would moving to PW do? These IEPs have to be done by the end of THIS school year. Then it’s over.

What is PW? Private workforce?

[Anonymous]

This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

Huh? I worked my ass off during the pandemic. Troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would moving to PW do? These IEPs have to be done by the end of THIS school year. Then it’s over.

What is PW? Private workforce?

Prince William. They are paying teachers more, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would moving to PW do? These IEPs have to be done by the end of THIS school year. Then it’s over.

FCPS will be providing services (and looking for teachers to do it or pay private vendors) well into the summer and next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

No one should have to work in person until they were vaccinated? Really? What about grocery store workers? What about doctors? Police? Prison guards? Most public services did have to work in person during the pandemic.