How is FCPS teacher/staff shortage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Way more allegations then reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Suing the district (essentially suing themselves!) and taking even more money out of the pool for Sped services seems like a great strategy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are pulling our child with an IEP and suing FCPS. They cannot staff the school and are not executing the IEP.

You are a huge part of the problem.

How are the parents the problem? And what would you suggest they do if their child isn't receiving services?

Well, this is America - every man for himself, no universal health care coverage… maybe it’s unreasonable to expect the school to provide your kid with everything he needs when the rest of our society isn’t set up to do that. Also, as long as school districts retain a self interested class of administrators acting as “managers” and controlling the funds, teachers are going to be underpaid and overworked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are pulling our child with an IEP and suing FCPS. They cannot staff the school and are not executing the IEP.

You are a huge part of the problem.

How are the parents the problem? And what would you suggest they do if their child isn't receiving services?

Law suits. Constant law suits. There are no teachers willing to take the jobs. What do you expect the county to do to give your child services - they are literally trying to. They can’t pay teachers enough because they have to pay for your law suits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Fcps literally cannot hire enough special Ed teachers. No one wants the job. Even the parents of special Ed kids don’t want the job. FCPS is not willfully breaking the law, they just don’t have a choice. They need to change the law to no longer have to provide these services. Then parents couldn’t sue and then FCPS wouldn’t have to spend so much on lawyers. Then maybe they’d actually be able to pay better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Fcps literally cannot hire enough special Ed teachers. No one wants the job. Even the parents of special Ed kids don’t want the job. FCPS is not willfully breaking the law, they just don’t have a choice. They need to change the law to no longer have to provide these services. Then parents couldn’t sue and then FCPS wouldn’t have to spend so much on lawyers. Then maybe they’d actually be able to pay better.

Yep. I have two students that came back *to the hour* after they were sent home sick. (So they started the clock of 5 days quarantine when they left the school and came back at noon the last day I stead of just sitting that whole day out). The parents don’t even want to deal with their own children, they’re going to have to make the job more enticing if they want strangers to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Suing the district (essentially suing themselves!) and taking even more money out of the pool for Sped services seems like a great strategy.

These people don't care about anything other than themselves. They want their kid in private school, and they want FCPS to pay for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Fcps literally cannot hire enough special Ed teachers. No one wants the job. Even the parents of special Ed kids don’t want the job. FCPS is not willfully breaking the law, they just don’t have a choice. They need to change the law to no longer have to provide these services. Then parents couldn’t sue and then FCPS wouldn’t have to spend so much on lawyers. Then maybe they’d actually be able to pay better.

+1 People have no idea how bad it really is. I work in a neighboring district. It's a nice, new, non-Title I school with good admin. 1/3 of our SPED staff is provisionally licensed, one won't be returning. They can't even get applicants let alone hire people. SPED is such a house of cards where career changers quickly get a provisional license for a job that is definitely not beginner level so they leave after a year or two and the cycle starts again. I'm really worried for the upcoming school year because there are so many places hiring that people may not look into teaching and we'll be stuck with double the workload.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Fcps literally cannot hire enough special Ed teachers. No one wants the job. Even the parents of special Ed kids don’t want the job. FCPS is not willfully breaking the law, they just don’t have a choice. They need to change the law to no longer have to provide these services. Then parents couldn’t sue and then FCPS wouldn’t have to spend so much on lawyers. Then maybe they’d actually be able to pay better.

+1 People have no idea how bad it really is. I work in a neighboring district. It's a nice, new, non-Title I school with good admin. 1/3 of our SPED staff is provisionally licensed, one won't be returning. They can't even get applicants let alone hire people. SPED is such a house of cards where career changers quickly get a provisional license for a job that is definitely not beginner level so they leave after a year or two and the cycle starts again. I'm really worried for the upcoming school year because there are so many places hiring that people may not look into teaching and we'll be stuck with double the workload.

+1, I am so worried for next year. No one is applying for positions that are currently open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Fcps literally cannot hire enough special Ed teachers. No one wants the job. Even the parents of special Ed kids don’t want the job. FCPS is not willfully breaking the law, they just don’t have a choice. They need to change the law to no longer have to provide these services. Then parents couldn’t sue and then FCPS wouldn’t have to spend so much on lawyers. Then maybe they’d actually be able to pay better.

+1 People have no idea how bad it really is. I work in a neighboring district. It's a nice, new, non-Title I school with good admin. 1/3 of our SPED staff is provisionally licensed, one won't be returning. They can't even get applicants let alone hire people. SPED is such a house of cards where career changers quickly get a provisional license for a job that is definitely not beginner level so they leave after a year or two and the cycle starts again. I'm really worried for the upcoming school year because there are so many places hiring that people may not look into teaching and we'll be stuck with double the workload.

+1, I am so worried for next year. No one is applying for positions that are currently open.

DP and seeing the same thing. Our SPED budget is enormous and we can't staff the positions. Something has to give.

[Anonymous]

A teacher who picks up an additional class to teach will also get a significant salary increase. Some will want to do it, especially if the teacher is near retirement. (Retirement pay is based on the average of the last few years of teaching.)

If you are near retirement, you don't want more to do. Teaching is a younger person's profession. It is both physically and mentally demanding. Most people are trying to make it to 55 or 60 (and that is hard to do). Taking on more just to up your retirement check by a few dollars a month is not an incentive.

[Anonymous]

SpEd law needs to change. We care about the kids, but unfortunately parents with resources are so easily able to game the system and get Johnny (who in actuality needs very little support to access to the curriculum) private schooling on the public dime… and only after burning their public neighborhood school and staff to the ground to get what they want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS sucks.

+1

Really adding to the discussion.

Pot, meet kettle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are pulling our child with an IEP and suing FCPS. They cannot staff the school and are not executing the IEP.

You are a huge part of the problem.

How are the parents the problem? And what would you suggest they do if their child isn't receiving services?

Well, this is America - every man for himself, no universal health care coverage… maybe it’s unreasonable to expect the school to provide your kid with everything he needs when the rest of our society isn’t set up to do that. Also, as long as school districts retain a self interested class of administrators acting as “managers” and controlling the funds, teachers are going to be underpaid and overworked.

I don't think special Ed parents expect the schools to provide everything their child needs, especially in a public school system. But it's reasonable to expect them to be educated. Just like the kids in general ed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS breaking the law is not the fault of special ed families. Jesus.

Suing the district (essentially suing themselves!) and taking even more money out of the pool for Sped services seems like a great strategy.

These people don't care about anything other than themselves. They want their kid in private school, and they want FCPS to pay for it.

So not true. Private schools don't provide special education services.