How is FCPS implementing ALL IN VIRGINIA?

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Anonymous wrote:Op: Why not hire a tutor on your own? I pay my son’s tutor as it’s my responsibility.

Not everyone can afford several hundred dollars a month, PP. Surely you understand this?

NP: I don’t see how it’s the responsibility of the school to provide outside tutoring for children. Online tutoring has been available for a while now.

The idea with the state-level programs is that it's the schools responsibility because the school chose how long to stay virtual (despite being allowed to be in-person) during school year 2020-2021. Given that many, many studies have now piled up showing that closing doors lead to drastic learning loss, the idea is the schools are supposed to fix the problem they - wittingly or unwittingly - helped to create.

Curious, is this for fourth grade and above? The current fourth graders were the Covid kinders. Students in grades 3 and below were not in school yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

For children who do not have IEPs?

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My kid has a 504 but we were offered after school sessions last year. We turned them down. At that point it was a struggle to get my kid to go to school. Making the day longer with some staff member wasn’t going to be productive. I have another child younger, who was in AAP and we got a letter for a “fun” summer enrichment program. I think they went through lists of people and then offered it to everyone as others turned them down. Both kids were offered this “fun” summer program for several years in elementary and middle. We don’t know anyone who went.

I think this is how FCPS is providing services. Yes, we are privileged to be able to provide our own academic tutoring and pay out of pocket.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op: Why not hire a tutor on your own? I pay my son’s tutor as it’s my responsibility.

Not everyone can afford several hundred dollars a month, PP. Surely you understand this?

NP: I don’t see how it’s the responsibility of the school to provide outside tutoring for children. Online tutoring has been available for a while now.

Because the governor said so and allocated money towards it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op: Why not hire a tutor on your own? I pay my son’s tutor as it’s my responsibility.

Not everyone can afford several hundred dollars a month, PP. Surely you understand this?

NP: I don’t see how it’s the responsibility of the school to provide outside tutoring for children. Online tutoring has been available for a while now.

The idea with the state-level programs is that it's the schools responsibility because the school chose how long to stay virtual (despite being allowed to be in-person) during school year 2020-2021. Given that many, many studies have now piled up showing that closing doors lead to drastic learning loss, the idea is the schools are supposed to fix the problem they - wittingly or unwittingly - helped to create.

Curious, is this for fourth grade and above? The current fourth graders were the Covid kinders. Students in grades 3 and below were not in school yet.

Nope, current third graders were the first ones to start kindergarten during Covid. The current fourth graders only missed out on two months of kindergarten. The focus is on the third graders and above though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid has a 504 but we were offered after school sessions last year. We turned them down. At that point it was a struggle to get my kid to go to school. Making the day longer with some staff member wasn’t going to be productive. I have another child younger, who was in AAP and we got a letter for a “fun” summer enrichment program. I think they went through lists of people and then offered it to everyone as others turned them down. Both kids were offered this “fun” summer program for several years in elementary and middle. We don’t know anyone who went.

I think this is how FCPS is providing services. Yes, we are privileged to be able to provide our own academic tutoring and pay out of pocket.

The “fun” summer programs are always (1) young scholars which can be fun or (2) remediation which is called “fun” because no one would come if it was called summer school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

I work at a Title 1 school with high FARMS, high EL, and high SOL failure rate. There has been no tutoring offered to anyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

To the PP’s credit, it does say “select schools.” At my school, they haven’t been able to hire more than 1 person. They pay is lower than if that person tutored on their own - the FCPS pay is ultimately lower do to taxes, benefits, etc.

It is interesting that the link doesn’t mention which “select” schools have this program available. The pay is $10 more per hour than teachers who run the after school and summer school remediation programs earn.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

I work at a Title 1 school with high FARMS, high EL, and high SOL failure rate. There has been no tutoring offered to anyone.

Same, no intensive tutoring offered.

[Anonymous]

https://brookfieldes.fcps.edu/features/i-can-feel-my-brain-getting-stronger-esser-funds-help-students-make-big-gains-small-group

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

NP. I applied for that tutoring position as soon as the link went live, early this year (or maybe it was last year?). I've never heard back.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

NP. I applied for that tutoring position as soon as the link went live, early this year (or maybe it was last year?). I've never heard back.

As was noted when they had the massive sub shortage as well as when they were hiring classroom monitors, FCPS HR shoots them in the foot all the time by ignoring applicants. The kindest reason I've heard is that they are short staffed, which would mean FCPS shoots itself in the foot by not making HR staffing a priority. But I've heard less kind reasons, including that the HR staff themselves just don't do as much as they should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op: Why not hire a tutor on your own? I pay my son’s tutor as it’s my responsibility.

Not everyone can afford several hundred dollars a month, PP. Surely you understand this?

NP: I don’t see how it’s the responsibility of the school to provide outside tutoring for children. Online tutoring has been available for a while now.

The idea with the state-level programs is that it's the schools responsibility because the school chose how long to stay virtual (despite being allowed to be in-person) during school year 2020-2021. Given that many, many studies have now piled up showing that closing doors lead to drastic learning loss, the idea is the schools are supposed to fix the problem they - wittingly or unwittingly - helped to create.

So what?

The voters re-elected the party that worked to keep schools closed.

Those among them who can afford tutors will pay for them and those too poor to do so won’t.

The people have spoken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

I work at a Title 1 school with high FARMS, high EL, and high SOL failure rate. There has been no tutoring offered to anyone.

Same, no intensive tutoring offered.

I’m in Loudoun but we were told students already receiving intervention would not be getting additional. The reading/sped/EL extra help already counted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

I work at a Title 1 school with high FARMS, high EL, and high SOL failure rate. There has been no tutoring offered to anyone.

That's because the high FARMs and new arrivals need all the help that can get. Those schools already are allocated more resources (not that it's ever enough).

If your kid did not pass the SOLs, chances are they were not too far off and don't qualify for help.