This bodes well with ACPS and return

[Anonymous]

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x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

[Anonymous]

x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.


My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.


Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

Um, because I am a single parent and also a teacher, and I am responsible for teaching my own classes in another district virtually during school hours. I cannot sit on top of him and give him the support that a para would during the day. Again, open your mind to the fact that not everyone has the situation you do.

[Anonymous]

You do not know my situation. However, I can tell that you are not doing your job as a parent if we are 9-10 weeks into the school year and you STILL have not found adequate childcare for your child. You have had since last March to be thinking about this. Don't blame other people for your failings as a parent.

I really hope you don't teach for ACPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do not know my situation. However, I can tell that you are not doing your job as a parent if we are 9-10 weeks into the school year and you STILL have not found adequate childcare for your child. You have had since last March to be thinking about this. Don't blame other people for your failings as a parent.

I really hope you don't teach for ACPS.

To the “I really hope...” PP: Wow. Just wow. I really hope you’re not as mean and callous as you come off as here.

To the PP who is the single parent of a child with an IEP: Hugs. This whole thing is hard, and you have a truly heavy lift here. Have you reached out to the sped teachers and/or administrators at your child’s school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do not know my situation. However, I can tell that you are not doing your job as a parent if we are 9-10 weeks into the school year and you STILL have not found adequate childcare for your child. You have had since last March to be thinking about this. Don't blame other people for your failings as a parent.

I really hope you don't teach for ACPS.

I'm not the PP to whom you're responding, but wow. I haven't found childcare. I honestly expected ACPS to offer some sort of in-person option for my kindergartner at some point this year. I cannot afford private school or a nanny, and because my kindergartner is not at a Title I school, we do not qualify for the programs at the rec centers. The private options offered as part of Virtual Plus+ (Campagna, ASA, etc.) are as much as private school.

[Anonymous]

You do not know my situation. However, I can tell that you are not doing your job as a parent if we are 9-10 weeks into the school year and you STILL have not found adequate childcare for your child. You have had since last March to be thinking about this. Don't blame other people for your failings as a parent.

I really hope you don't teach for ACPS.

Well, since I previously mentioned that I teach for another district, that should have tipped you off that I don't. My child is too old for any of the group options offered, which do not make age exceptions for children with disabilities. I cannot afford a nanny or private aide because, as I mentioned, I am a teacher and a single parent. I am also not seeking "childcare," I am seeking the assistance that my child is entitled to by law from his school under his IEP, but is not effectively receiving at this time due to distance learning.

[Anonymous]

Teacher PP, sorry people on this board are being jerks - that's what anonymous people on the internet do, but a lot of other parents sympathize with your situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

This is for the PP who is criticizing the special needs parent, you are clueless and cruel. At least at my child’s ACPS elementary school, the principal admonished parents not to intervene during the day. Thus, ACPS now only remains obligated to comply with the law and provide IEP mandated accommodations and services, but they are actively prohibiting from parents from doing what you suggest. I agree that compliance with IEP accommodations and services (especially special education in the general education setting) has been problematic.

[Anonymous]

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ACPS' math is wrong in terms of the number of desks they can fit into a classroom. They are not calculating the six feet correctly. It runs from where the student is sitting. The way they are doing it leaves nine feet of space in most cases.


My interpretation was that they were leaving walking space for someone to walk between desks - like a kid in the back needs to walk to the front to go out the door for the bathroom or early pickup or whatever.

Why is that necessary when it would be no more than a few seconds of someone being within less than six feet? And when no other school districts are doing it that way? Makes no sense.

Read the new CDC guidelines. It makes perfect sense. 15 minutes cumulative. Kids (and their teachers) would easily hit that after 7 hours in a classroom together. There is a lot of movement just for the bathroom, water, etc.

CDC changed the definition of exposure, which does not mean safety protocols have changed. It simple emphasizes the need to wear masks, distance, wsj hands, and circulate air/go outside as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

This is for the PP who is criticizing the special needs parent, you are clueless and cruel. At least at my child’s ACPS elementary school, the principal admonished parents not to intervene during the day. Thus, ACPS now only remains obligated to comply with the law and provide IEP mandated accommodations and services, but they are actively prohibiting from parents from doing what you suggest. I agree that compliance with IEP accommodations and services (especially special education in the general education setting) has been problematic.

What school is this? Your principal is not being realistic. My kid has a 504 and theres no way he could move through his day without at least some help from me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

This is for the PP who is criticizing the special needs parent, you are clueless and cruel. At least at my child’s ACPS elementary school, the principal admonished parents not to intervene during the day. Thus, ACPS now only remains obligated to comply with the law and provide IEP mandated accommodations and services, but they are actively prohibiting from parents from doing what you suggest. I agree that compliance with IEP accommodations and services (especially special education in the general education setting) has been problematic.

What school is this? Your principal is not being realistic. My kid has a 504 and theres no way he could move through his day without at least some help from me.

ACPS educator here. My colleagues and I have had to ask parents to stop giving their children the answers and to stop doing their child’s work. We even had to get our admin involved with a couple of parents. The teachers in our building complain about this. We get it that parents want their child to do well, but they should not be doing their work. We even have parents getting mad at us because we won’t call on their child to give an answer. We use a random selection system for calling on children but some parents don’t understand that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

This is for the PP who is criticizing the special needs parent, you are clueless and cruel. At least at my child’s ACPS elementary school, the principal admonished parents not to intervene during the day. Thus, ACPS now only remains obligated to comply with the law and provide IEP mandated accommodations and services, but they are actively prohibiting from parents from doing what you suggest. I agree that compliance with IEP accommodations and services (especially special education in the general education setting) has been problematic.

What school is this? Your principal is not being realistic. My kid has a 504 and theres no way he could move through his day without at least some help from me.

Polk

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

This is for the PP who is criticizing the special needs parent, you are clueless and cruel. At least at my child’s ACPS elementary school, the principal admonished parents not to intervene during the day. Thus, ACPS now only remains obligated to comply with the law and provide IEP mandated accommodations and services, but they are actively prohibiting from parents from doing what you suggest. I agree that compliance with IEP accommodations and services (especially special education in the general education setting) has been problematic.

What school is this? Your principal is not being realistic. My kid has a 504 and theres no way he could move through his day without at least some help from me.

ACPS educator here. My colleagues and I have had to ask parents to stop giving their children the answers and to stop doing their child’s work. We even had to get our admin involved with a couple of parents. The teachers in our building complain about this. We get it that parents want their child to do well, but they should not be doing their work. We even have parents getting mad at us because we won’t call on their child to give an answer. We use a random selection system for calling on children but some parents don’t understand that.

My response to this is to ask what grade and does it involve a special needs student. My child is a special needs Elementary student who gets very frustrated at not understanding some of the math instruction and gets dysregulated when that occurs. I admit that when he is working out a problem on his white board during zoom class, I do at times check to make sure he has written the problem down right and tell him if he has made a simple math mistake before he shows the teacher a wrong answer that will cause him to loose focus on the lesson (since my child is on mute we can talk briefly as he works through the problem. I don’t tell him the actual answer). The teacher cannot provide sufficient support over zoom which understandable. I am fine with being called out by the school for breaking the rules because I am trying to help my child get something out of this zoom environment of a teacher talking at 23 students over zoom.

[Anonymous]

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x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

This is for the PP who is criticizing the special needs parent, you are clueless and cruel. At least at my child’s ACPS elementary school, the principal admonished parents not to intervene during the day. Thus, ACPS now only remains obligated to comply with the law and provide IEP mandated accommodations and services, but they are actively prohibiting from parents from doing what you suggest. I agree that compliance with IEP accommodations and services (especially special education in the general education setting) has been problematic.

What school is this? Your principal is not being realistic. My kid has a 504 and theres no way he could move through his day without at least some help from me.

ACPS educator here. My colleagues and I have had to ask parents to stop giving their children the answers and to stop doing their child’s work. We even had to get our admin involved with a couple of parents. The teachers in our building complain about this. We get it that parents want their child to do well, but they should not be doing their work. We even have parents getting mad at us because we won’t call on their child to give an answer. We use a random selection system for calling on children but some parents don’t understand that.

My response to this is to ask what grade and does it involve a special needs student. My child is a special needs Elementary student who gets very frustrated at not understanding some of the math instruction and gets dysregulated when that occurs. I admit that when he is working out a problem on his white board during zoom class, I do at times check to make sure he has written the problem down right and tell him if he has made a simple math mistake before he shows the teacher a wrong answer that will cause him to loose focus on the lesson (since my child is on mute we can talk briefly as he works through the problem. I don’t tell him the actual answer). The teacher cannot provide sufficient support over zoom which understandable. I am fine with being called out by the school for breaking the rules because I am trying to help my child get something out of this zoom environment of a teacher talking at 23 students over zoom.

Not the parents of special needs students. This is happening in many classrooms and this is why we brought this to the attention of our admin. Parents are not even giving children thinking time before they loudly blurt out the answer. I can understand why you are providing assistance to your child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

x1000 The only reason I would advocate for anyone to consider the hybrid is if your back is against the wall in your need for childcare. Otherwise your kid will be safer, emotionally and physically, at home.

My child has a learning disability but is in a general education classroom. I don't feel that his IEP accommodations are being delivered effectively virtually. Open your mind to the possibility that everyone's circumstances are different, and you may find other reasons to advocate for.

Why aren't YOU implementing the accommodations? Don't rely on others to do your job as a parent.

This is for the PP who is criticizing the special needs parent, you are clueless and cruel. At least at my child’s ACPS elementary school, the principal admonished parents not to intervene during the day. Thus, ACPS now only remains obligated to comply with the law and provide IEP mandated accommodations and services, but they are actively prohibiting from parents from doing what you suggest. I agree that compliance with IEP accommodations and services (especially special education in the general education setting) has been problematic.

What school is this? Your principal is not being realistic. My kid has a 504 and theres no way he could move through his day without at least some help from me.

ACPS educator here. My colleagues and I have had to ask parents to stop giving their children the answers and to stop doing their child’s work. We even had to get our admin involved with a couple of parents. The teachers in our building complain about this. We get it that parents want their child to do well, but they should not be doing their work. We even have parents getting mad at us because we won’t call on their child to give an answer. We use a random selection system for calling on children but some parents don’t understand that.

My response to this is to ask what grade and does it involve a special needs student. My child is a special needs Elementary student who gets very frustrated at not understanding some of the math instruction and gets dysregulated when that occurs. I admit that when he is working out a problem on his white board during zoom class, I do at times check to make sure he has written the problem down right and tell him if he has made a simple math mistake before he shows the teacher a wrong answer that will cause him to loose focus on the lesson (since my child is on mute we can talk briefly as he works through the problem. I don’t tell him the actual answer). The teacher cannot provide sufficient support over zoom which understandable. I am fine with being called out by the school for breaking the rules because I am trying to help my child get something out of this zoom environment of a teacher talking at 23 students over zoom.

Not the parents of special needs students. This is happening in many classrooms and this is why we brought this to the attention of our admin. Parents are not even giving children thinking time before they loudly blurt out the answer. I can understand why you are providing assistance to your child.

Thanks. Thank you for your hard work. Despite my frustration with virtual learning, I do appreciate the effort of ACPS teachers/educators.