Compensatory Services

[Anonymous]

I am poster above my meeting was yesterday and it was just the annual one

[Anonymous]

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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.

I promise you that a lot of research went into what your child was provided and how much progress they did or didn’t make before you had that meeting. I assure you it took much longer than 60 seconds.It is odd that you had the meeting already since the teacher trainings are taking place next week and the page just appeared on Seastars the other day.

As far as anger at parents, you won’t get that from me. It’s the dumping more, more, more on special ed teachers that gets me. Where does the time come from? It comes from the time spent with students. Isn’t that who they’re supposed to be helping?

NP there was no such info at my IEP meetings it was the last agenda item and was like "you qualify for compensatory services and they are available on evenings ends weekends. You can submit receipts if you paid for services but you might not be reimbursec."

Again, teachers have not even had the training, and the tab did not appear on Seastars until the middle of this past week.

When you really do have your meeting, they will already have gone through all of your child’s records. They won’t be doing it in front of you. They will let you know if you are entitled to compensatory services or not based on their reasesrch into your child’s records over the last few years.

[Anonymous]

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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.

That is nice that you taught special kids when it was your job but many schools took away services. It happened to us. We were fortunate to be able to go to a private tutor- it was expensive but the teacher was fantastic and our child made massive improvements. It was worth it but it was expensive.

I have no expectations that the FCPS compensatory services will be good so we are not doing them but we are submitting our expenses for the time we paid for the private tutor. We probably won’t get paid back but I want someone to see the cost.

A meeting will still be required.

We already had the meeting. It was part of our yearly IEP

They are going to be requesting another one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I promise you that a lot of research went into what your child was provided and how much progress they did or didn’t make before you had that meeting. I assure you it took much longer than 60 seconds.It is odd that you had the meeting already since the teacher trainings are taking place next week and the page just appeared on Seastars the other day.

As far as anger at parents, you won’t get that from me. It’s the dumping more, more, more on special ed teachers that gets me. Where does the time come from? It comes from the time spent with students. Isn’t that who they’re supposed to be helping?

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[Anonymous]

What are the options for kids that are now high school seniors? They can’t get services to make up for their partly 9th, 10th and 11th grade years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the options for kids that are now high school seniors? They can’t get services to make up for their partly 9th, 10th and 11th grade years.

Did your kid not get three years of services?

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Anonymous wrote:What are the options for kids that are now high school seniors? They can’t get services to make up for their partly 9th, 10th and 11th grade years.

Did your kid not get three years of services?

He received no services during the time he was having to do online school. How does a student with learning disabilities learn when the teacher nor the students had cameras on, there were just As handed out like candy.

[Anonymous]

Every parent should be asking for copies of all the items they review for audit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are the options for kids that are now high school seniors? They can’t get services to make up for their partly 9th, 10th and 11th grade years.

Did your kid not get three years of services?

He received no services during the time he was having to do online school. How does a student with learning disabilities learn when the teacher nor the students had cameras on, there were just As handed out like candy.

Schools have been in-person since at least the Spring of 2021. Some before that. Your child didn’t miss 3 years of school in-person unless you intentionally kept them at home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are the options for kids that are now high school seniors? They can’t get services to make up for their partly 9th, 10th and 11th grade years.

Did your kid not get three years of services?

He received no services during the time he was having to do online school. How does a student with learning disabilities learn when the teacher nor the students had cameras on, there were just As handed out like candy.

Schools have been in-person since at least the Spring of 2021. Some before that. Your child didn’t miss 3 years of school in-person unless you intentionally kept them at home.

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[Anonymous]

My daughter did not have services from March 2020-through June 2021. She was 6th grade so the last grade to go back in person (and she wasn't offered to go before that) and she got no special ed services when she returned in person because there was childcare issues with the special ed teacher who could do OG.

So 1 year and 3 months. We hired a tutor and I am hoping we get reimbursed for something. I would be happy if FCPS gave me $1000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter did not have services from March 2020-through June 2021. She was 6th grade so the last grade to go back in person (and she wasn't offered to go before that) and she got no special ed services when she returned in person because there was childcare issues with the special ed teacher who could do OG.

So 1 year and 3 months. We hired a tutor and I am hoping we get reimbursed for something. I would be happy if FCPS gave me $1000.

DP
I teach an ES grade. My students returned in March 2021. Anyone who wanted to come back did so. There was no "offering". We did the hybrid in-person/virtual teaching. I had 19 students in-person and a small number at their homes, but that was their choice. Some classes on the grade level had every student back in-person.

[Anonymous]

A lot of kids went back (finally) and their teachers stayed home.

[Anonymous]

Around March 23, 2020 Governor Northam ordered all schools closed for the rest of the academic year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What are the options for kids that are now high school seniors? They can’t get services to make up for their partly 9th, 10th and 11th grade years.

Did your kid not get three years of services?

He received no services during the time he was having to do online school. How does a student with learning disabilities learn when the teacher nor the students had cameras on, there were just As handed out like candy.

So your child spent months sitting in front of a black screen in all 7 of his classes and the teachers provided no instruction? I don't understand how this is possible.