Whoa FCPS- data breach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another reason I hate all the freaking surveys asking our kids extremely personal information. All the surveys should be stopped. It would save the schools a lot of money. They never actually help any kids with it anyway.

Youngkin’s new educational models for the state say all surveys should be announced and opt in but of course FCPS bucks the rules and doesn’t follow them.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. While I sympathize, this woman has wreaked operational havoc on the schools her children have attended. I know one AP who spent her summer dealing with document requests from her instead of working on things that were needed to open school in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just what you’d expect under incompetent Michelle Reid and the equally incompetent School Board that hired her.

With statements like this, admit it, you're not happy about anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. While I sympathize, this woman has wreaked operational havoc on the schools her children have attended. I know one AP who spent her summer dealing with document requests from her instead of working on things that were needed to open school in the fall.

She was an "advocate" for one of the students in my lower ES class. She and the mom of the child were nasty from the second we sat down in an initial meeting. I typically walk into a meeting and present a pleasant greeting and small talk. Neither would make eye contact, let alone smile. They interrupted and they looked for any opportunity to find a "gotcha" moment. I remember trying to point out some positives about the child's academic work and they didn't want to hear it. It was all very negative and stressful when all I wanted to do was work with the parent in support of the child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am still shocked by how relaxed FCPS will student information. This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. Is FCPS going to respond or is it business as usual? Someone has to have insider info!

My take: General criticisms are used to avoid a target on the back and retaliation.

The student documents stored in an unlocked file cabinet, available to anyone, are not standard procedure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone in FCP screwed up big time, but this woman is unbelievable. She kept reading, kept the files, and decided she was the arbiter of how to handle this:

"Oettinger said she didn’t report the leak to district officials because she doesn’t trust them "

Come on. From another parent: “Some of the information I found out about other people’s children I don’t want to know,” said Melear, the parent who relocated to Denver."

This woman is almost just as bad as FCPS...sharing the documents!

Callie Oettinger wants FCPS to get in trouble and is constantly looking for trouble.

+1

A Zero Trust based system is essential to data privacy and protection, as is an insider threat program. You have to assume that people like Oettinger exist. Of course, anyone reasonable would have, upon encountering data about other students, immediately contacted the school and said there is a problem. But she has an agenda. And privacy programs must plan for people like this.

I am flabbergasted at her being able to take a flash drive home. My employer doesn't permit use of them.

I tend to agree with the lawyer in this thread who mentioned just how expensive this apparatus is. Not an excuse, though.



In a trust system, a distrustful person can wreak havoc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. While I sympathize, this woman has wreaked operational havoc on the schools her children have attended. I know one AP who spent her summer dealing with document requests from her instead of working on things that were needed to open school in the fall.

She was an "advocate" for one of the students in my lower ES class. She and the mom of the child were nasty from the second we sat down in an initial meeting. I typically walk into a meeting and present a pleasant greeting and small talk. Neither would make eye contact, let alone smile. They interrupted and they looked for any opportunity to find a "gotcha" moment. I remember trying to point out some positives about the child's academic work and they didn't want to hear it. It was all very negative and stressful when all I wanted to do was work with the parent in support of the child.

I don't know. This doesn't talk about anything actually that was being worked on. I wasnt at the meeting but you seem very passive aggressive about the purpose of the intervention or IEP meeting expecting too much positivity from it and its purpose. FCPS spends too much time hiding behind positive comments to get them out of doing work. Maybe you read the meeting wrong expecting a work session to be super positive and congratulatory rather than discussing hard topics and saving the positive comments for another time or the end of the quarter or year when growth was actually achieved. If someone was bringing an advocate I would understand that they wanted to face some challenges and work on solutions. It would annoying to me as well if the meeting kept getting redirected to positives and I was paying a large sum of money to someone to work put problems. She should have redacted the staff names as well but since she runs this business it makes sense that she is a watchdog for this type of stuff. I still haven't seem FCPS say anything on it.

[Anonymous]

This is why I opt my children out of FCPS’s SEL screener.

The screener is not anonymous and your child’s answers are part of their permanent record.

FCPS does not guard those records apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another reason I hate all the freaking surveys asking our kids extremely personal information. All the surveys should be stopped. It would save the schools a lot of money. They never actually help any kids with it anyway.

Youngkin’s new educational models for the state say all surveys should be announced and opt in but of course FCPS bucks the rules and doesn’t follow them.

Change is needed in FCPS.

Vote republican!

[Anonymous]

I don't understand how a parent even gets access to this accidentally:
1,000+ students: mental health tracking data, to include marking students with suicidal ideation, drug addiction, domestic violence at home, and so on.
1: One heartbreaking email from a father, telling a school principal about his child being sexually assaulted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. While I sympathize, this woman has wreaked operational havoc on the schools her children have attended. I know one AP who spent her summer dealing with document requests from her instead of working on things that were needed to open school in the fall.

She was an "advocate" for one of the students in my lower ES class. She and the mom of the child were nasty from the second we sat down in an initial meeting. I typically walk into a meeting and present a pleasant greeting and small talk. Neither would make eye contact, let alone smile. They interrupted and they looked for any opportunity to find a "gotcha" moment. I remember trying to point out some positives about the child's academic work and they didn't want to hear it. It was all very negative and stressful when all I wanted to do was work with the parent in support of the child.

I don't know. This doesn't talk about anything actually that was being worked on. I wasnt at the meeting but you seem very passive aggressive about the purpose of the intervention or IEP meeting expecting too much positivity from it and its purpose. FCPS spends too much time hiding behind positive comments to get them out of doing work. Maybe you read the meeting wrong expecting a work session to be super positive and congratulatory rather than discussing hard topics and saving the positive comments for another time or the end of the quarter or year when growth was actually achieved. If someone was bringing an advocate I would understand that they wanted to face some challenges and work on solutions. It would annoying to me as well if the meeting kept getting redirected to positives and I was paying a large sum of money to someone to work put problems. She should have redacted the staff names as well but since she runs this business it makes sense that she is a watchdog for this type of stuff. I still haven't seem FCPS say anything on it.

You’re correct.
You weren’t at the meeting.

[Anonymous]

And for someone who was so positive you certainly found a lot of negatives on others. The parent took the time to meet and bring an advocate so it must have been serious. Maybe you sucked up all the positivity on the subject for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And for someone who was so positive you certainly found a lot of negatives on others. The parent took the time to meet and bring an advocate so it must have been serious. Maybe you sucked up all the positivity on the subject for yourself.

DP. Attacking a random teacher who wants to work with a parent to support a child? Miserable. No wonder teachers are unhappy. And unhappy teachers make unhappy students. Everyone is unhappy.

[Anonymous]

You chose to post here in the middle of a school day about some meeting where a parent took the time to not only attend but bring help to solve a problem and it was you who only saw the negative in this. You came here to shame someone who you met once. This woman exposed a huge breach. You had a preprogrammed view of how your meeting should go and are upset it didn't meet your expectations. You read the meeting wrong and obviously there was an issue in your classroom. None of this takes away from the fact that FCPS made a huge breach of information which is way greater an issue than this woman's disposition.

[Anonymous]

And clearly you are not the nicey nice person you think you are if you are coming here to slander.