Teachers, would writing a letter to Dr. Reed do anything?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week.

NP. As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions. Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else. I can see how the additional meetings are a burden. Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic? What does that even mean?

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time. Time to make it right.

+1000. Brabrand and this School Board were the biggest disasters in FCPS and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

I very much doubt that parents will be happy in the end.

AGREE....parents are not going to like the chickens that roost next year. but enjoy for now I guess

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a SPED teacher who went back in October of 2021 before there was a vaccine. I love my job but I'm actively looking elsewhere. Central Office should be doing everything related to compensatory services, from digging through the data to figure out who is entitled to what, to scheduling and arranging the meetings, to providing and services as required. Putting this on the teachers who were following the orders we were given at the time is stupid. This, plus the Newport News shooting, plus the change of insurance companies to a worse provider is going to create an even more severe shortage than we already have. Intent forms are going out shortly and I believe some schools already sent them. I wish I could bookmark this post because there's going to be widespread panic when some schools lose their entire SPED departments next year and FCPS will claim they have no idea why.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It means that if a child didn't make "adequate" progress during the virtual part of the pandemic then they are in need of additional services. It could mean that they had trouble accessing virtual services due to lack of equipment, had trouble attending, did not learn in that manner, etc. The trouble is that you need to document for every student and hold a meeting and document in several places. It's very time consuming. It's a lot of work and then the services being offered are not much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week.

NP. As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions. Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else. I can see how the additional meetings are a burden. Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic? What does that even mean?

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time. Time to make it right.

Can you explain further? What services are being offered? What are the metrics for progress?

Services being offered are individual to the student and what progress wasn’t made.

Johnny usually makes 1 year of growth in reading levels during a normal school year, but during virtual only grew half a year? Maybe an hour of private tutoring once a week after school to work on reading.

Suzy has an IEP for speech but didn’t get a physical person present because FCPS was not meeting in person and therefor made minimal progress in speech goals because no one was able to physically shape her mouth? She will qualify to have a SP come to her house on Saturday for an extra 30 minutes a week.

Larlo’s parents were worried he was going to fall behind during virtual so hired a math tutor (and have receipts to prove it?) They may be able to submit those receipts for reimbursement, if he didn’t get his math pull out accommodations.

A kid who usually makes minimal growth in reading and online made minimal growth in reading should not qualify. A child who usually keeps up with grade level expectations and online met grade level benchmarks won’t qualify. There has to be proof (through testing data, sol scores, IEP narratives) that less than normal progress was made that year.

THANK YOU! This is so much clearer than what they gave to parents.

How do they handle reimbursement? If a child did not receive 20 hours of speech, but you have 20 hours of private speech sessions, is this an automatic reimbursement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s all such a mess.

We have services and when they contact us, I want to say no thanks. Don’t even have a meeting. Save yourselves some work. Is that an option? I really feel for these teachers.

My DC got a 504 last year. We just had our annual meeting and they told us we would have another one for compensatory services. We don't need compensatory services - I'd like to have a 5 minute virtual meeting where we tell them that. SMH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means that if a child didn't make "adequate" progress during the virtual part of the pandemic then they are in need of additional services. It could mean that they had trouble accessing virtual services due to lack of equipment, had trouble attending, did not learn in that manner, etc. The trouble is that you need to document for every student and hold a meeting and document in several places. It's very time consuming. It's a lot of work and then the services being offered are not much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week.

NP. As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions. Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else. I can see how the additional meetings are a burden. Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic? What does that even mean?

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time. Time to make it right.

Can you explain further? What services are being offered? What are the metrics for progress?

Services being offered are individual to the student and what progress wasn’t made.

Johnny usually makes 1 year of growth in reading levels during a normal school year, but during virtual only grew half a year? Maybe an hour of private tutoring once a week after school to work on reading.

Suzy has an IEP for speech but didn’t get a physical person present because FCPS was not meeting in person and therefor made minimal progress in speech goals because no one was able to physically shape her mouth? She will qualify to have a SP come to her house on Saturday for an extra 30 minutes a week.

Larlo’s parents were worried he was going to fall behind during virtual so hired a math tutor (and have receipts to prove it?) They may be able to submit those receipts for reimbursement, if he didn’t get his math pull out accommodations.

A kid who usually makes minimal growth in reading and online made minimal growth in reading should not qualify. A child who usually keeps up with grade level expectations and online met grade level benchmarks won’t qualify. There has to be proof (through testing data, sol scores, IEP narratives) that less than normal progress was made that year.

THANK YOU! This is so much clearer than what they gave to parents.

How do they handle reimbursement? If a child did not receive 20 hours of speech, but you have 20 hours of private speech sessions, is this an automatic reimbursement?

No.

[Anonymous]

I'm over FCPS' complete disregard for teachers. There are so many people employed in Gatehouse....why are all of these very legal decisions of money and services falling on the shoulders of teachers and admin who are trying their best to ensure that students are learning and receiving services for this year. It's like chasing your tail. ENOUGH FCPS and parent groups. Principals were searching high and low for teachers last year- what will the next year bring. I already know of three on my SPED team who said they are not coming back next year. Here's hoping they make it the rest of this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means that if a child didn't make "adequate" progress during the virtual part of the pandemic then they are in need of additional services. It could mean that they had trouble accessing virtual services due to lack of equipment, had trouble attending, did not learn in that manner, etc. The trouble is that you need to document for every student and hold a meeting and document in several places. It's very time consuming. It's a lot of work and then the services being offered are not much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week.

NP. As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions. Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else. I can see how the additional meetings are a burden. Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic? What does that even mean?

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time. Time to make it right.

Can you explain further? What services are being offered? What are the metrics for progress?

Services being offered are individual to the student and what progress wasn’t made.

Johnny usually makes 1 year of growth in reading levels during a normal school year, but during virtual only grew half a year? Maybe an hour of private tutoring once a week after school to work on reading.

Suzy has an IEP for speech but didn’t get a physical person present because FCPS was not meeting in person and therefor made minimal progress in speech goals because no one was able to physically shape her mouth? She will qualify to have a SP come to her house on Saturday for an extra 30 minutes a week.

Larlo’s parents were worried he was going to fall behind during virtual so hired a math tutor (and have receipts to prove it?) They may be able to submit those receipts for reimbursement, if he didn’t get his math pull out accommodations.

A kid who usually makes minimal growth in reading and online made minimal growth in reading should not qualify. A child who usually keeps up with grade level expectations and online met grade level benchmarks won’t qualify. There has to be proof (through testing data, sol scores, IEP narratives) that less than normal progress was made that year.

THANK YOU! This is so much clearer than what they gave to parents.

How do they handle reimbursement? If a child did not receive 20 hours of speech, but you have 20 hours of private speech sessions, is this an automatic reimbursement?

That was not explained to staff. Teachers are to create a portfolio of documentation related to the goals that were in the IEP when the pandemic hit, and during. They will meet (with the family) to decide if similar progress was/was not made base on the student's typical amount of progress. They mark the file as "yes, compensatory" or "no, not compensatory". Then lawyers in central office will determine actual reimbursement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s all such a mess.

We have services and when they contact us, I want to say no thanks. Don’t even have a meeting. Save yourselves some work. Is that an option? I really feel for these teachers.

My DC got a 504 last year. We just had our annual meeting and they told us we would have another one for compensatory services. We don't need compensatory services - I'd like to have a 5 minute virtual meeting where we tell them that. SMH

Im in the same boat with DC-I've told them I'll take a quick virtual(since it's mandatory) but we do not want services nor do we want educators wasting precious time on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s all such a mess.

We have services and when they contact us, I want to say no thanks. Don’t even have a meeting. Save yourselves some work. Is that an option? I really feel for these teachers.

My DC got a 504 last year. We just had our annual meeting and they told us we would have another one for compensatory services. We don't need compensatory services - I'd like to have a 5 minute virtual meeting where we tell them that. SMH

Im in the same boat with DC-I've told them I'll take a quick virtual(since it's mandatory) but we do not want services nor do we want educators wasting precious time on this.

Thank you! This sentiment is very much appreciated.

Unfortunately, we still have to create the entire file for your DC and hold the entire meeting. You can opt out of attending, but no time will be saved. It's really, really, frustrating how this settlement was written.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week.

NP. As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions. Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else. I can see how the additional meetings are a burden. Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic? What does that even mean?

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time. Time to make it right.

+1000. Brabrand and this School Board were the biggest disasters in FCPS and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

I very much doubt that parents will be happy in the end.

AGREE....parents are not going to like the chickens that roost next year. but enjoy for now I guess

There may have to be more pain for the overdue changes in FCPS to occur. It’s an inefficient, corrupt system overseen by political hacks like who have narrow personal agendas and consistently fail to act in the public interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means that if a child didn't make "adequate" progress during the virtual part of the pandemic then they are in need of additional services. It could mean that they had trouble accessing virtual services due to lack of equipment, had trouble attending, did not learn in that manner, etc. The trouble is that you need to document for every student and hold a meeting and document in several places. It's very time consuming. It's a lot of work and then the services being offered are not much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week.

NP. As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions. Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else. I can see how the additional meetings are a burden. Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic? What does that even mean?

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time. Time to make it right.

Can you explain further? What services are being offered? What are the metrics for progress?

Services being offered are individual to the student and what progress wasn’t made.

Johnny usually makes 1 year of growth in reading levels during a normal school year, but during virtual only grew half a year? Maybe an hour of private tutoring once a week after school to work on reading.

Suzy has an IEP for speech but didn’t get a physical person present because FCPS was not meeting in person and therefor made minimal progress in speech goals because no one was able to physically shape her mouth? She will qualify to have a SP come to her house on Saturday for an extra 30 minutes a week.

Larlo’s parents were worried he was going to fall behind during virtual so hired a math tutor (and have receipts to prove it?) They may be able to submit those receipts for reimbursement, if he didn’t get his math pull out accommodations.

A kid who usually makes minimal growth in reading and online made minimal growth in reading should not qualify. A child who usually keeps up with grade level expectations and online met grade level benchmarks won’t qualify. There has to be proof (through testing data, sol scores, IEP narratives) that less than normal progress was made that year.

THANK YOU! This is so much clearer than what they gave to parents.

How do they handle reimbursement? If a child did not receive 20 hours of speech, but you have 20 hours of private speech sessions, is this an automatic reimbursement?

That was not explained to staff. Teachers are to create a portfolio of documentation related to the goals that were in the IEP when the pandemic hit, and during. They will meet (with the family) to decide if similar progress was/was not made base on the student's typical amount of progress. They mark the file as "yes, compensatory" or "no, not compensatory". Then lawyers in central office will determine actual reimbursement.

It seems like much less annoyance to do none of that and take a job in Loudon or Arlington next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I'm over FCPS' complete disregard for teachers. There are so many people employed in Gatehouse....why are all of these very legal decisions of money and services falling on the shoulders of teachers and admin who are trying their best to ensure that students are learning and receiving services for this year. It's like chasing your tail. ENOUGH FCPS and parent groups. Principals were searching high and low for teachers last year- what will the next year bring. I already know of three on my SPED team who said they are not coming back next year. Here's hoping they make it the rest of this year.

I fear that this will a tough summer, with many teachers and administrators leaving for these reasons. A number of administrators have left this already for PWC and other positions. It is tough for everyone when we lose good people, which will stretch the “recover” out even longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS dropped the ball in slow motion on this one. We all saw this day coming. We spoke up for the kids with IEPs and we were still ignored. It is too bad it came down to this but these teachers could have spoken up then. Some did. Some were quick to return to work but many weren’t. Schools opened months after vaccination and even then, it was for 2 days a week. Personally I am pleased FCPS is being held accountable.

In the summer of 2020 we were surveyed and asked if we would be willing to teach in person. I was 100% in with teaching in person at the start of the 2020-2021 SY. Of course the district started off virtual. I still feel like it was almost like a lock out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means that if a child didn't make "adequate" progress during the virtual part of the pandemic then they are in need of additional services. It could mean that they had trouble accessing virtual services due to lack of equipment, had trouble attending, did not learn in that manner, etc. The trouble is that you need to document for every student and hold a meeting and document in several places. It's very time consuming. It's a lot of work and then the services being offered are not much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP and in school.

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated. What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated. Absolutely no one.

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week.

NP. As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions. Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else. I can see how the additional meetings are a burden. Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic? What does that even mean?

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time. Time to make it right.

Can you explain further? What services are being offered? What are the metrics for progress?

Services being offered are individual to the student and what progress wasn’t made.

Johnny usually makes 1 year of growth in reading levels during a normal school year, but during virtual only grew half a year? Maybe an hour of private tutoring once a week after school to work on reading.

Suzy has an IEP for speech but didn’t get a physical person present because FCPS was not meeting in person and therefor made minimal progress in speech goals because no one was able to physically shape her mouth? She will qualify to have a SP come to her house on Saturday for an extra 30 minutes a week.

Larlo’s parents were worried he was going to fall behind during virtual so hired a math tutor (and have receipts to prove it?) They may be able to submit those receipts for reimbursement, if he didn’t get his math pull out accommodations.

A kid who usually makes minimal growth in reading and online made minimal growth in reading should not qualify. A child who usually keeps up with grade level expectations and online met grade level benchmarks won’t qualify. There has to be proof (through testing data, sol scores, IEP narratives) that less than normal progress was made that year.

THANK YOU! This is so much clearer than what they gave to parents.

How do they handle reimbursement? If a child did not receive 20 hours of speech, but you have 20 hours of private speech sessions, is this an automatic reimbursement?

That was not explained to staff. Teachers are to create a portfolio of documentation related to the goals that were in the IEP when the pandemic hit, and during. They will meet (with the family) to decide if similar progress was/was not made base on the student's typical amount of progress. They mark the file as "yes, compensatory" or "no, not compensatory". Then lawyers in central office will determine actual reimbursement.

It seems like much less annoyance to do none of that and take a job in Loudon or Arlington next year.

This all has to be done by JUNE!!!!

Our school only has 90 IEPS. Imagine schools with centers and more IEPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s all such a mess.

We have services and when they contact us, I want to say no thanks. Don’t even have a meeting. Save yourselves some work. Is that an option? I really feel for these teachers.

My DC got a 504 last year. We just had our annual meeting and they told us we would have another one for compensatory services. We don't need compensatory services - I'd like to have a 5 minute virtual meeting where we tell them that. SMH

Im in the same boat with DC-I've told them I'll take a quick virtual(since it's mandatory) but we do not want services nor do we want educators wasting precious time on this.

Thank you! This sentiment is very much appreciated.

Unfortunately, we still have to create the entire file for your DC and hold the entire meeting. You can opt out of attending, but no time will be saved. It's really, really, frustrating how this settlement was written.

I am a PP and also an FCPS teacher who doesn’t have the time or coverage to take the meeting. Haha