Are we allowed to give guideline to teachers

[Anonymous]

There are more than 25,000 students with disabilities in FCPS. The feds recently had to intervene due to discrimination.

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-educations-office-civil-rights-announces-resolution-investigation-fairfax-county-public-schools-virginia-related-needs-students-disabilities-during-covid-19-pandemic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are more than 25,000 students with disabilities in FCPS. The feds recently had to intervene due to discrimination.

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-educations-office-civil-rights-announces-resolution-investigation-fairfax-county-public-schools-virginia-related-needs-students-disabilities-during-covid-19-pandemic

OP's child does not have a disability and she is not asking for an accommodation due to a disability. She is asking for unreasonable accommodations due to "wanting her kid to be a kid. " Whatever that means.

[Anonymous]

Op, not all homework is bad. Kids need to practice, re-read, memorize, take time to understand, and move to a higher learning plane. This all takes time and some of this should be done outside of school in the quietude of their home or other learning space. Please reconsider the value of homework. It’s not just a time suck.

[Anonymous]

who TF you think you are? if you have so many guidelnes, sounds like you need to homeschool your own kid.

[Anonymous]

Considering that our kids in HS are at school for close to seven hours per day, then have homework for a minimum of three to four hours daily - weekends included, it is not unreasonable to expect them to feel burnout. Most adults would be if they had to work that many hours per week. In fact, by law, many get compensated for overtime if they exceed the 40 hrs. per week.

One way to maximize their time at school would be to cut down the non-academic activities that take place during school hours. Because we can’t seem to have an influence on the amount of surveys, Observance days, or other times when students won’t be doing much learning, they can be opted-out from screenings, surveys, SEL, FLE, etc., and go to the library instead so that they can do homework or study during the time these data collections or supplemental activities are taking place. They can use noise canceling headphones to better concentrate when the teacher is absent and the sub instructs them to work independently. At least on those days they can maximize their work time at school and have more flexibility at home to rest.

Also, teach your child that any job is dignifying, no matter how menial may seem to others, and that not everyone is expected to go to college, but rather to be a responsible, productive, and decent member of society.