Separate thread: please post if you've received an in-person slot notification

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone in self-contained find out anything?

Their lottery was delayed or at least notice won’t be sent until next week.

I thought all students in self contained will be offered in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone in self-contained find out anything?

Their lottery was delayed or at least notice won’t be sent until next week.

I thought all students in self contained will be offered in person.

All students in self contained are eligible for the lottery but the cap is at 50% capacity, and even that is "based on staff availability" (which means that some won't reopen at all, I guess?).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone in self-contained find out anything?

Their lottery was delayed or at least notice won’t be sent until next week.

Also their cap is 50% so only half the students will get a spot. I don't know how they determine this....

If their in self-contained I feel all kids equally need in person. I didn't get any email, this is so stressful.

I have a kid in an under-enrolled self-contained who will most likely get a spot, and didn't get any email either, so there's hope. Hang in there!

Thank you, trying to stop stressing my kid's class went from just us to full in a matter of 3 weeks, it was crazy. I need to get away from the computer now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We haven't received notification and are quite heartbroken. My DD has a very extensive IEP so I was hoping she would be offered a seat.

We are in the same situation (Murch). I can't figure out how DC missed out on a spot given the school's priority group profile and the profile of our kid.

I would be on the phone on Monday asking that question to the coordinator of special education at Murch. How can they say that they are providing FAPE to your child when most children at Murch with IEPs will be in person and your child will not be.

That's great advice, thank you! Though I don't blame the school...I think I'd have to aim that question at DCPS Central (and their mysterious algorithm). I'm imagining their response would be, "it's a public health emergency so those rules don't apply right now, blah, blah."

[Anonymous]

About the self-contained classrooms and the 50% cap - I remember a slide during Muriel Bowser's news conference when they announced DCPS opening. It said classroom size will be between 5 and 11. Since they included that 5 on the slide, it lead me to believe that for PK3-K autism classrooms they'll go above 50%. Can't imagine them opening such a classroom with 3 randomly selected children and leaving the other 3 at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We haven't received notification and are quite heartbroken. My DD has a very extensive IEP so I was hoping she would be offered a seat.

We are in the same situation (Murch). I can't figure out how DC missed out on a spot given the school's priority group profile and the profile of our kid.

I would be on the phone on Monday asking that question to the coordinator of special education at Murch. How can they say that they are providing FAPE to your child when most children at Murch with IEPs will be in person and your child will not be.

That's great advice, thank you! Though I don't blame the school...I think I'd have to aim that question at DCPS Central (and their mysterious algorithm). I'm imagining their response would be, "it's a public health emergency so those rules don't apply right now, blah, blah."

It is not about blame - Dept of Education has not waived anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We haven't received notification and are quite heartbroken. My DD has a very extensive IEP so I was hoping she would be offered a seat.

We are in the same situation (Murch). I can't figure out how DC missed out on a spot given the school's priority group profile and the profile of our kid.

I would be on the phone on Monday asking that question to the coordinator of special education at Murch. How can they say that they are providing FAPE to your child when most children at Murch with IEPs will be in person and your child will not be.

“Most” students won’t - it’s 10 (for PK, K, 1) and 11 for each other grade. No matter the size of the school, it’s still one classroom per school. And Murch, Janney and Lafayette are very large school, so if there are 80 or 100 kids in your grade, your child has a 1 in 8 or 1 in 10 shot. It’s quite possible that a lot of kids with IEPs won’t get in, because, yes, even at Lafayette, Murch and Janney, there are homeless kids or kids who are ELL AND IEP, and so on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We haven't received notification and are quite heartbroken. My DD has a very extensive IEP so I was hoping she would be offered a seat.

We are in the same situation (Murch). I can't figure out how DC missed out on a spot given the school's priority group profile and the profile of our kid.

I would be on the phone on Monday asking that question to the coordinator of special education at Murch. How can they say that they are providing FAPE to your child when most children at Murch with IEPs will be in person and your child will not be.

That's great advice, thank you! Though I don't blame the school...I think I'd have to aim that question at DCPS Central (and their mysterious algorithm). I'm imagining their response would be, "it's a public health emergency so those rules don't apply right now, blah, blah."

You want it on the record that you believe your child needs in person instruction.
That DCPS making a decision that some students are getting in person - but not yours - even if it is lottery based - is making a decision that FAPE is not being offered to your child.

I would hope there is some lawyer willing to take a class action suit to require DCPS to provide compensatory services to all children with IEPs across DCPS who were not provided in person instruction. If the buildings are open - they should be open for all in this protected class.

[Anonymous]

Also, not every parent wants to send their kid back to in-person (for whatever reason) so there will very likely be movement on the waitlist, so you may yet get a spot for your kid with the IEP, and I will keep my fingers crossed that you do. The schools were not allowed to choose who the students for in-person would be; that was all determined by Central Office and their algorithms, so yelling at the SPED coordinator at your school doesn’t actually achieve anything.

[Anonymous]

Offered an in person spot and will decline. SWS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, not every parent wants to send their kid back to in-person (for whatever reason) so there will very likely be movement on the waitlist, so you may yet get a spot for your kid with the IEP, and I will keep my fingers crossed that you do. The schools were not allowed to choose who the students for in-person would be; that was all determined by Central Office and their algorithms, so yelling at the SPED coordinator at your school doesn’t actually achieve anything.

No - but it builds the case for when you sue for private placement a few years down the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Offered an in person spot and will decline. SWS

Didn’t the principal explicitly say you wouldn’t hear today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About the self-contained classrooms and the 50% cap - I remember a slide during Muriel Bowser's news conference when they announced DCPS opening. It said classroom size will be between 5 and 11. Since they included that 5 on the slide, it lead me to believe that for PK3-K autism classrooms they'll go above 50%. Can't imagine them opening such a classroom with 3 randomly selected children and leaving the other 3 at home.

Hello, I am a CES pk teacher, the cap is indeed 3. The other 3 will be doing DL and they'll have the same teacher. I just found this out in an email today. Nice idea DCPS. Very helpful and equitable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We haven't received notification and are quite heartbroken. My DD has a very extensive IEP so I was hoping she would be offered a seat.

We are in the same situation (Murch). I can't figure out how DC missed out on a spot given the school's priority group profile and the profile of our kid.

I would be on the phone on Monday asking that question to the coordinator of special education at Murch. How can they say that they are providing FAPE to your child when most children at Murch with IEPs will be in person and your child will not be.

That's great advice, thank you! Though I don't blame the school...I think I'd have to aim that question at DCPS Central (and their mysterious algorithm). I'm imagining their response would be, "it's a public health emergency so those rules don't apply right now, blah, blah."

You want it on the record that you believe your child needs in person instruction.
That DCPS making a decision that some students are getting in person - but not yours - even if it is lottery based - is making a decision that FAPE is not being offered to your child.

I would hope there is some lawyer willing to take a class action suit to require DCPS to provide compensatory services to all children with IEPs across DCPS who were not provided in person instruction. If the buildings are open - they should be open for all in this protected class.

Free appropriate public education isn't for parents to decide though. No where does it say, 'must be in person.'

To provide FAPE to a student, schools must provide students with an education, including specialized instruction and related services where necessary, designed to prepare the child for "further education, employment, and independent living."

It doesn't say anything about it being good instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Offered an in person spot and will decline. SWS

Didn’t the principal explicitly say you wouldn’t hear today?

Is the principal running the lottery? No, no he is not. Central office is and I received an email from them. Any other questions?