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

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Anonymous wrote:Why is FCPS being singled out? Every other county did the exact same thing. Did Arlington, Loudoun, Alexandria, falls church, Prince William send providers to student houses to do speech or PT during the pandemic?

As far as I can remember, all the counties were essentially doing to same thing.

When APS parents kicked FCPS out of the Virginia Schools forum, it engendered a great deal of myopia, across the board.

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Anonymous wrote:What would moving to PW do? These IEPs have to be done by the end of THIS school year. Then it’s over.

FCPS will be providing services (and looking for teachers to do it or pay private vendors) well into the summer and next year.

We haven’t had the training yet, but I’ve heard this and also before/after school. I haven’t heard anyone say they are willing to do it though.

Many teachers had the training over the teacher workdays. Before/after school, weekends, summers seem to be the days/times that FCPS is communicating.

PP here. Yes, that’s what we are hearing, but the teachers I know have so far said, “Not me”. I heard the pay is $60 something per hour, but I wonder if that will just pull people away from teaching summer school and then they’ll end up even more short staffed there.

Parents aren't going to sign up for it either.

Parent here- the compensatory services are two years too late and I am sure they will stink. And parents are like teachers- basically forced to go to more meetings that are a total waste of time. We know FCPS doesn’t care about our kids and they proved it when they basically said no services given/IEPs won’t be followed for over a year. I am glad someone is trying to hold FCPS accountable but it is poorly executed (as expected).

Are they counting March-June 2020? The Governor closed school for the remainder of that academic year.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in my 13th year with FCPS and I’ve had it. The new ruling about compensatory education will put me over the edge as a SpEd teacher when I’m expected to hold 500 meetings in addition to my every day job. The pay is feeling more and more like a slap in the face on a daily basis. The county never advertised the fact that the W-4 needed to be changed this year and I’m stuck owing taxes for the first time ever (I know, not totally their fault).
I’m so pissed that this is all being put on our plate and then being told we should be happy with a 3% raise. I can’t even afford to live anymore.
So, do you think she’d actually read it?

Start by spelling her name correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:What would moving to PW do? These IEPs have to be done by the end of THIS school year. Then it’s over.

FCPS will be providing services (and looking for teachers to do it or pay private vendors) well into the summer and next year.

We haven’t had the training yet, but I’ve heard this and also before/after school. I haven’t heard anyone say they are willing to do it though.

Many teachers had the training over the teacher workdays. Before/after school, weekends, summers seem to be the days/times that FCPS is communicating.

PP here. Yes, that’s what we are hearing, but the teachers I know have so far said, “Not me”. I heard the pay is $60 something per hour, but I wonder if that will just pull people away from teaching summer school and then they’ll end up even more short staffed there.

Parents aren't going to sign up for it either.

I’m PP and not counting March 2020-June 2020. I was speaking more so in the 2020-2021 SY

Parent here- the compensatory services are two years too late and I am sure they will stink. And parents are like teachers- basically forced to go to more meetings that are a total waste of time. We know FCPS doesn’t care about our kids and they proved it when they basically said no services given/IEPs won’t be followed for over a year. I am glad someone is trying to hold FCPS accountable but it is poorly executed (as expected).

Are they counting March-June 2020? The Governor closed school for the remainder of that academic year.

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Anonymous wrote:What would moving to PW do? These IEPs have to be done by the end of THIS school year. Then it’s over.

FCPS will be providing services (and looking for teachers to do it or pay private vendors) well into the summer and next year.

We haven’t had the training yet, but I’ve heard this and also before/after school. I haven’t heard anyone say they are willing to do it though.

Many teachers had the training over the teacher workdays. Before/after school, weekends, summers seem to be the days/times that FCPS is communicating.

PP here. Yes, that’s what we are hearing, but the teachers I know have so far said, “Not me”. I heard the pay is $60 something per hour, but I wonder if that will just pull people away from teaching summer school and then they’ll end up even more short staffed there.

Parents aren't going to sign up for it either.

I’m PP and not counting March 2020-June 2020. I was speaking more so in the 2020-2021 SY

Parent here- the compensatory services are two years too late and I am sure they will stink. And parents are like teachers- basically forced to go to more meetings that are a total waste of time. We know FCPS doesn’t care about our kids and they proved it when they basically said no services given/IEPs won’t be followed for over a year. I am glad someone is trying to hold FCPS accountable but it is poorly executed (as expected).

Are they counting March-June 2020? The Governor closed school for the remainder of that academic year.

Yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is FCPS being singled out? Every other county did the exact same thing. Did Arlington, Loudoun, Alexandria, falls church, Prince William send providers to student houses to do speech or PT during the pandemic?

As far as I can remember, all the counties were essentially doing to same thing.

Not during the pandemic, APS did some compensatory services summer 2021, did FCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is FCPS being singled out? Every other county did the exact same thing. Did Arlington, Loudoun, Alexandria, falls church, Prince William send providers to student houses to do speech or PT during the pandemic?

As far as I can remember, all the counties were essentially doing to same thing.

Not during the pandemic, APS did some compensatory services summer 2021, did FCPS?

They did some recovery services. I can only speak to our experience—it started out great for 1-2 weeks, but the staff assigned was promoted and services stopped cold turkey.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is FCPS being singled out? Every other county did the exact same thing. Did Arlington, Loudoun, Alexandria, falls church, Prince William send providers to student houses to do speech or PT during the pandemic?

As far as I can remember, all the counties were essentially doing to same thing.

Not during the pandemic, APS did some compensatory services summer 2021, did FCPS?

Yes, fcps did extra recovery services over the summer, plus before and after school all school year. There have been a lot of opportunities to get additional support

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At the very least, all SpEd teachers deserve a hefty stipend. Even if a parent says no to services, we still have to hold a meeting to document it. Do you know that’s something like 600 meetings for a school the size of say Robinson or Westfield?
So even without factoring in delivering the actually services, the meeting and data digs are going to take hours per kid.

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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.

No, it isn’t, you smug, insufferable snot.

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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.

Huh? I worked my ass off during the pandemic. Troll

But…but you didn’t babysit for them! You didn’t FORCE teachers/speech/PT/OT to work face to face with their precious bebes in 2020 during a respiratory-transmissible pandemic (as if you even could force them, because teachers and providers didn’t enlist in the military) BUT BUT BUT!!

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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.

Contain your joy. The vast majority of teachers aren’t going to do it and won’t be forced.

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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.

It’s more about the “Temporary Learning Plans” that were put in place. Never should have put in writing that the IEP hours & services were being reduced.

It was an emergency, a state and federal emergency. Things aren't business as usual during an emergency. It made sense to make temporary IEPs for kids then. Instead of just lying.

Illegal

Oh well. It was a pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in my 13th year with FCPS and I’ve had it. The new ruling about compensatory education will put me over the edge as a SpEd teacher when I’m expected to hold 500 meetings in addition to my every day job. The pay is feeling more and more like a slap in the face on a daily basis. The county never advertised the fact that the W-4 needed to be changed this year and I’m stuck owing taxes for the first time ever (I know, not totally their fault).
I’m so pissed that this is all being put on our plate and then being told we should be happy with a 3% raise. I can’t even afford to live anymore.
So, do you think she’d actually read it?

Start by spelling her name correctly.

This was covered on the first page. Stop embarrassing yourself. (not OP)

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Anonymous wrote:Why is FCPS being singled out? Every other county did the exact same thing. Did Arlington, Loudoun, Alexandria, falls church, Prince William send providers to student houses to do speech or PT during the pandemic?

As far as I can remember, all the counties were essentially doing to same thing.

This is the big whale, along with LA schools. Huge districts. It’s a basically a “Hey, go figure this out so that we can then tell other school districts what to do.”