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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We heard at our IEP meeting that evening and weekend compensatory hours were available from non-FCPS teachers. No one is making teachers do this work. [/quote]

Who do you think is combing through the IEPs from the last few years and holding extra meetings on top of the already way-too-full
schedules? What services are being provided to the students while the teachers are dealing with this? They can’t teach and do this at the same time.[/quote]

Aside from pay, which I agree should be more, what do you suggest? Not provide IEPs? Additional services? Or outsource it altogether?[/quote]

I'm one of the Special Ed teachers who responded upthread. Central Office should be handling all of it with the possible exception of delivering services. I'd be a lot more willing to provide the compensatory services myself if I had time. I don't, because of all the extra paperwork and meetings I'm now required to handle. [/quote]

It looks like it is being handled in the annual IEP meetings. How is that such a huge burden?  [/quote]

If you have 15 kids on your caseload and you've already held annual IEP meetings for half of them this year, guess what? You have to meet with those parents again. If the parents don't want to meet, you still have to do all the data digging and figure out which, if any, services their child may be entitled to. If the parents do want services or have receipts and want reimbursement from past services, you have to schedule yet another meeting where Central Office does get involved before anyone cuts a check. Oh, and you also have to make sub plans for the times when you won't be in your classroom teaching your regular students because you're in a meeting. I don't have enough planning time to do all of that in addition to regular lesson plans, grading, data collection, and meetings, so it gets done off the clock. I have my own family and kids and am not interested in missing any more time with them to make a couple extra bucks.

[b]That doesn't include the kids who have left your school. You also have to run their numbers and offer their parents a meeting[/b].[/quote]

INCORRECT. You do not have to offer them a meeting. If they reach out to you for a meeting, you have it. But you are not supposed to contact them. FCPS already did that. [/quote]

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