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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had our meeting last week. The compensatory hours offered are miniscule and would happen over the summer based on staff actually applying to work during that time. Hopefully it is better and more meaningful than Recovery Services were. (Such a joke.) I don’t need childcare—I always pay for camps—but starting services at 10am (or an even more inconvenient time 11am? 1pm?) will just show me they were hoping parents bailed due to inconvenience (Aja needing to keep their jobs) and they can check the box that they were offered.

Trying not to be so jaded, but old habits die hard.[/quote]

Teachers are feeling jaded too and taken advantage of. I don't know many teachers willing to raise their hand for this. Good luck![/quote]

In all seriousness. What did teachers think would happen when they were given a pass on fulfilling taxpayer-funded job duties? The services are called compensatory because they are meant to COMPENSATE for all the services kids didn't get.[/quote]

If this were about teachers not "fulfilling taxpayer funded job duties" then general education students would be getting compensatory services as well.

This is about a small group of students needing highly specialized services that didn't get them (blind, deaf, ID, etc).  The majority of special education students sat in those virtual classes right there alongside their peers and learned just as well as the rest of them.  But because all of special education is covered under the same laws, the compensatory services have to be offered to all.  We sat in my daughter's meeting the other day and completely agreed that she received appropriate services during COVID and made good progress, so we rejected the compensatory services.  A lot of parents are doing that.  Because, again, this lawsuit wasn't really for their students.

And the fact that the 2021-2022 school year is included in this mess is stupid as well.  Everyone was back in person at that point and if you weren't, it's because you chose not to be, therefore, any services you didn't receive at that point were on you.

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It’s actually about a legal obligation - IEP/504 is a contract that the school did not deliver on. and is not a small group.  It’s almost 30,000 students.

FCPS is reimbursing left and right for tutoring if parents bring receipts to meetings.  But parents who did not pay for services already will not get a lot unfortunately.  [/quote]

so glad they care about 30,000 of the 180,000 students they educate. [/quote]

Ha. My kid has an IEP and has been in and out of contract/day schools for almost ten years. With long stretches (years), out, with no school to attend. Trust me, there are lots of kids with IEPs who are not being educated by FCPS. [/quote]

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