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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It means that if a child didn't make "adequate" progress during the virtual part of the pandemic then they are in need of additional services. It could mean that they had trouble accessing virtual services due to lack of equipment, had trouble attending, did not learn in that manner, etc. The trouble is that you need to document for every student and hold a meeting and document in several places. It's very time consuming. It's a lot of work and then the services being offered are not much.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is to make up for work that wasn’t done during the pandemic, right? So I guess it evens out.[/quote]

The irony is that the superintendent and school board decided to keep schools closed while most of the country returned. And FCPS was dumb enough to put it into writing that they would fix this instead of just saying from the start that they will do their best.

And this affects All teachers even if these students weren’t in FCPS at the time. Even kids last year who had IEP  and in school. [/quote]

All students could return to school as soon as the teachers were vaccinated.  What more could you want? Absolutely no one should have had to work in person until they were vaccinated.  Absolutely no one.[/quote]

Whatever. Most of the country was back in school that year.

And then last year most of the country wasn’t requiring masks, doing 10 day pauses and all the crap FCPS pulled.

I’m saying this as teacher. And no kids weren’t back until a few months after teachers were vaccinated and even then many schools could only offered 2 days in and 2 days out. No one was back in school 5 days a week. [/quote]

NP.  As a parent who wanted my kids to be back in the building, I was frustrated at how the 2020-2021 school year started - but it was clear that FCPS was complying with CDC guidelines with all the restrictions.  Some states ignored the CDC, Virginia didn't.

TBH, I don't understand what the compensatory services agreement is about, if it's just about virtual school or something else.  I can see how the additional meetings are a burden.  Will there also be additional services to make up for the learning losses from the pandemic?  What does that even mean?[/quote]

It means more services. I’m happy. FCPS screwed up big time.  Time to make it right.[/quote][/quote]

Can you explain further?  What services are being offered?  What are the metrics for progress?[/quote]

Services being offered are individual to the student and what progress wasn’t made.

Johnny usually makes 1 year of growth in reading levels during a normal school year, but during virtual only grew half a year? Maybe an hour of private tutoring once a week after school to work on reading.

Suzy has an IEP for speech but didn’t get a physical person present because FCPS was not meeting in person and therefor made minimal progress in speech goals because no one was able to physically shape her mouth? She will qualify to have a SP come to her house on Saturday for an extra 30 minutes a week.

Larlo’s parents were worried he was going to fall behind during virtual so hired a math tutor (and have receipts to prove it?) They may be able to submit those receipts for reimbursement, if he didn’t get his math pull out accommodations.

A kid who usually makes minimal growth in reading and online made minimal growth in reading should not qualify. A child who usually keeps up with grade level expectations and online met grade level benchmarks won’t qualify. There has to be proof (through testing data, sol scores, IEP narratives) that less than normal progress was made that year.[/quote]

THANK YOU!  This is so much clearer than what they gave to parents.

How do they handle reimbursement?  If a child did not receive 20 hours of speech, but you have 20 hours of private speech sessions, is this an automatic reimbursement? [/quote]

That was not explained to staff.  Teachers are to create a portfolio of documentation related to the goals that were in the IEP when the pandemic hit, and during.  They will meet (with the family) to decide if similar progress was/was not made base on the student's typical amount of progress.  They mark the file as "yes, compensatory" or "no, not compensatory".  Then lawyers in central office will determine actual reimbursement.[/quote]

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