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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SPED teacher trainees often can’t do the IEP paperwork and can’t assess with individualized, normed tests. They also (often) aren’t given independent Seastars access. All of that adds up to a bigger workload for already stretched thin experienced special education teachers. One can’t teach 5 classes at 5+ different grade levels, lesson plan for those classes,  monitor progress on over 175 goals quarterly (That’s 600+ data samples quarterly), grade work and give meaningful feedback in a timely fashion, provide opportunities for remediation, communicate with parents, case manage 18 students, prepare IEPs, hold IEP meetings, send countless documents home in the time given AND do half the job of the trainee.  It’s FCPS’s way of not solving the problem.  The kids are not winning here. I am suspicious of the numbers. Who would stay?  If they are accurate, it’s because the SPED teachers are moving to another school looking for greener pastures-which aren’t likely to be found.  [/quote]

This. And on top of all this FCPS likes to play the CYA game and keeps adding time consuming paperwork to the IEP process. SPED teachers can't work with kids/deal with behaviors/monitor progress/etc and be expected to do a full time "desk" job within contract hours. SPED teachers need to start saying no and work to contract. And before you say but what about the kids I agree the kids are losing out but you go fight and ask the hard questions to Reid and Gatehouse. They are responsible and don't seem to care about the kids or the teacher shortage. SPED teachers are leaving in high numbers. You can play with numbers and visually hide truths but it doesn't make it real.[/quote]

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