Totally sympathetic with those of SN's child. Just don't happen to think that AAP or GT qualifies as "special needs". Some on this board do.

Anonymous wrote:Take it to the SN board, where they are more than happy to whine along with you. There is no room for other opinions there other than "Please commisserate with me and my special snowflake."

As the parent of a SN child, I find that the pity parties for people's fragile snowflakes actually occurs a lot more in this particular forum than in the SN one...Food for thought, people.

Anonymous wrote:I have some experience with this, and what tends to happen here in the "richest area in the country" is that the service providers don't really think about costs, since we are such a "rich" county, until the budget starts to shrink. Then we have to start picking and choosing due to staff limitations and cutbacks. That's what happened during the last slowdown. Of course we want to help all the children and families who ask, so we do when we are swimming in cash, but when things get tight, we have to triage and start actually following the procedures regarding "educational need" etc. etc.

I have had a child in FCPS for over 10 years and have never experienced a time when they were "swimming in cash". Every year they tweak the student-teacher ratio higher and higher.

I have some experience with this, and what tends to happen here in the "richest area in the country" is that the service providers don't really think about costs, since we are such a "rich" county, until the budget starts to shrink. Then we have to start picking and choosing due to staff limitations and cutbacks. That's what happened during the last slowdown. Of course we want to help all the children and families who ask, so we do when we are swimming in cash, but when things get tight, we have to triage and start actually following the procedures regarding "educational need" etc. etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Take it to the SN board, where they are more than happy to whine along with you. There is no room for other opinions there other than "Please commisserate with me and my special snowflake."

How compassionate of you.

I agree with PP. The administrator's wording was harsh, but I don't blame him/her. It must be tiring to have parents accuse you of not caring day after day. Someone in the know answered the question and was still attacked.

Answered the question? How? The "administrator" was juvenile and abusive and the "answer" was to accuse the OP of being drunk. If this person actually is an FCPS administrator, he or she did nothing to answer any question and deserved to be called out on that post.

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Anonymous wrote:Take it to the SN board, where they are more than happy to whine along with you. There is no room for other opinions there other than "Please commisserate with me and my special snowflake."

How compassionate of you.

I agree with PP. The administrator's wording was harsh, but I don't blame him/her. It must be tiring to have parents accuse you of not caring day after day. Someone in the know answered the question and was still attacked.

Anonymous wrote:Take it to the SN board, where they are more than happy to whine along with you. There is no room for other opinions there other than "Please commisserate with me and my special snowflake."

How compassionate of you.

Take it to the SN board, where they are more than happy to whine along with you. There is no room for other opinions there other than "Please commisserate with me and my special snowflake."

Anonymous wrote:FCPS admin here: no one has been told to deny children an IEP. Ever. Anywhere. This has got to be one of stupidest posts ever. What are you basing this on? Are you drunk?

Wow. If you really are in administration, but are dumb enough to say so and then accompany it with a post this vitriolic -- well, we all can see who's drunk here.

Please find a different job where you are nowhere near a school system.

Anonymous wrote:I would think ESOL would be first

Not unless they overturn quite a few laws guaranteeing ESOL services first.

Ditto. FCPS administrators are the worst. The head one at Langley either has been told its her mission in life to keep kids from getting the help they need or she seriously needs retraining. I suspect it's the former - that she has been told her job is a gatekeeper to keep kids from getting services. If so, then the school is in violation of federal law - but she's been at it forever. Can't explained it, but I agree with OP. Unless you are a lawyer, have a lawyer or have an excellent shrink go in to bat with you for an IEP you likely won't get it. It pains me how many parents are frustrated with the system and give up and go private because they can't get what is promised them under the law.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS admin here: no one has been told to deny children an IEP. Ever. Anywhere. This has got to be one of stupidest posts ever. What are you basing this on? Are you drunk?

Wow. I hope you don't represent the quality of the administration in FCPS.

I would think ESOL would be first

FCPS admin here: no one has been told to deny children an IEP. Ever. Anywhere. This has got to be one of stupidest posts ever. What are you basing this on? Are you drunk?

Didn't know if I should post here or special needs board. With all the looming budget cuts, were admins told to do everything they can to cheat kids out of services they would have gotten easily just a few years ago? I can tell some of our IEP team doesn't even believe what they say, but it's like they are forced to lie to us and claim any low test scores were because of things like DD didn't feel well that day or she didn't put forth effort. Kids are even losing IEPs who clearly still need them.