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Anonymous wrote:I just can’t believe they are going to overburden everyone with more stupid iep and 504 meetings.

Yup-what parents don't take in consideration is all these meetings take teachers away from the kids.

I'm sure some think that the meetings will be mean more attention for their children. Maybe they have a point. Any kid without an IEP or 504 who has a teacher with kids who do have IEPs is certainly getting less time

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Anonymous wrote:I just can’t believe they are going to overburden everyone with more stupid iep and 504 meetings.

Yup-what parents don't take in consideration is all these meetings take teachers away from the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:The Office of Civil Right’s investigation “found that the School Division inappropriately reduced and limited services provided to students with disabilities, based on considerations other than the students’ individual educational needs, and failed to adequately remedy these denials of FAPE.” OCR said it also “identified concerns with staffing shortages and other administrative obstacles that may have limited the School Division’s provision of FAPE, as well as its ability to sufficiently track its FAPE services."

So FCPS was unable to provide FAPE because of staffing shortages and other obstacles - because there was a pandemic.

I have saved an email from the school reading specialist who was working 1-on-1 with my daughter per her IEP that basically said she couldn’t do the 1-on-1 virtually because she was watching her own children.

It still makes me laugh that she put it in writing and thought that was a valid reason to not do her job.

Yup. I’m a lawyer. I can’t imagine telling my clients I can’t write the brief because I’m watching my kids.

Seriously? As a lawyer, you make the kind of salary where you can find a good sitter during a pandemic. No wonder teachers are leaving in droves. I am a mom of a child with autism and even she understands finances play a role here.

Anonymous wrote:So we're talking about one year of virtual schooling that kids need to be offered compensatory services for. We left in March 2020 and kids were allowed to come back in person around the same time in 2021. Then we were back in school full time in person in Fall of 2021 and have been ever since. Compensatory services have already been offered to some families and it's virtually impossible to find someone willing to do the job. Special education is a ginormous, unwieldy beast that is grossly underfunded. Not a chance in hell all of these compensatory services are going to happen even if they promise it (see previous MCPS poster's anecdote).

Anonymous wrote:I just can’t believe they are going to overburden everyone with more stupid iep and 504 meetings.

Anonymous wrote:If fcps doesn't hire or can't retain staff , give them vocuhers to chose a competent private school

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Anonymous wrote:What about those whose grades suffered because they didn’t get adequate services and they didn’t get into a college that they could’ve gotten into and instead kids who weren’t disadvantaged in that way, got in?

While children with special education needs were disproportionately affected, closing schools as long as they did had a detrimental effect on most students. I have relatives who lived in states where their children went back to full time in-person school during the Fall of 2021 while FCPS school board whined about how dangerous it was to open schools and kept delaying opening schools. I have a child with a learning disability with an IEP and needs a tremendous amount of help. My other child has executive functioning deficits and would succeed in school with some help. However, if you don't have an IEP, it's very difficult to get the extra help. Therefore, I pushed and pushed until that child got an IEP. It's unfortunate that there's no in-between. You either have an IEP and get help, or you don't have an IEP, and then there's very little or no help. There are lots of students in the in between stage that could use extra support but the system is not set up to help those children.

This is very true and not ok.

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Anonymous wrote:If fcps doesn't hire or can't retain staff , give them vocuhers to chose a competent private school

I wonder if that’s what they’ll have to do for those who no longer live in Fairfax County.

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Anonymous wrote:What about those whose grades suffered because they didn’t get adequate services and they didn’t get into a college that they could’ve gotten into and instead kids who weren’t disadvantaged in that way, got in?

While children with special education needs were disproportionately affected, closing schools as long as they did had a detrimental effect on most students. I have relatives who lived in states where their children went back to full time in-person school during the Fall of 2021 while FCPS school board whined about how dangerous it was to open schools and kept delaying opening schools. I have a child with a learning disability with an IEP and needs a tremendous amount of help. My other child has executive functioning deficits and would succeed in school with some help. However, if you don't have an IEP, it's very difficult to get the extra help. Therefore, I pushed and pushed until that child got an IEP. It's unfortunate that there's no in-between. You either have an IEP and get help, or you don't have an IEP, and then there's very little or no help. There are lots of students in the in between stage that could use extra support but the system is not set up to help those children.

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Anonymous wrote:The Office of Civil Right’s investigation “found that the School Division inappropriately reduced and limited services provided to students with disabilities, based on considerations other than the students’ individual educational needs, and failed to adequately remedy these denials of FAPE.” OCR said it also “identified concerns with staffing shortages and other administrative obstacles that may have limited the School Division’s provision of FAPE, as well as its ability to sufficiently track its FAPE services."

So FCPS was unable to provide FAPE because of staffing shortages and other obstacles - because there was a pandemic.

I have saved an email from the school reading specialist who was working 1-on-1 with my daughter per her IEP that basically said she couldn’t do the 1-on-1 virtually because she was watching her own children.

It still makes me laugh that she put it in writing and thought that was a valid reason to not do her job.

Yup. I’m a lawyer. I can’t imagine telling my clients I can’t write the brief because I’m watching my kids.

Seriously? As a lawyer, you make the kind of salary where you can find a good sitter during a pandemic. No wonder teachers are leaving in droves. I am a mom of a child with autism and even she understands finances play a role here.

Do you realize that not all lawyers are well-paid? Many lawyers doing government work, especially at the state level (public defenders, prosecutors, other government attorneys), make comparable salaries to teachers in the DMV and are granted few accommodations when it comes to getting the job done. They don't get to use low wages as an excuse not to do their jobs.

Anonymous wrote:If fcps doesn't hire or can't retain staff , give them vocuhers to chose a competent private school

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Anonymous wrote:What about those whose grades suffered because they didn’t get adequate services and they didn’t get into a college that they could’ve gotten into and instead kids who weren’t disadvantaged in that way, got in?

While children with special education needs were disproportionately affected, closing schools as long as they did had a detrimental effect on most students. I have relatives who lived in states where their children went back to full time in-person school during the Fall of 2021 while FCPS school board whined about how dangerous it was to open schools and kept delaying opening schools. I have a child with a learning disability with an IEP and needs a tremendous amount of help. My other child has executive functioning deficits and would succeed in school with some help. However, if you don't have an IEP, it's very difficult to get the extra help. Therefore, I pushed and pushed until that child got an IEP. It's unfortunate that there's no in-between. You either have an IEP and get help, or you don't have an IEP, and then there's very little or no help. There are lots of students in the in between stage that could use extra support but the system is not set up to help those children.