Anonymous wrote:Schools are by law required to provide these services and are in fact funded to do so. It's a shame fcps can't deliver so in that case they need to pay up

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Anonymous wrote:My child's FCPS speech therapist moved to another state and took another full time private job while simultaneously staying employed by FCPS. She showed up for one "virtual" speech meeting all year.

Our school's case manager offered every student from our school who was assigned to that speech therapist four additional 30 minute speech sessions as compensatory services. We turned it down b/c our child is now in MS and we didn't want him to lose instructional time.

Regardless, I don't see how any family that agreed to such a small compensatory offer is "taking advantage" of FCPS. If a family had sought out private speech therapy to make up for this FCPS therapist who should have been fired, they should be reimbursed.

Your statements are likely inaccurate and assumptions about the speech therapist. I’m sorry your child didn’t have a therapist, but based on details in your post which are likely not accurate, it is not likely because of the pandemic. Staffing shortages exist even in non- pandemic times.

Not sure why you think I don't know what happened. The ST he was supposed to meet with was listed as a new therapist taking appointments on a private therapy website, in another state. Unusual name, photo on website, clearly her. She had lots of excuses regarding why she missed the scheduled virtual appointments. She was an FCPS employee who didn't seem to show up to do any work. What am I assuming that's inaccurate?

If this is true, I would reach out to the state licensing boards of both states.

I would also contact the Virginia Medicaid office in writing. https://www.dmas.virginia.gov/about-us/contact/

FCPS bills Virginia Medicaid for speech, OT, PT etc for students who are on Medicaid. If this provider had FCPS students with Medicaid on her case load and she was billing from out of state without permission, Virginia DMAS would want to know.

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Anonymous wrote:My child's FCPS speech therapist moved to another state and took another full time private job while simultaneously staying employed by FCPS. She showed up for one "virtual" speech meeting all year.

Our school's case manager offered every student from our school who was assigned to that speech therapist four additional 30 minute speech sessions as compensatory services. We turned it down b/c our child is now in MS and we didn't want him to lose instructional time.

Regardless, I don't see how any family that agreed to such a small compensatory offer is "taking advantage" of FCPS. If a family had sought out private speech therapy to make up for this FCPS therapist who should have been fired, they should be reimbursed.

Your statements are likely inaccurate and assumptions about the speech therapist. I’m sorry your child didn’t have a therapist, but based on details in your post which are likely not accurate, it is not likely because of the pandemic. Staffing shortages exist even in non- pandemic times.

Not sure why you think I don't know what happened. The ST he was supposed to meet with was listed as a new therapist taking appointments on a private therapy website, in another state. Unusual name, photo on website, clearly her. She had lots of excuses regarding why she missed the scheduled virtual appointments. She was an FCPS employee who didn't seem to show up to do any work. What am I assuming that's inaccurate?

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Anonymous wrote:To clarify your point- that was For a very small number of students with very severe disabilities. The bulk of FCPS families asking for reimbursement and services have children do not have children with those severe disabilities (e.g. ID, PSCB services). Most FCPS families asking for reimbursement or services are indeed milking this to their own advantage- and no- other families across the country and in other counties did not sue and are not doing the same. Let alone complaining that their reimbursements are taking too long. SMH.

Where's your proof for that statement? 6000 current and former students were deemed by their IEP teams to qualify for compensatory services. Only a small number of those 6000 are getting any kind of financial compensation whatsoever.

People in this thread have specified what FCPS has agreed to reimburse for. Which of those requests do you think is unreasonable?

This makes me laugh out loud....FCPS wanted to put this huge burden on top of teachers shoulders and repeatedly refused to oversee or answer important questions in true FCPS style. It was a dumpster fire process.

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Anonymous wrote:To clarify your point- that was For a very small number of students with very severe disabilities. The bulk of FCPS families asking for reimbursement and services have children do not have children with those severe disabilities (e.g. ID, PSCB services). Most FCPS families asking for reimbursement or services are indeed milking this to their own advantage- and no- other families across the country and in other counties did not sue and are not doing the same. Let alone complaining that their reimbursements are taking too long. SMH.

Where's your proof for that statement? 6000 current and former students were deemed by their IEP teams to qualify for compensatory services. Only a small number of those 6000 are getting any kind of financial compensation whatsoever.

People in this thread have specified what FCPS has agreed to reimburse for. Which of those requests do you think is unreasonable?

Anonymous wrote:To clarify your point- that was For a very small number of students with very severe disabilities. The bulk of FCPS families asking for reimbursement and services have children do not have children with those severe disabilities (e.g. ID, PSCB services). Most FCPS families asking for reimbursement or services are indeed milking this to their own advantage- and no- other families across the country and in other counties did not sue and are not doing the same. Let alone complaining that their reimbursements are taking too long. SMH.

Anonymous wrote:To clarify your point- that was For a very small number of students with very severe disabilities. The bulk of FCPS families asking for reimbursement and services have children do not have children with those severe disabilities (e.g. ID, PSCB services). Most FCPS families asking for reimbursement or services are indeed milking this to their own advantage- and no- other families across the country and in other counties did not sue and are not doing the same. Let alone complaining that their reimbursements are taking too long. SMH.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS employees double-dipping with private employment during Covid is a huge issue that FCPS has managed to sweep under the rug. I have heard of two different STs who did this (in addition I guess to 8:42s). One of my dc's high school PE teachers canceled class multiple times b/c he was going out of town to referee in person lacrosse games in areas that weren't shut down.

A teacher at our elementary school submitted and was granted an ADA request to teach from home.

And then proceeded to go to Disney and posted photos to the public on Instagram.

That happened all over the country! Doesn’t mean your entitled to reimbursement or extra services from tax payer dollars.

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Anonymous wrote:My child's FCPS speech therapist moved to another state and took another full time private job while simultaneously staying employed by FCPS. She showed up for one "virtual" speech meeting all year.

Our school's case manager offered every student from our school who was assigned to that speech therapist four additional 30 minute speech sessions as compensatory services. We turned it down b/c our child is now in MS and we didn't want him to lose instructional time.

Regardless, I don't see how any family that agreed to such a small compensatory offer is "taking advantage" of FCPS. If a family had sought out private speech therapy to make up for this FCPS therapist who should have been fired, they should be reimbursed.

Your statements are likely inaccurate and assumptions about the speech therapist. I’m sorry your child didn’t have a therapist, but based on details in your post which are likely not accurate, it is not likely because of the pandemic. Staffing shortages exist even in non- pandemic times.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS employees double-dipping with private employment during Covid is a huge issue that FCPS has managed to sweep under the rug. I have heard of two different STs who did this (in addition I guess to 8:42s). One of my dc's high school PE teachers canceled class multiple times b/c he was going out of town to referee in person lacrosse games in areas that weren't shut down.

A teacher at our elementary school submitted and was granted an ADA request to teach from home.

And then proceeded to go to Disney and posted photos to the public on Instagram.