Anonymous wrote:This was bc of shutdown.

Anonymous wrote:This was bc of shutdown.

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Anonymous wrote:These people couldn’t plan their way out of a sleeping bag.

It probably has to do with the government shutdown, not FCPS lack of planning.

100% lack of planning. It was clear since the very beginning that it wasn't thought trough.

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Anonymous wrote:These people couldn’t plan their way out of a sleeping bag.

It probably has to do with the government shutdown, not FCPS lack of planning.

Anonymous wrote:These people couldn’t plan their way out of a sleeping bag.

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Anonymous wrote:From an email today. What a mess.

Dear Valued FCPS Volunteer,

Thank you for your dedication and willingness to serve our students. Your time and commitment are invaluable to our schools. We are sharing an important update to the volunteer process. Effective today, we are implementing an immediate, temporary operational change to the Level 3 volunteer background check process.

What this means for you:

Pause on Fingerprinting: Effective immediately, we are pausing the requirement for most Level 3 volunteer fingerprinting and FBI Rap Back enrollment. If you are scheduled for an upcoming fingerprinting appointment, please cancel your appointment unless you are a mentor, host parent, or non-parent volunteer having frequent, direct, and unsupervised contact with students, which will still require fingerprinting. FCPS is charged if individuals miss a fingerprinting appointment without canceling in advance.
If you have already been fingerprinted: If you have already been fingerprinted and are waiting for your Level 3 clearance, your application and fingerprint results will be processed. You may volunteer while your application is being processed. Once your application has been processed, you will receive communication directly through Volunteer FCPS regarding your status and eligibility.
New Attestation Requirement: To ensure continuous safety, all new volunteers will be required to sign a Volunteer Certification Statement. This statement is a legal attestation confirming you have no history of violent felonies, physical/sexual crimes against children, or crimes of moral turpitude. Volunteers who have already submitted an application also provided a statement regarding their criminal history in their application, and do not have any additional steps regarding this attestation.
This operational adjustment is necessary because the high volume of Level 3 applications has caused significant delays, which in turn impact our ability to clear volunteers quickly and effectively. Our goal is to streamline the process while keeping student safety as our top priority.

Please remember that you must sign in and out using the Visitor Management System (VMS) kiosk at the school front office or vestibule every time you visit a school and wear an FCPS-issued visitor/volunteer sticker at all times.

All volunteers are also still asked to refer to volunteer.fcps.edu to look for and sign up for volunteer opportunities.

We appreciate your patience, flexibility, and feedback as we deploy this new volunteer management system. Please reach out to Volunteer@fcps.edu should you have any questions or concerns about this update.

Fairfax County Public Schools

Read to me like LOTS of people werent showing up for fingerprinting appointments and it was costing a lot of money.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all the way through the process, got fingerprinted mid-September at Gatehouse and still got the email. All those who don't think they are approved, have you logged in recently? The dashboard now shows your status. That wasn't the case when my background check was approved and it was super confusing with the school liaison not being able to find me even after I'd gotten an approval email, etc.

Yep. Just logged in now and it’s still showing as “in process” and stuck on step 6 (existing volunteer verification). Started this process in September. I worked at FCPS so they literally had my fingerprints this entire time. Such an embarrassment.

Anonymous wrote:I'm all the way through the process, got fingerprinted mid-September at Gatehouse and still got the email. All those who don't think they are approved, have you logged in recently? The dashboard now shows your status. That wasn't the case when my background check was approved and it was super confusing with the school liaison not being able to find me even after I'd gotten an approval email, etc.

Anonymous wrote:I'm all the way through the process, got fingerprinted mid-September at Gatehouse and still got the email. All those who don't think they are approved, have you logged in recently? The dashboard now shows your status. That wasn't the case when my background check was approved and it was super confusing with the school liaison not being able to find me even after I'd gotten an approval email, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Who was this email sent to? Was it only sent to those with upcoming appointments? I can’t find it anywhere.

Anonymous wrote:Remember this is the second “walk back” of the original policy. The original policy rolled out right before the beginning of the school year, had the level 3 volunteers going to Gatehouse and presenting their documents in person, and getting their fingerprints done in person at Gatehouse as well. Exactly like a teacher, or other staff member who works with children, would have to do when they were hired. Obviously, Gatehouse did not have enough appointments to process all of these people, so then FCPS started the FieldPrint appointments (and, as far as I know, never made an official district wide announcement about it). This meant that you could go present your documents and get fingerprinted at an offsite location as opposed to Gatehouse, and they often had far better availability and there were more of them. Now they’re down to no fingerprints at all because, predictably, the whole requirement was an expensive clusterf*** for FCPS.