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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

NP. I applied for that tutoring position as soon as the link went live, early this year (or maybe it was last year?). I've never heard back.

So typical. I am a former teacher and applied to be a substitute when they were screaming about having no teachers, and it took a full 6 months to hear back. At which point I wasn't interested anymore. FCPS cries about teacher shortages, but doesn't even take the most obvious steps to improve the situation, like hiring the qualified people who apply.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

Post article talking about nova district tutoring programs. FCPS started way before the state initiative and is currently in 95 schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/01/14/school-tutoring-program-
northern-virgina-districts/

They have 198 schools. What about the other half?

I think it takes a while to fill the tutoring positions. In the fall the ES from which I retired was looking for someone to provide high impact tutoring. They contacted me and I was interested, but ended up not being eligible.

Anonymous wrote:It appears that Tutor.com is the plan.

Hire a tutor on your own and do not wait for FCPS to do their jobs.

FCPS is ultimately run by recently-elected, DEI-obsessed morons.

FCPS is increasingly incompetent.

Either hire your own tutors or consider private school.

Did you read the article? They’re working on it. They’re far ahead of other jurisdictions and started before the state program

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

Post article talking about nova district tutoring programs. FCPS started way before the state initiative and is currently in 95 schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/01/14/school-tutoring-program-
northern-virgina-districts/

They have 198 schools. What about the other half?

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

Post article talking about nova district tutoring programs. FCPS started way before the state initiative and is currently in 95 schools. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/01/14/school-tutoring-program-northern-virgina-districts/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

We have? Where? Not at my Title 1 school. And nothing has been offered off-campus or after school to anyone who has failed.

All over. They have been hiring since last summer for the jobs. Here is a write up- https://www.fcps.edu/family-resources/tutoring-options-fcps/fcps-person-high-impact-tutoring#:~:text=High%2Dimpact%20tutoring%20pairs%20no,ensure%20effective%20and%20continued%20progress.

NP. I applied for that tutoring position as soon as the link went live, early this year (or maybe it was last year?). I've never heard back.

FCPS HR is absolutely horrible. Every time I need to deal with them, it’s some sort of new horrible experience. I cannot figure out why they are uniquely bad at their jobs or if all HR people are incompetent.

Children are at school for 7 hours, and two of those hours are for lunch, recess, and specials. There is only so much time in a school day. Teachers are teaching and working very hard. Many children do not meet benchmarks or “fail SOL” all over the country. Some of these children have low IQs, are just learning English, and have ADHD and can’t attend and are unmedicated or undiagnosed. Schools also don’t encourage practice of learning at home or HW nowadays because of inequality. Class sizes are large. Only one teacher per class except for Kindergarten. Kids have poor behavior that disrupts learning, and parents aren't disciplining or spending time with children at home. Not as many experienced and qualified elementary teachers because of low-pay and the entitled, litigious parents in FCPS (especially sped).

The point is there are many reasons why kids are not on benchmark besides that FCPS or teachers are failures at teaching. Ignorant assumptions and unreasonable expectations are rampant on this forum. Very quick to always blame the public school system and teachers. FCPS obviously has room for improvement, but is doing alot of things right and we are lucky to have the opportunities here in this district.

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Anonymous wrote:Op: Why not hire a tutor on your own? I pay my son’s tutor as it’s my responsibility.

Not everyone can afford several hundred dollars a month, PP. Surely you understand this?

NP: I don’t see how it’s the responsibility of the school to provide outside tutoring for children. Online tutoring has been available for a while now.

Because the governor said so and allocated money towards it.

Congress did so also, with two COVID bills. Most of that money was supposed to be spent on recovery for learning loss. While tutoring isn't legally mandated, some recovery use of the money is.

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Anonymous wrote:Op: Why not hire a tutor on your own? I pay my son’s tutor as it’s my responsibility.

Not everyone can afford several hundred dollars a month, PP. Surely you understand this?

NP: I don’t see how it’s the responsibility of the school to provide outside tutoring for children. Online tutoring has been available for a while now.

Because the school is the one failing to teach these kids.

Anonymous wrote:Again, maybe yelling isn’t the answer. Teachers don’t like being yelled at. We are all working very hard and everyone yelling and telling us we don’t do our jobs makes good teachers leave. And so, here we are, begging unqualified people to teach so at least there is someone there while people keep yelling.

I didn’t say there isn’t learning loss. I said yelling about virtual learning- which isn’t going to happen again- isn’t helpful. Let’s support teachers and get kids the services they need. That’s all.

I think the yelling is actually meant to be at the politicians (school board on up) and bureaucrats (Gatehouse through to the federal DOE) NOT the teachers.

Again, maybe yelling isn’t the answer. Teachers don’t like being yelled at. We are all working very hard and everyone yelling and telling us we don’t do our jobs makes good teachers leave. And so, here we are, begging unqualified people to teach so at least there is someone there while people keep yelling.

I didn’t say there isn’t learning loss. I said yelling about virtual learning- which isn’t going to happen again- isn’t helpful. Let’s support teachers and get kids the services they need. That’s all.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

For children who do not have IEPs?

Yes. I tutor 12 hours a week and I don’t think any of my students have IEPs. It’s $48 an hour so I think that’s pretty good. Plus I enjoy my school and students. It took HR forever to get their act together but it’s worth it.

And let’s all stop yelling about the pandemic and virtual learning. It’s over. There were hard choices and different states and schools made different decisions and there’s learning loss across the country whether or not schools closed or stayed open. Research has shown that it’s much more complicated than just closing schools. Let’s just meet students where they are and fill in their gaps. We can’t change the past.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2022/10/28/23429271/learning-loss-remote-learning-high-poverty-schools-harvard-stanford-research/

OK, I'll tell the NYT to stop freaking out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/pandemic-school-learning-loss.html

I agree that test scores were starting to go down before the pandemic, but the point of the "yelling" is to get school districts to get off their tails and try and help kids who need it, regardless of the cause. Remember all the funding that was funneled to education? They're supposed to be spending for things just like ALL IN VIRGINIA.

Anonymous wrote:It appears that Tutor.com is the plan.

Hire a tutor on your own and do not wait for FCPS to do their jobs.

Education is not FCPS’ job.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS has been doing intensive, in person tutoring for months. Arlington is late to the game.

For children who do not have IEPs?

Yes. I tutor 12 hours a week and I don’t think any of my students have IEPs. It’s $48 an hour so I think that’s pretty good. Plus I enjoy my school and students. It took HR forever to get their act together but it’s worth it.

And let’s all stop yelling about the pandemic and virtual learning. It’s over. There were hard choices and different states and schools made different decisions and there’s learning loss across the country whether or not schools closed or stayed open. Research has shown that it’s much more complicated than just closing schools. Let’s just meet students where they are and fill in their gaps. We can’t change the past.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2022/10/28/23429271/learning-loss-remote-learning-high-poverty-schools-harvard-stanford-research/