Anonymous wrote:And for someone who was so positive you certainly found a lot of negatives on others. The parent took the time to meet and bring an advocate so it must have been serious. Maybe you sucked up all the positivity on the subject for yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. While I sympathize, this woman has wreaked operational havoc on the schools her children have attended. I know one AP who spent her summer dealing with document requests from her instead of working on things that were needed to open school in the fall.

She was an "advocate" for one of the students in my lower ES class. She and the mom of the child were nasty from the second we sat down in an initial meeting. I typically walk into a meeting and present a pleasant greeting and small talk. Neither would make eye contact, let alone smile. They interrupted and they looked for any opportunity to find a "gotcha" moment. I remember trying to point out some positives about the child's academic work and they didn't want to hear it. It was all very negative and stressful when all I wanted to do was work with the parent in support of the child.

I don't know. This doesn't talk about anything actually that was being worked on. I wasnt at the meeting but you seem very passive aggressive about the purpose of the intervention or IEP meeting expecting too much positivity from it and its purpose. FCPS spends too much time hiding behind positive comments to get them out of doing work. Maybe you read the meeting wrong expecting a work session to be super positive and congratulatory rather than discussing hard topics and saving the positive comments for another time or the end of the quarter or year when growth was actually achieved. If someone was bringing an advocate I would understand that they wanted to face some challenges and work on solutions. It would annoying to me as well if the meeting kept getting redirected to positives and I was paying a large sum of money to someone to work put problems. She should have redacted the staff names as well but since she runs this business it makes sense that she is a watchdog for this type of stuff. I still haven't seem FCPS say anything on it.

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Anonymous wrote:Another reason I hate all the freaking surveys asking our kids extremely personal information. All the surveys should be stopped. It would save the schools a lot of money. They never actually help any kids with it anyway.

Youngkin’s new educational models for the state say all surveys should be announced and opt in but of course FCPS bucks the rules and doesn’t follow them.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. While I sympathize, this woman has wreaked operational havoc on the schools her children have attended. I know one AP who spent her summer dealing with document requests from her instead of working on things that were needed to open school in the fall.

She was an "advocate" for one of the students in my lower ES class. She and the mom of the child were nasty from the second we sat down in an initial meeting. I typically walk into a meeting and present a pleasant greeting and small talk. Neither would make eye contact, let alone smile. They interrupted and they looked for any opportunity to find a "gotcha" moment. I remember trying to point out some positives about the child's academic work and they didn't want to hear it. It was all very negative and stressful when all I wanted to do was work with the parent in support of the child.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone in FCP screwed up big time, but this woman is unbelievable. She kept reading, kept the files, and decided she was the arbiter of how to handle this:

"Oettinger said she didn’t report the leak to district officials because she doesn’t trust them "

Come on. From another parent: “Some of the information I found out about other people’s children I don’t want to know,” said Melear, the parent who relocated to Denver."

This woman is almost just as bad as FCPS...sharing the documents!

Callie Oettinger wants FCPS to get in trouble and is constantly looking for trouble.

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A Zero Trust based system is essential to data privacy and protection, as is an insider threat program. You have to assume that people like Oettinger exist. Of course, anyone reasonable would have, upon encountering data about other students, immediately contacted the school and said there is a problem. But she has an agenda. And privacy programs must plan for people like this.

I am flabbergasted at her being able to take a flash drive home. My employer doesn't permit use of them.

I tend to agree with the lawyer in this thread who mentioned just how expensive this apparatus is. Not an excuse, though.



In a trust system, a distrustful person can wreak havoc.

Anonymous wrote:I am still shocked by how relaxed FCPS will student information. This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. Is FCPS going to respond or is it business as usual? Someone has to have insider info!

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. While I sympathize, this woman has wreaked operational havoc on the schools her children have attended. I know one AP who spent her summer dealing with document requests from her instead of working on things that were needed to open school in the fall.

Anonymous wrote:Just what you’d expect under incompetent Michelle Reid and the equally incompetent School Board that hired her.

Anonymous wrote:Another reason I hate all the freaking surveys asking our kids extremely personal information. All the surveys should be stopped. It would save the schools a lot of money. They never actually help any kids with it anyway.