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Anonymous wrote:If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

+ 1 DS and I are both in education and learned about this program early on. It was clear from the program announcement that funding was going to run out quickly. It only covered 20,000 $1500 grants, and that doesn’t even cover every student in APS. I don’t agree with the way it was structured (I think low HHI kids should’ve had priority). But, I’m not a Republican, and this strikes me as a quintessentially Republican approach.

Don’t blame the families who signed up quickly for free money. We applied early and were quickly approved. We are going to work within the rules of the program, and I’m not going to apologize for using grants we applied for and received.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

How do you determine who is more worthy of it? I call BS, and glad I voted the way I did.

Just spitballing here, but maybe put students with disabilities first in line? Youngkin has been a complete failure on doing anything for these kids. Too busy with his culture war BS. Same as it ever was.

The grant was geared toward covid learning loss not disabilities, although I agree and would like to see an increase of services for kids with disabilities. It was about his promise to undo the covid learning loss--he ran on this,he fulfilled his promise-whats the issue?

Sure. Because grants for outschool is helping SOOO much with learning loss. If he wanted to do something serious on learning loss, he could. This isn't it.

I dont know about you , but yes 4.5K is helping my family tremendously.

Not helping my 2 kids with disabilities at all. We got the email that they are out of grants. Enjoy your $4500.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

How do you determine who is more worthy of it? I call BS, and glad I voted the way I did.

Just spitballing here, but maybe put students with disabilities first in line? Youngkin has been a complete failure on doing anything for these kids. Too busy with his culture war BS. Same as it ever was.

The grant was geared toward covid learning loss not disabilities, although I agree and would like to see an increase of services for kids with disabilities. It was about his promise to undo the covid learning loss--he ran on this,he fulfilled his promise-whats the issue?

Sure. Because grants for outschool is helping SOOO much with learning loss. If he wanted to do something serious on learning loss, he could. This isn't it.

I dont know about you , but yes 4.5K is helping my family tremendously.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

How do you determine who is more worthy of it? I call BS, and glad I voted the way I did.

Just spitballing here, but maybe put students with disabilities first in line? Youngkin has been a complete failure on doing anything for these kids. Too busy with his culture war BS. Same as it ever was.

The grant was geared toward covid learning loss not disabilities, although I agree and would like to see an increase of services for kids with disabilities. It was about his promise to undo the covid learning loss--he ran on this,he fulfilled his promise-whats the issue?

Sure. Because grants for outschool is helping SOOO much with learning loss. If he wanted to do something serious on learning loss, he could. This isn't it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

How do you determine who is more worthy of it? I call BS, and glad I voted the way I did.

Just spitballing here, but maybe put students with disabilities first in line? Youngkin has been a complete failure on doing anything for these kids. Too busy with his culture war BS. Same as it ever was.

Youngkin is simply trying to clean up the mess from leftist school boards and school districts who flourished under Northam and his predecessors.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

How do you determine who is more worthy of it? I call BS, and glad I voted the way I did.

Just spitballing here, but maybe put students with disabilities first in line? Youngkin has been a complete failure on doing anything for these kids. Too busy with his culture war BS. Same as it ever was.

The grant was geared toward covid learning loss not disabilities, although I agree and would like to see an increase of services for kids with disabilities. It was about his promise to undo the covid learning loss--he ran on this,he fulfilled his promise-whats the issue?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are using this money purely for enrichment and just so you can, please consider forfeiting the funds so that those of us who really need it get a chance. I'm so angry at my neighbor who is like "oh yeah, my kid wants to do fun outschool classes this summer instead of camp, so we'll use this money for that" when my child failed his math SOL and needs intensive math remediation that we now have to pay for out of pocket.

Blame Youngkin. Not other parents. His VDOE set it up this way.

It's free money. Of course people are lining up for it whether they need it or not. Even if some parents will forfeit it in favor of kids who need it more, many others won't

How do you determine who is more worthy of it? I call BS, and glad I voted the way I did.

Just spitballing here, but maybe put students with disabilities first in line? Youngkin has been a complete failure on doing anything for these kids. Too busy with his culture war BS. Same as it ever was.

Anonymous wrote:If you applied in the past week, you will get denied. They ran out of money for Northern Virginia. I am really upset, my children really could have used this.

I got an email yesterday saying my application is Complete. Is there any chance?

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Anonymous wrote:I read all the fcps
Emails and never saw it!

Same. Seriously, its ridiculous that VA was giving out tutoring money and the school district that flunked Covid so hard didn't want their families to know about it. WTF?

Same . I would not have known about this if I had not read this thread last week. Too late, I guess. I read all the LCPS mails and I don’t remember seeing this.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone used any of the money yet? Our school is requiring you to book two weeks out. It’s so frustrating when you need help now and tutors are available. You just need to jump through hoops to get it.

That’s a lot of complaining for $1500 of free money.

You think this is "free money"? Wow.

Anonymous wrote:I read all the fcps
Emails and never saw it!

Same. Seriously, its ridiculous that VA was giving out tutoring money and the school district that flunked Covid so hard didn't want their families to know about it. WTF?

I read all the fcps
Emails and never saw it!

FCCPS did though it was muddled, I didnt understand it until I saw it here.
probably NOVA didnt like it because its from the non grata administration...

Why didn't FCPS send an email out about it

I don't understand why this wasn't publicized at all? I heard nothing until I saw this thread.