Re: FCPS Announcement\Email
Posted by:
FCPS Employee
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Date: January 06, 2015 06:31PM
show your work Wrote:
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> FCPS employee Wrote:
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> > It's funny yo me because employees got the same
> > email, just a different header. It was also
> posted
> > on the emergency section of the site. It
> actually
> > pissed off one of the unions. Very drama filled
> > emails today
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> Examples?
Dear Dr. Garza and Mr. Platenberg,
On behalf of the members of the Association of Fairfax Professional Educators (AFPE), I would like to express both disbelief and disappointment in the decision to open schools on time on Tuesday, January 6, 2015.
I am certain that you have already heard and will continue to hear from students, parents, teachers who were forced onto treacherous roads in order to get to schools this morning, so I will not recount the many stories we have gathered from our members. Instead, I will submit the following:
1) FCPS has expended extraordinary amounts of energy and money to reduce student stress and risk. It is counterintuitive and counterproductive to force them onto the roads under such treacherous weather conditions.
2) The adjustment to this year’s academic calendar “eliminates the need to make up inclement weather days at the end of the school year if fewer than 11 days are missed” (http://www.fcps.edu/news/school-year-14-15.shtml). We support taking advantage of the additional inclement weather days that this calendar change has afforded us.
3) The apology issued to employees was for the weather itself and not for the poor decision-making that put them on the roads. Local weather forecasters would argue that the information they provided was both accurate and timely enough for FCPS to have called for a delayed opening at the very least, if not for a complete closing, as many other local jurisdictions did.
Sincerely,
Becca N. Ferrick, President