ACPS now closed for the entire thanksgiving week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our family supports it. Three weeks seems to be ample notice. After all, LCPS got only a week notice when their system did the same thing.

LCPS is hardly a shining example to follow.

When will the two days of lost academic instruction be made up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What do you mean, treated respectfully? Are you viewing people's distress over a last minute decision to provide additional days off, with no childcare provisions or assistance, as disrespect to you? If so, why? Do you feel that respect necessarily encompasses additional days off, with no coverage, and people being happy about how that lack of coverage impacts them? Or is there a separate lack of respect that you are referencing?


Your response is a good example. Your "distress" about the two days is nothing over which I have any control and I don't understand why you are attacking me about it. By "treated respectfully" I mean that tone and word choice matter. When you speak with, Zoom with, text with or email your child's teacher, tone and word choice matter.

Are you one of my son's three ACPS teachers that never responds to my calls or emails about why you are not implementing his IEP, perhaps? If so, that could be the reason that the tone is escalating.

You are lashing out at the wrong person. Why haven't you contacting** the principal or your child's case manager? I certainly would have. Instead of doing something productive, though, you're here being a keyboard warrior trying to impress the rest of us that you can beat this teacher into submission.

Sign me as a parent who is not impressed. Although I do respect that you indubitably proved the teacher's point. So there is that.

*contacted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It has been an unbelievably stressful year. We all feel pushed to the breaking point. The lack of subs means that none of us have had a regular classroom, without extra kids split up from an absent teacher's classroom, in over a month. The general feeling is that this is a sign that what we're doing is valued even if we aren't being treated respectfully by parents. It means a lot.

What do you mean, treated respectfully? Are you viewing people's distress over a last minute decision to provide additional days off, with no childcare provisions or assistance, as disrespect to you? If so, why? Do you feel that respect necessarily encompasses additional days off, with no coverage, and people being happy about how that lack of coverage impacts them? Or is there a separate lack of respect that you are referencing?

Lack of respect is what is being shown towards parents.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What do you mean, treated respectfully? Are you viewing people's distress over a last minute decision to provide additional days off, with no childcare provisions or assistance, as disrespect to you? If so, why? Do you feel that respect necessarily encompasses additional days off, with no coverage, and people being happy about how that lack of coverage impacts them? Or is there a separate lack of respect that you are referencing?


Your response is a good example. Your "distress" about the two days is nothing over which I have any control and I don't understand why you are attacking me about it. By "treated respectfully" I mean that tone and word choice matter. When you speak with, Zoom with, text with or email your child's teacher, tone and word choice matter.

Yes, asking questions is very rude, I can see how you feel highly offended. Hopefully none of your students are ever so audacious.

What you call “asking questions” is actually whining and throwing an adult temper tantrum about a decision that has been made and will not change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our family supports it. Three weeks seems to be ample notice. After all, LCPS got only a week notice when their system did the same thing.

LCPS is hardly a shining example to follow.

When will the two days of lost academic instruction be made up?

They won’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers wouldn't be so burnt out if you parents had actually tried to teach your kids last year. Instead, you bished, moaned, and complained while dragging your kids on all kinds of errands and vacations. Now that they are in school and testing a year or more behind what do we get? More whining and grumbling that teachers need a break.

My best friend left teaching this year after 13 years and is now making $2,000 more per year doing a low stress office admin job.

Exactly.

Parents were supposed to be doing the teaching? We were repeatedly told teachers were working during virtual instruction. Now it seems we’re being told otherwise. It was not possible for me to retain my job and simultaneously teach my three kids while they were home for online school (and no we weren’t on any fancy vacations as we’ve been strictly following CDC guidance since this all started).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those suggesting it’s a sub issue, the communication from ACPS had no indication of that. It’s basically extra time off to give teachers a break. I have mixed feelings about it. I know teachers deserve a break, but this really is hard on families and kids who need the routines that are finally been reestablished.

And they need a break because there are no subs and they are often spending planning time covering for others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those suggesting it’s a sub issue, the communication from ACPS had no indication of that. It’s basically extra time off to give teachers a break. I have mixed feelings about it. I know teachers deserve a break, but this really is hard on families and kids who need the routines that are finally been reestablished.

And they need a break because there are no subs and they are often spending planning time covering for others.

They didn't give an indication because they want to be patted on the back for seeming like they care about teachers. But there are a lot of teachers who are taking that vacation that week and the coverage just isn't there. My FIL is taking the week to travel home. He's not the only one in his school taking the time off. I think it just reached a crisis point district wide and ACPS just went screw it here's the week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those suggesting it’s a sub issue, the communication from ACPS had no indication of that. It’s basically extra time off to give teachers a break. I have mixed feelings about it. I know teachers deserve a break, but this really is hard on families and kids who need the routines that are finally been reestablished.

School systems are not going to admit the problem is due to an issue they've repeatedly ignored for years and are too cheap to fix properly. Much better to spend that money at the top. They know exactly what they're doing. They would much rather have the anger directed at the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those suggesting it’s a sub issue, the communication from ACPS had no indication of that. It’s basically extra time off to give teachers a break. I have mixed feelings about it. I know teachers deserve a break, but this really is hard on families and kids who need the routines that are finally been reestablished.

School systems are not going to admit the problem is due to an issue they've repeatedly ignored for years and are too cheap to fix properly. Much better to spend that money at the top. They know exactly what they're doing. They would much rather have the anger directed at the teachers.

Exactly. They aren’t going to come out and say “we’re woefully understaffed and incompetent”

[Anonymous]

LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

[Anonymous]

Remember this when you vote! Vote for school choice. Take your education dollars elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL someone had the thread joking about Virginia hospitals being shut down Thanksgiving week deleted. Guess they didn’t like that point being made!

Healthcare workers have been more stressed than anyone these past 2 years. They deserve that week off. Who cares if that means they have to close the hospitals for a few days 😉

Agreed. Being a healthcare worker is just a job — nothing more, nothing less. I deserve time off any time I want it. Who cares if my hospital is understaffed? Saving lives isn’t a calling. It’s just a job.

[Anonymous]

Thank your friends that went private. They screwed you. The districts get paid by the pupil from the state, and every one lost to private means less money. Bigger class sizes. Having to do more with less.

[Anonymous]

Well ACPS and many others were closed for a year. No one seemed to care. Still voted Democrat too. The only people really being hurt are poor and brown, and evidently it doesn’t matter.