APS hurts children again by canceling Extracurriculars until January 14th

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS clearly learned nothing from this last election.

Why would anyone base serious decisions on nut-job parents throwing tantrums?

Grow TF up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS clearly learned nothing from this last election.

Why would anyone base serious decisions on nut-job parents throwing tantrums?

Grow TF up.

Because they are politicians.

[Anonymous]

The first post mentions a New Year’s Eve party for seniors. That’s the event I posted, genius, and that’s virtual.

[Anonymous]

I love threads like this because the OP, APE types and frankly anyone and everyone who proved to be soft as hell morons (because school pivoted because there were no vaccines) will FOREVER use that one school year as an excuse for what goes wrong in their miserable little lives.

Kid gets dumped in HS? "The lack of socialization during 2020 is the cause!"

Kid has to take their learners permit test more than once to pass? "When my kid was in their first year of middle school they were online and it was hard!"

Kid doesn't pass AP Chemistry their senior year? "My kid was only a first grader when they said 'No Zoom, Mama.'"

These people have a built in excuse for the rest of their lives how Duran and the SB ruined them or some shit nonsense like that.

The problem is they'll vote for literal fascists as their "revenge."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love threads like this because the OP, APE types and frankly anyone and everyone who proved to be soft as hell morons (because school pivoted because there were no vaccines) will FOREVER use that one school year as an excuse for what goes wrong in their miserable little lives.

Kid gets dumped in HS? "The lack of socialization during 2020 is the cause!"

Kid has to take their learners permit test more than once to pass? "When my kid was in their first year of middle school they were online and it was hard!"

Kid doesn't pass AP Chemistry their senior year? "My kid was only a first grader when they said 'No Zoom, Mama.'"

These people have a built in excuse for the rest of their lives how Duran and the SB ruined them or some shit nonsense like that.

The problem is they'll vote for literal fascists as their "revenge."

Please keep in mind you are in the small minority in Arlington. You can find an echo chamber for your extreme views among a few people on AEM (pretty much everyone on AEM that commented us against shutting down extracurriculars), the few teachers that are in the AEA and the 10 people that are in Smart Restart (who’s pushing up to 50% of kids are going to be permanently disabled with Long COVID, as if 100s of millions of kids haven’t already gotten COVID over 2 years).

I understand why you’re so bitter though. If I’d been so consistently wrong in front of my whole community for the past 2 years and caused such damage to our children, I’d be defensive too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first post mentions a New Year’s Eve party for seniors. That’s the event I posted, genius, and that’s virtual.

You are so strange. The poster mentioned a 55 and over Monday sing along. You responded with a virtual NYe party. Someone said that’s not the event you said post the event, I did, then you say you want to talk about nye. I don’t care about the nye party. The point is aps cancelled extracurriculars for low risk kids. Parks and rec cancelled basketball for low risk kids, but is moving forward with sing a longs for high risk seniors. Who is making these decisions????

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS clearly learned nothing from this last election.

Why would anyone base serious decisions on nut-job parents throwing tantrums?

Grow TF up.

Because they are politicians.

No, they are adults and do the best thing for our kids and community. They won’t - and should not - cater to a-hole parents throwing tantrums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first post mentions a New Year’s Eve party for seniors. That’s the event I posted, genius, and that’s virtual.

You are so strange. The poster mentioned a 55 and over Monday sing along. You responded with a virtual NYe party. Someone said that’s not the event you said post the event, I did, then you say you want to talk about nye. I don’t care about the nye party. The point is aps cancelled extracurriculars for low risk kids. Parks and rec cancelled basketball for low risk kids, but is moving forward with sing a longs for high risk seniors. Who is making these decisions????

Do we really think the singalong is still going to happen?

Probably the scheduling person is still out on vacation. It will be cancelled on Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love threads like this because the OP, APE types and frankly anyone and everyone who proved to be soft as hell morons (because school pivoted because there were no vaccines) will FOREVER use that one school year as an excuse for what goes wrong in their miserable little lives.

Kid gets dumped in HS? "The lack of socialization during 2020 is the cause!"

Kid has to take their learners permit test more than once to pass? "When my kid was in their first year of middle school they were online and it was hard!"

Kid doesn't pass AP Chemistry their senior year? "My kid was only a first grader when they said 'No Zoom, Mama.'"

These people have a built in excuse for the rest of their lives how Duran and the SB ruined them or some shit nonsense like that.

The problem is they'll vote for literal fascists as their "revenge."

Yes, that is the problem. APS and their ACDC overlords might want to think long and hard about that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS clearly learned nothing from this last election.

Why would anyone base serious decisions on nut-job parents throwing tantrums?

Grow TF up.

Because they are politicians.

No, they are adults and do the best thing for our kids and community. They won’t - and should not - cater to a-hole parents throwing tantrums.

Political appointees from a school board hand picked by the ACDC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love threads like this because the OP, APE types and frankly anyone and everyone who proved to be soft as hell morons (because school pivoted because there were no vaccines) will FOREVER use that one school year as an excuse for what goes wrong in their miserable little lives.

Kid gets dumped in HS? "The lack of socialization during 2020 is the cause!"

Kid has to take their learners permit test more than once to pass? "When my kid was in their first year of middle school they were online and it was hard!"

Kid doesn't pass AP Chemistry their senior year? "My kid was only a first grader when they said 'No Zoom, Mama.'"

These people have a built in excuse for the rest of their lives how Duran and the SB ruined them or some shit nonsense like that.

The problem is they'll vote for literal fascists as their "revenge."

Please keep in mind you are in the small minority in Arlington. You can find an echo chamber for your extreme views among a few people on AEM (pretty much everyone on AEM that commented us against shutting down extracurriculars), the few teachers that are in the AEA and the 10 people that are in Smart Restart (who’s pushing up to 50% of kids are going to be permanently disabled with Long COVID, as if 100s of millions of kids haven’t already gotten COVID over 2 years).

I understand why you’re so bitter though. If I’d been so consistently wrong in front of my whole community for the past 2 years and caused such damage to our children, I’d be defensive too.

No bitterness. My kids will be just fine because they learned about patience and overcoming things b/c the world literally changed overnight.

Don't project.

[Anonymous]

Travel teams are delaying training as well. Messages just started to go out.... It's not just APS.

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Anonymous wrote:AP&R is literally hosting an indoor NYE party for seniors but postponing kid sports. Anyone else writing to the county? The double standard is maddening.

Yup. Your kid can’t do newspaper club, but according to the AP&R website, your 55 year old neighbor can roll into the Madison Center on Monday at 1:30 for a folk music sing-along. We’re lucky Gen Z doesn’t rise up and murder us all in our sleep.

Maybe they’re trying to kill off the seniors.

As multiple people in this thread have already mentioned, IT IS A VIRTUAL PARTY. https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Departments/Parks-Recreation/Parks-Events/2021-2022/55Plus/New-Years-Eve-Celebration" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Departments/Parks-Recreation/Parks-Events/2021-2022/55Plus/New-Years-Eve-Celebration

That’s a different event, genius.

Please post the one you’re referring to then.

https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Departments/Parks-Recreation/Parks-Events/2021-2022/55Plus/Folk-Music-Sing-Along-1

THE FIRST POST HERE IS BERATING PARKS AND REC FOR HOSTING A NYE PARTY FOR SENIORS — BUT THAT NYE PARTY IS PERFECTLY SAFE BECAUSE IT’S VIRTUAL! GET IT?

I don’t care about your arts and crafts event on Monday afternoon. That’s 3 days away and might get cancelled by then anyway. Three pages ago multiple people were aghast at the idea of some NYE party (and I think some of them thought the seniors involved were seniors in high school, ha.). THAT horrifying terrible event is in fact virtual, and no one will get sick as a result.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AP&R is literally hosting an indoor NYE party for seniors but postponing kid sports. Anyone else writing to the county? The double standard is maddening.

Are you effing kidding me?

Example of horrified reaction to NYE party 🎉 which is virtual so in fact NBD etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many sports families are outraged. Next door, FCPS is proudly announcing their sports will continue as usual.

COVID will be here forever. Our athletes are vaccinated too and tested often. This is just a move to appease the Zero COVID screamers (Smart Restart has already Tweeted their approval of harming kids by canceling extracurriculars).

We have a mental health crisis going on with kids right now but APS doesn’t care.

A little histrionic. Are your children “hurt” when events are canceled due to snow days? Or during vacations?

It’s 11 days. Big deal.