WHAT?! APS now closed 1/6??

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Anonymous wrote:Just want to say my kids' $30K+ per year private school (which I only put them in because I had 0 trust in APS this year) is open today. They're on their way to school now. They were open yesterday too.

And the admins are all subbing too.

I wonder how the cost of these past two days of admins babysitting your kids compares with the cost of back up childcare. I'd doubt they're getting a quality education with staff stretched, and I doubt the public school kids are suffering massive learning loss these past few days. Its the daily scramble and uncertainty that is breaking parents who have already been broken many times the past two years.

On second thought I just did the math. $30K/180 school days = $167 per day. Divide that by 7 hours of school and you're paying $24 and hour. That seems like a steal for back up childcare. Too bad school teachers aren't paid enough to afford that. We might not need as many subs to cover when they have to take care of their own kids when they're sick or a close contact.

Most private schools have fewer days (start later end earlier) but even at 170 it’s probably still a good deal

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I don’t think paying teachers more is going to help magically create enough back up care for an entire school system. But it would love to see them paid more.

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Anonymous wrote:Just want to say my kids' $30K+ per year private school (which I only put them in because I had 0 trust in APS this year) is open today. They're on their way to school now. They were open yesterday too.

And the admins are all subbing too.

Same at my kid’s 5k a year private school.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think paying teachers more is going to help magically create enough back up care for an entire school system. But it would love to see them paid more.

I grew up in Arlington and when I was growing up, many teachers lived in the neighborhood. Many of my classmates had parents who worked for APS. I can vividly picture seeing some of my teachers walking to school on a snow day.

Teacher salaries have not kept up with the giant increase in housing costs in Arlington. A family of two teachers could never afford to buy here now.

As a teacher, I could make the same (actually, got an offer for $3k more) in Loundon County AND get the same size house for $300k less! What incentive do I have to commute to Arlington? Especially if my kids are in LCPS?

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Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

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Anonymous wrote:Gee golly. I wonder how schools in other parts of the good old U.S.A. and rest of the world that have school plus COVID are managing to open. A REAL MYSTERY.

FFS, APS.

How exactly should they have opened?

What specifically would you have done differently?

How are falls church city and DCPS opening?

FCC provides childcare for teachers' children - that's how they were able to open last year.

And teachers are allowed to bring their kids to school in their classrooms. Every single staff member is on tap to be a sub as well. I don't always love what Peter Noonan does, and staff isn't super happy with him either, but he does get kids back in school more often than our neighbors...which is part of why we all paid more $$$ for the same small house we could have got in APS or FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Yes, grade prep

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Popular skiing weekend. I’m guessing lots of families will call out. Probably the same ones complaining about today.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Yes, grade prep

When are teachers supposed to do their grades then?

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Yes, grade prep

When are teachers supposed to do their grades then?

Why does he have to make concessions to these people? That was a planned work day.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Yes, grade prep

When are teachers supposed to do their grades then?

Why does he have to make concessions to these people? That was a planned work day.

It’s not like we used all of our snow days yet!?

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Yes, grade prep

When are teachers supposed to do their grades then?

Why does he have to make concessions to these people? That was a planned work day.

It’s not like we used all of our snow days yet!?

Don't we only have 5? In which case they will all be used as of tomorrow...

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Yes, grade prep

When are teachers supposed to do their grades then?

Why does he have to make concessions to these people? That was a planned work day.

It’s not like we used all of our snow days yet!?

Right. I’m so sick of these bullies getting their way. These people are never going to be happy, no matter what he does.

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like APS will now go to school on Jan 31st (from the superintendent's announcements in the board presentation tonight)

Was that originally set as a teacher workday or something?

Yes, grade prep

When are teachers supposed to do their grades then?

Why does he have to make concessions to these people? That was a planned work day.

It’s not like we used all of our snow days yet!?

Don't we only have 5? In which case they will all be used as of tomorrow...

Correct, so why would we be making up some thing we hadn’t used yet? Also, the snow plan says we go to virtual on day six so there will never be any additional missed snow days.