APS Parent - incredibly disappointed.

[Anonymous]

Third. Fwiw, my two other kids (1st and 5th) have had small groups since September.
My third grader has had one writing assignment since the beginning of school— I can compare with his older sister so I know that isn’t normal— she had five graded writing pieces by this time in the year. He gets writing prompts but they are through seesaw, and all the kids just write 1-2 sentences. I can see other kids responses, I know it’s not just my kid slacking off. I compare with my friends at other schools, and it’s just appalling. There shouldn’t be such a discrepancy.

Have you contacted the teacher about your concerns? If no response, have you then gone to the principal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone go above and beyond when treated so poorly? What a nasty thread we have here. Public education is in such a state where you get what you get even if you pitch a fit. If you want something different best be prepared to pay for private or a tutor.

Public school teacher just DO NOT WANT TO WORK. We went private. The difference is astounding. Good luck educating your kids. We’ll be ok.

I feel really bad for parents who have apparently had bad public school teachers. I have a child in 3rd and one in 6th (APS) and between them they have had one bad teacher. A couple were absolute godsends and changed my kids’ lives for the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone go above and beyond when treated so poorly? What a nasty thread we have here. Public education is in such a state where you get what you get even if you pitch a fit. If you want something different best be prepared to pay for private or a tutor.

Public school teacher just DO NOT WANT TO WORK. We went private. The difference is astounding. Good luck educating your kids. We’ll be ok.

I feel really bad for parents who have apparently had bad public school teachers. I have a child in 3rd and one in 6th (APS) and between them they have had one bad teacher. A couple were absolute godsends and changed my kids’ lives for the better.

They didn’t all have bad teachers. They’re drama queens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone go above and beyond when treated so poorly? What a nasty thread we have here. Public education is in such a state where you get what you get even if you pitch a fit. If you want something different best be prepared to pay for private or a tutor.

Public school teacher just DO NOT WANT TO WORK. We went private. The difference is astounding. Good luck educating your kids. We’ll be ok.

I feel really bad for parents who have apparently had bad public school teachers. I have a child in 3rd and one in 6th (APS) and between them they have had one bad teacher. A couple were absolute godsends and changed my kids’ lives for the better.

(And beyond that we get to keep our money)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone go above and beyond when treated so poorly? What a nasty thread we have here. Public education is in such a state where you get what you get even if you pitch a fit. If you want something different best be prepared to pay for private or a tutor.

Public school teacher just DO NOT WANT TO WORK. We went private. The difference is astounding. Good luck educating your kids. We’ll be ok.

I feel really bad for parents who have apparently had bad public school teachers. I have a child in 3rd and one in 6th (APS) and between them they have had one bad teacher. A couple were absolute godsends and changed my kids’ lives for the better.

They didn’t all have bad teachers. They’re drama queens.

Ha true, I give anonymous internet commenters too much credit.

[Anonymous]

I’m making 65,000 a year in APS and working at least 50 hours per week. That averages out to $32.50/hr. PRETAX. Stop expecting teachers to be martyrs for your children while we are barely making ends meet. If my spouse didn’t make a very good living I couldn’t afford to do this job and I contemplate quitting everyday because of parents like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m making 65,000 a year in APS and working at least 50 hours per week. That averages out to $32.50/hr. PRETAX. Stop expecting teachers to be martyrs for your children while we are barely making ends meet. If my spouse didn’t make a very good living I couldn’t afford to do this job and I contemplate quitting everyday because of parents like you.

50 hours/week? Out of curiosity, what grade are you teaching?

[Anonymous]

5th.

[Anonymous]

5th PP. after hours twice a week I have meetings. Then I use a daily slideshow to go through the day and that takes me about 1 hour (sometimes more) to create and update each day, plus create, upload, and test that it works on iPad for each assignment. Grade and provide feedback for submitted assignments. Answer parent emails. Look ahead to future assignments and projects and compline resources. Start compiling future things for the next packet pickup. Make lists of who hasn’t turned in something so I can follow up with student the next day to finish. See who didn’t do their required lexia or dreambox targets. There’s always more to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5th PP. after hours twice a week I have meetings. Then I use a daily slideshow to go through the day and that takes me about 1 hour (sometimes more) to create and update each day, plus create, upload, and test that it works on iPad for each assignment. Grade and provide feedback for submitted assignments. Answer parent emails. Look ahead to future assignments and projects and compline resources. Start compiling future things for the next packet pickup. Make lists of who hasn’t turned in something so I can follow up with student the next day to finish. See who didn’t do their required lexia or dreambox targets. There’s always more to do.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I was under the impression this is what asynchronous Mondays are for?

[Anonymous]

Mondays I have a language arts planning meeting from 9-11, meet with a small group 11-11:30, lunch, whole grade planning 12-2, and then I have 2 hours to work and prepare.

[Anonymous]

Planning means looking at the whole week, talking about how we want to teach and what types of things we will do and looking at what we did last year and how we can move that to digital format, then we split up what each of us will do for that, and we might have 30 minutes to start working on that on our own. Everything takes a long time to create. APS does not give us things already created.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5th PP. after hours twice a week I have meetings. Then I use a daily slideshow to go through the day and that takes me about 1 hour (sometimes more) to create and update each day, plus create, upload, and test that it works on iPad for each assignment. Grade and provide feedback for submitted assignments. Answer parent emails. Look ahead to future assignments and projects and compline resources. Start compiling future things for the next packet pickup. Make lists of who hasn’t turned in something so I can follow up with student the next day to finish. See who didn’t do their required lexia or dreambox targets. There’s always more to do.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I was under the impression this is what asynchronous Mondays are for?

NP. I have a minimum of 3 hours of meetings on Mondays plus testing and/or interventions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You make no sense. Community spread is sky high right now. If school spread = community spread, then why would We send our teachers and students to school. I read the article in the post trying to convince us to open up schools because they are not super spreaders. Ok. They are not super spreaders. They spread at the same rate as the community. But the community is out of control. Why would we open school buildings??

Community spread was never “sky high” in Arlington Va or even in NOVA
Almost all the “spread” in Fairfax count the largest county in the area was sadly in care homes.

And today community spread is not sky high. It’s really low actually.

I’m sorry did these senior citizens get it when they went to the gym or had drinks after? Community spread brings it in the health and housing issues of these centers makes it spread like wildfire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5th PP. after hours twice a week I have meetings. Then I use a daily slideshow to go through the day and that takes me about 1 hour (sometimes more) to create and update each day, plus create, upload, and test that it works on iPad for each assignment. Grade and provide feedback for submitted assignments. Answer parent emails. Look ahead to future assignments and projects and compline resources. Start compiling future things for the next packet pickup. Make lists of who hasn’t turned in something so I can follow up with student the next day to finish. See who didn’t do their required lexia or dreambox targets. There’s always more to do.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I was under the impression this is what asynchronous Mondays are for?

They fill half of Monday with mandatory meetings. The other half isn’t enough time to get it all done from scratch every week.