APS school board meeting, anything new?

[Anonymous]

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It's practically May. It's time to move on for this school year. Use your energy for pusing for next year.

My kid has had 9 days of in person school since March 2020. Right now her classroom sits empty three days a week. If she switched to 4 days a week she could have 34 days of in person school before the end of the year. That would be meaningful for my kid.

Exactly. What is with all these people writing off the rest of this year? There are TWO MONTHS left of school this year. We need to do better. All you people shrugging your shoulders just suck.

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So put pressure on the CDC to review the data and see if they can reduce the distancing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It's practically May. It's time to move on for this school year. Use your energy for pusing for next year.

My kid has had 9 days of in person school since March 2020. Right now her classroom sits empty three days a week. If she switched to 4 days a week she could have 34 days of in person school before the end of the year. That would be meaningful for my kid.

Exactly. What is with all these people writing off the rest of this year? There are TWO MONTHS left of school this year. We need to do better. All you people shrugging your shoulders just suck.

1000%

So put pressure on the CDC to review the data and see if they can reduce the distancing.

CDC should review its recommendations because APS can't make them work, despite the fact that basically all of the surrounding jurisdictions can? The problem is clearly not the CDC here. It's APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It's practically May. It's time to move on for this school year. Use your energy for pusing for next year.

My kid has had 9 days of in person school since March 2020. Right now her classroom sits empty three days a week. If she switched to 4 days a week she could have 34 days of in person school before the end of the year. That would be meaningful for my kid.

Exactly. What is with all these people writing off the rest of this year? There are TWO MONTHS left of school this year. We need to do better. All you people shrugging your shoulders just suck.

1000%

So put pressure on the CDC to review the data and see if they can reduce the distancing.

CDC should review its recommendations because APS can't make them work, despite the fact that basically all of the surrounding jurisdictions can? The problem is clearly not the CDC here. It's APS.

It’s reasonable for APS to follow CDC guidelines.

If you don’t like the guidelines...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It's practically May. It's time to move on for this school year. Use your energy for pusing for next year.

My kid has had 9 days of in person school since March 2020. Right now her classroom sits empty three days a week. If she switched to 4 days a week she could have 34 days of in person school before the end of the year. That would be meaningful for my kid.

Exactly. What is with all these people writing off the rest of this year? There are TWO MONTHS left of school this year. We need to do better. All you people shrugging your shoulders just suck.

1000%

So put pressure on the CDC to review the data and see if they can reduce the distancing.

CDC should review its recommendations because APS can't make them work, despite the fact that basically all of the surrounding jurisdictions can? The problem is clearly not the CDC here. It's APS.

It’s reasonable for APS to follow CDC guidelines.

If you don’t like the guidelines...

My understanding is that significantly more students can be accommodated while still following 3 ft distancing. Also, there’s no reason we can’t do one kid in each seat on the bus with the windows cracked open.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:+100 The flyover country that this board talks down on so much has kids gaining an education while those of us on the coast have our kids stuck at home watching an iPad for 10 hrs a day. But they're learning right? Social interaction from carpooling, bus riding, playground playing, etc is such an important factor at these ages but this area is keeping all kids locked down from it whil 90% of the country has thrived for a year. I thought we were supposed to "trust science". Schools have been opened without issue.

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Anonymous wrote:They are going to go continue issuing iPads to preK thru 2nd graders due to “uncertainty” about the coming year. Not a great sign.

That's simply insane! Major urban school districts like Dallas have been back in person 5 days a week since October. No mass school closings or wave of sickness/death either. Is APS just waiting on Covid to disappear completely from the face of the earth?!

Fake news! They will open back up fully in the fall. Don’t get your panties in a bunch over absolutely nothing.

P.S. An urban district in redneck Texas ain’t my measuring stick.

DP - I have a niece in a Dallas suburb and it's not "redneck Texas" - it has one of the top-rated school districts in the country. And as the PP stated, no mass closings or sickness/death. Instead, students are thriving and engaged in modified activities including band, dance team, etc.

Flyover schools have more space and less crowded schools. That’s all it is. They aren’t even taking that big a risk bc everything is bigger in Texas.

APS was a crowded snow show before pandemic, with old poorly ventilated schools.

Well that's simply ...ridiculous. Probably not a good idea to take a tourist slogan and try to extrapolate actual public policy from it. It's akin to saying people are having more sex in Virginia, because well it "is for lovers." There's crowded schools in Houston. There are schools with space crunch in Dallas and Austin. You're likely not a big reader, but at least Google some info first...

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There are older, poorly ventilated schools across the country. Some districts have FAR more of those than APS, believe me. I get not taking an unnecessary risks, but at this point - some risk is necessary. We have not seen huge numbers of kids & teachers get sick. Most in-person schools have not been forced to shut down again. APS should be listening to the CDC, but needs to at least factor in what's happening at hundreds, if not thousands, of schools across the country that have successfully brought kids back 5 days a week.

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I agree it is necessary now. My kid has learned so much in the few weeks he has been in class 2 days a week. Image 4 from now to the end of the year! I'm from redneck South Carolina and they are 5 days since after winter break imagine that.....I lived in progressive New England for 10 years and Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts states I lived in all open at least 4 days imagine that....Went to graduate school in middle of the road South Florida and they are back 5 days imagine that....Guess I picked the wrong place to raise my kid. My child has an IEP, and was not offered 4 days in person or any days until his non-IEP Kindergarten class mates came back in. So now we will likely be offered in person Summer school, no thank you...my child deserves to run and play all summer like his typically developing peers in camp. Why should he be punished when he showed every day on his iPad like his peers with a privately paid instructional aide so his mom and dad could work to pay for his private therapies, and keep insurance so he can see his specialists....I'm so over APS,and yes I also know people in Fairfax County in similar schools to north APS schools going back 4 days starting April 27th....and they couldn't figure it out@APS......so done

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree it is necessary now. My kid has learned so much in the few weeks he has been in class 2 days a week. Image 4 from now to the end of the year! I'm from redneck South Carolina and they are 5 days since after winter break imagine that.....I lived in progressive New England for 10 years and Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts states I lived in all open at least 4 days imagine that....Went to graduate school in middle of the road South Florida and they are back 5 days imagine that....Guess I picked the wrong place to raise my kid. My child has an IEP, and was not offered 4 days in person or any days until his non-IEP Kindergarten class mates came back in. So now we will likely be offered in person Summer school, no thank you...my child deserves to run and play all summer like his typically developing peers in camp. Why should he be punished when he showed every day on his iPad like his peers with a privately paid instructional aide so his mom and dad could work to pay for his private therapies, and keep insurance so he can see his specialists....I'm so over APS,and yes I also know people in Fairfax County in similar schools to north APS schools going back 4 days starting April 27th....and they couldn't figure it out@APS......so done

Remember to vote in the caucus. I feel the same.

[Anonymous]

APS opened and almost right away had outbreaks at WL and YHS. But yet people want to go down to less distancing and cram more kids in?

Shouldn't we figure out first why we had these outbreaks and deal with that?

[Anonymous]

APS will go down in history as one of the last districts in the country to get kids back more than 2 days/week.. without a doubt.

not sure why Duran isn't taking this time to figure out logistics for the fall. We are in for a rude awakening come August.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS opened and almost right away had outbreaks at WL and YHS. But yet people want to go down to less distancing and cram more kids in?

Shouldn't we figure out first why we had these outbreaks and deal with that?

we know how adult bodies work. We're talking about ES mostly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS opened and almost right away had outbreaks at WL and YHS. But yet people want to go down to less distancing and cram more kids in?

Shouldn't we figure out first why we had these outbreaks and deal with that?

If you want schools to stay closed whenever 2 people in the school get COVID, our kids will fail miserably in life because they will not receive a sufficient and adequate education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS will go down in history as one of the last districts in the country to get kids back more than 2 days/week.. without a doubt.

not sure why Duran isn't taking this time to figure out logistics for the fall. We are in for a rude awakening come August.

He is following CDC guidelines so...complain to the CDC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS will go down in history as one of the last districts in the country to get kids back more than 2 days/week.. without a doubt.

not sure why Duran isn't taking this time to figure out logistics for the fall. We are in for a rude awakening come August.

He is following CDC guidelines so...complain to the CDC.

Again, one of the last schools in the entire country to not figure out how to get kids back more than 2 days/week.. does CDC guidelines only apply to APS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS opened and almost right away had outbreaks at WL and YHS. But yet people want to go down to less distancing and cram more kids in?

Shouldn't we figure out first why we had these outbreaks and deal with that?

If you want schools to stay closed whenever 2 people in the school get COVID, our kids will fail miserably in life because they will not receive a sufficient and adequate education.

weird to go right to the "stay closed" straw man. Schools are open, but the open uppers still accuse anyone who isn't with their agenda of "stay closed"

the point is that we should not open up more or cut mitigation before we figure out what drove those outbreaks and then fix it