APS VPL is a dumpster fire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

Instead of paying teachers extra (like with summer school), they instead stick it in 6 figure middle management positions for the King's Court of cabinet positions. Empire building at kids' educational expense. More $1 million bus stops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

Please make your voice heard. If other teachers agree and feel the same, please have them speak up too. At SB meetings, in letters to the editor of local publications. The hot mess of the past 1.5 years of APS has 100% been due to the nonsensical decisions of the administration. Our kids need SO MUCH support to make up for the learning loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

Please make your voice heard. If other teachers agree and feel the same, please have them speak up too. At SB meetings, in letters to the editor of local publications. The hot mess of the past 1.5 years of APS has 100% been due to the nonsensical decisions of the administration. Our kids need SO MUCH support to make up for the learning loss.

If I speak up, that’s going to backfire on me. But I’m soooo sick of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Arlington parents would stop insisting that any new HS include a pool and all the trimmings, maybe you could have modified Kenmore with the money that's being wasted on this program.

Wait, they should cut back on current schools to benefit a virtual school program? Thats ludicrous when there are other options out there. No one moves to Arlington for a virtual school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

Instead of paying teachers extra (like with summer school), they instead stick it in 6 figure middle management positions for the King's Court of cabinet positions. Empire building at kids' educational expense. More $1 million bus stops.

It’s true. Every teacher in APS is pretty much on their own while they walk our hallways wearing their high heels for photo ops. I’m drowning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If Arlington parents would stop insisting that any new HS include a pool and all the trimmings, maybe you could have modified Kenmore with the money that's being wasted on this program.

So the high school for predominantly low income and minority catchment will have its pool and trimmings cut? Yeah lawsuit day 1. Make it an option school and have lackluster enrollment like Tech. They need to pay to play to fix this. They are still counting on virtual school to address overcrowding don’t you doubt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

So what? I have zero sympathy on this.
And if parents want to continue with it, drop the APS program and sign up for Virtual Virginia or some other online provider

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

So what? I have zero sympathy on this.
And if parents want to continue with it, drop the APS program and sign up for Virtual Virginia or some other online provider

I'm very opposed to the virtual program for all but those with certified medical reasons like what Fairfax did. However, I have a lot of sympathy for these virtual parents and especially the kids because they were expecting APS to provide them with virtual school. If APS couldn't staff it, that should have been communicated clearly in advance so they could make alternative plans. It's probably very late in the game to do Virtual Virginia.

A number of people on Arlington County Matters were discussing for weeks the large number of open virtual teaching positions. These problems were easy to foresee for those few people actually paying attention to local political issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

So what? I have zero sympathy on this.
And if parents want to continue with it, drop the APS program and sign up for Virtual Virginia or some other online provider

I'm very opposed to the virtual program for all but those with certified medical reasons like what Fairfax did. However, I have a lot of sympathy for these virtual parents and especially the kids because they were expecting APS to provide them with virtual school. If APS couldn't staff it, that should have been communicated clearly in advance so they could make alternative plans. It's probably very late in the game to do Virtual Virginia.

A number of people on Arlington County Matters were discussing for weeks the large number of open virtual teaching positions. These problems were easy to foresee for those few people actually paying attention to local political issues.

APE Facebook page is honestly the best place to go for these type of discussions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

+1000

So true! And they just make work for schools. We teachers get no support yet seems like every week they add more chiefs!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

+1000

So true! And they just make work for schools. We teachers get no support yet seems like every week they add more chiefs!

There's quite a few of new ones this school years. The silver lining is that they took a number of Loft's duties.

After this virtual learning dumpster fire, Loft should go. Promote Kim Graves to that role ASAP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

+1000

So true! And they just make work for schools. We teachers get no support yet seems like every week they add more chiefs!

There's quite a few of new ones this school years. The silver lining is that they took a number of Loft's duties.

After this virtual learning dumpster fire, Loft should go. Promote Kim Graves to that role ASAP!

Kim Graves is fantastic and would do a phenomenal job, but it wouldn’t be a promotion. (It would be a lateral move)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

So what? I have zero sympathy on this.
And if parents want to continue with it, drop the APS program and sign up for Virtual Virginia or some other online provider

I'm very opposed to the virtual program for all but those with certified medical reasons like what Fairfax did. However, I have a lot of sympathy for these virtual parents and especially the kids because they were expecting APS to provide them with virtual school. If APS couldn't staff it, that should have been communicated clearly in advance so they could make alternative plans. It's probably very late in the game to do Virtual Virginia.

A number of people on Arlington County Matters were discussing for weeks the large number of open virtual teaching positions. These problems were easy to foresee for those few people actually paying attention to local political issues.

Nope. They got exactly what they deserved. I think APS should cancel the whole thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

Instead of paying teachers extra (like with summer school), they instead stick it in 6 figure middle management positions for the King's Court of cabinet positions. Empire building at kids' educational expense. More $1 million bus stops.

It’s true. Every teacher in APS is pretty much on their own while they walk our hallways wearing their high heels for photo ops. I’m drowning.

Why are you drowning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's not forget how much of the ARP funds ($11M or 58%) they sunk into that program at the expense of so many other things for the 97% of other students.

https://twitter.com/spirobc/status/1428942425830088707

Good.