[APS] Who is funding newly-incorporated APE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I finally watched the board meeting and one thing that APE was lobbying for was....APS reaching out to parents who left APS.

As if that would be a good use of APS time and resources right now.

What a joke. Can't take them seriously at all.

One of APE's school board comments was on APS' record-setting unenrollment and getting families to re-enroll. You might not care as you probably see it as an ideological purge of those "open uppers" (as some have stated on Facebook), but those who want a strong public school system for this community do care.

Except that was not true at all. There are more students enrolled in APS this year than last year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some people with special needs kids left APS because last year wasn't just a lost year, it was a falling way MORE behind year. Not only apes. Some kittens left too. mewo

special needs families leave APS every year because APS has been screwing them over long before Covid and will continue long after. Not a Covid issue but nice try using them for your agenda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some people with special needs kids left APS because last year wasn't just a lost year, it was a falling way MORE behind year. Not only apes. Some kittens left too. mewo

special needs families leave APS every year because APS has been screwing them over long before Covid and will continue long after. Not a Covid issue but nice try using them for your agenda.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I finally watched the board meeting and one thing that APE was lobbying for was....APS reaching out to parents who left APS.

As if that would be a good use of APS time and resources right now.

What a joke. Can't take them seriously at all.

One of APE's school board comments was on APS' record-setting unenrollment and getting families to re-enroll. You might not care as you probably see it as an ideological purge of those "open uppers" (as some have stated on Facebook), but those who want a strong public school system for this community do care.

Except that was not true at all. There are more students enrolled in APS this year than last year!

Isn't the relevant comparison the 2019-2020 school year? I would sure hope they have more this year than last - schools were closed last year and lot of kids (especially lower ES) left to homeschool/private, preschools started K programs, etc. Having more kids this year than last is a very, very, low bar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I finally watched the board meeting and one thing that APE was lobbying for was....APS reaching out to parents who left APS.

As if that would be a good use of APS time and resources right now.

What a joke. Can't take them seriously at all.

One of APE's school board comments was on APS' record-setting unenrollment and getting families to re-enroll. You might not care as you probably see it as an ideological purge of those "open uppers" (as some have stated on Facebook), but those who want a strong public school system for this community do care.

Except that was not true at all. There are more students enrolled in APS this year than last year!

Isn't the relevant comparison the 2019-2020 school year? I would sure hope they have more this year than last - schools were closed last year and lot of kids (especially lower ES) left to homeschool/private, preschools started K programs, etc. Having more kids this year than last is a very, very, low bar.

Schools were not "closed" last year.

[Anonymous]

Agree that the relevant comparison is September 2019 -> September 2021. But I wouldn't necessarily expect any more now. It almost certainly lower in September 2021 than than in September 2020. People are still fleeing to private because APS is a dumpster fire, homeschooling b/c of the virus, redshirting because K will surely be challenging this year given last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Schools were not "closed" last year.

If you close your eyes and say it 3x, then it may have a better chance of actually becoming true one day.

The closed school activists lost the semantic battle on "closed" schools a long time ago. Search it in Google News and/or ask every day people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Schools were not "closed" last year.

If you close your eyes and say it 3x, then it may have a better chance of actually becoming true one day.

The closed school activists lost the semantic battle on "closed" schools a long time ago. Search it in Google News and/or ask every day people.

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

Schools weren't closed. No one has ever been advocating for "closed schools".

[Anonymous]

Latest APE newsletter is hot off the presses:
https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=12119a80f9eb7a7322f4902ae&id=91631aacd6

[Anonymous]

Why peddle this lie?

APS Enrollment Plummets

APS’ response to COVID continues to be reflected in APS’s enrollment data for this school year (which is largely consistent with APE’s analyses of such unenrollment from this past summer). Based on the enrollment data from the first week of school, APS’ enrollment:
declined 4.4% (approx. 1,200 students) since June 2020; and
is 11.5% (approx. 3,100 students) less than APS projected in 2019
that enrollment would be for this school year.
Other notable unenrollment figures vs. June 2020 include:
Pre-K enrollment declined 22% (approx. 240 students)
enrollment declined 11.7% (approx. 260 students)
For those kids who were in APS in Grades K-6 in June 2020, enrollment of those same students (now in Grades 2-8) declined 9.3% (approx. 210 students per grade)
This level of unenrollment is stunning, because it happened both with K and Pre-K (new students) as well as existing APS students. We know that strong public schools rely on the community's trust in them--when large numbers of children are being sent to private school instead of public, it speaks to concerns that parents have with public school quality. We ask what APS is doing to ensure these kids come back to APS, and that in subsequent years we have new students enrolling in our public schools rather than private ones.

[Anonymous]

It's not a lie at all. Disenrollment is real. APE is looking at the wrong numbers tho. Should compare September 2019 -> September 2021. Everything else confusing things. And why June 2020? That's just a weird date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why peddle this lie?

APS Enrollment Plummets

APS’ response to COVID continues to be reflected in APS’s enrollment data for this school year (which is largely consistent with APE’s analyses of such unenrollment from this past summer). Based on the enrollment data from the first week of school, APS’ enrollment:
declined 4.4% (approx. 1,200 students) since June 2020; and
is 11.5% (approx. 3,100 students) less than APS projected in 2019
that enrollment would be for this school year.
Other notable unenrollment figures vs. June 2020 include:
Pre-K enrollment declined 22% (approx. 240 students)
enrollment declined 11.7% (approx. 260 students)
For those kids who were in APS in Grades K-6 in June 2020, enrollment of those same students (now in Grades 2-8) declined 9.3% (approx. 210 students per grade)
This level of unenrollment is stunning, because it happened both with K and Pre-K (new students) as well as existing APS students. We know that strong public schools rely on the community's trust in them--when large numbers of children are being sent to private school instead of public, it speaks to concerns that parents have with public school quality. We ask what APS is doing to ensure these kids come back to APS, and that in subsequent years we have new students enrolling in our public schools rather than private ones.

Ha Ha. By "plummets," APE means APS enrollment rises slightly from September 2020. You can't make this up (of course they did just that, LOL).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why peddle this lie?

APS Enrollment Plummets

APS’ response to COVID continues to be reflected in APS’s enrollment data for this school year (which is largely consistent with APE’s analyses of such unenrollment from this past summer). Based on the enrollment data from the first week of school, APS’ enrollment:
declined 4.4% (approx. 1,200 students) since June 2020; and
is 11.5% (approx. 3,100 students) less than APS projected in 2019
that enrollment would be for this school year.
Other notable unenrollment figures vs. June 2020 include:
Pre-K enrollment declined 22% (approx. 240 students)
enrollment declined 11.7% (approx. 260 students)
For those kids who were in APS in Grades K-6 in June 2020, enrollment of those same students (now in Grades 2-8) declined 9.3% (approx. 210 students per grade)
This level of unenrollment is stunning, because it happened both with K and Pre-K (new students) as well as existing APS students. We know that strong public schools rely on the community's trust in them--when large numbers of children are being sent to private school instead of public, it speaks to concerns that parents have with public school quality. We ask what APS is doing to ensure these kids come back to APS, and that in subsequent years we have new students enrolling in our public schools rather than private ones.

Ha Ha. By "plummets," APE means APS enrollment rises slightly from September 2020. You can't make this up (of course they did just that, LOL).

Haha - yeah, if you take a look at June 2021 to August 2021, it rose by even more. It rose between the 1st day of school and the end of this week too. Let's instead cherry pick numbers vs. looking at enrollment decline from APS' handling of COVID from March or June 2020.

Pathetic (but funny)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not a lie at all. Disenrollment is real. APE is looking at the wrong numbers tho. Should compare September 2019 -> September 2021. Everything else confusing things. And why June 2020? That's just a weird date.

June 2020 measures effect on enrollment from APS' handling of COVID.

[Anonymous]

All data is helpful.

Sept 2019 - baseline
June 2020 - early pandemic
Sept 2020 - peak pandemic
Sept 2021 - kids are back, but not all

Obviously, some families moved and others went private, etc.

Their reasons for leaving are irrelevant. Focus on the kids in schools now.