APS concurrent for grades 3-5

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rambling response from Loft. She acknowledged what she said in August but said they don’t have teacher staffing to support hybrid for everyone. Also, Pope’s MS Teams picture is highly unprofessional.

Translation:

"We don't have what we need to make our vision of hybrid learning work, so instead you're going to get a worse model of it that I, myself, said wasn't appropriate for upper elementary."

Loft needs to go. She was behind the decision to stop teaching this spring. She also instructed principals not to make classroom assignments based on hybrid/DL elections even thought many parents raised with her that this would be a huge issue. She makes the wrong call at every turn. Cut her loose already, Duran!

The decision not to teach new material was based on a lot of things, as far as I can tell. The county did not have infrastructure for live virtual instruction (Teams). The staff weren’t trained on how to use it, and many had not even used Canvas all that much. She didn’t want older kids’ grades to suffer by being held accountable to that. I think there was a pony in that first month or so when no one really knew how long this would last.

If she’d packed it in, you still would’ve bitched.

Please. Could’ve at least not prohibited new instruction, which is what she did. Teachers who were teaching were stopped in their tracks. Could’ve suspended grades and still folded 4th quarter into the next year without just dropping all new instruction. It was absurd.

[Anonymous]

APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

That’s ridiculous. She wouldn’t give you book recommendations?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

I can’t believe a teacher would go to the trouble of writing a reply email and refrain from naming book recommendations in the name of equity. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

I can’t believe a teacher would go to the trouble of writing a reply email and refrain from naming book recommendations in the name of equity. Wow.

Probably the teacher was as furious as we were as parents (not PP), and wanted to make a point at how ridiculous it was. Our principal told us in the spring that the system's only priority was feeding kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rambling response from Loft. She acknowledged what she said in August but said they don’t have teacher staffing to support hybrid for everyone. Also, Pope’s MS Teams picture is highly unprofessional.

Translation:

"We don't have what we need to make our vision of hybrid learning work, so instead you're going to get a worse model of it that I, myself, said wasn't appropriate for upper elementary."

Loft needs to go. She was behind the decision to stop teaching this spring. She also instructed principals not to make classroom assignments based on hybrid/DL elections even thought many parents raised with her that this would be a huge issue. She makes the wrong call at every turn. Cut her loose already, Duran!

The decision not to teach new material was based on a lot of things, as far as I can tell. The county did not have infrastructure for live virtual instruction (Teams). The staff weren’t trained on how to use it, and many had not even used Canvas all that much. She didn’t want older kids’ grades to suffer by being held accountable to that. I think there was a pony in that first month or so when no one really knew how long this would last.

Stop making excuses for APS' and the school board's incompetency. Every school district was able to take a week or two off and regroup with live instruction. APS is a damn joke and the excuse was equity. This is what we get when we politicize the school board. The equity mission has gone too far and this what we get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

Same from. March through June my Kindergartner got 5 minutes of interaction from their K teacher a week. # defund APs. I say that in jest, but seriously, the folks that made these decision need to leave and the SB needs to get it's priorities straight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rambling response from Loft. She acknowledged what she said in August but said they don’t have teacher staffing to support hybrid for everyone. Also, Pope’s MS Teams picture is highly unprofessional.

Translation:

"We don't have what we need to make our vision of hybrid learning work, so instead you're going to get a worse model of it that I, myself, said wasn't appropriate for upper elementary."

Loft needs to go. She was behind the decision to stop teaching this spring. She also instructed principals not to make classroom assignments based on hybrid/DL elections even thought many parents raised with her that this would be a huge issue. She makes the wrong call at every turn. Cut her loose already, Duran!

The decision not to teach new material was based on a lot of things, as far as I can tell. The county did not have infrastructure for live virtual instruction (Teams). The staff weren’t trained on how to use it, and many had not even used Canvas all that much. She didn’t want older kids’ grades to suffer by being held accountable to that. I think there was a pony in that first month or so when no one really knew how long this would last.

You say that like APS was using that time for instruction. K-2 teachers had nothing to do except forward a few emails from the administration for March-June, including APS closing a week early in June. They got their first tech training in August/September. APS literally wasted months of instructional time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rambling response from Loft. She acknowledged what she said in August but said they don’t have teacher staffing to support hybrid for everyone. Also, Pope’s MS Teams picture is highly unprofessional.

Translation:

"We don't have what we need to make our vision of hybrid learning work, so instead you're going to get a worse model of it that I, myself, said wasn't appropriate for upper elementary."

Loft needs to go. She was behind the decision to stop teaching this spring. She also instructed principals not to make classroom assignments based on hybrid/DL elections even thought many parents raised with her that this would be a huge issue. She makes the wrong call at every turn. Cut her loose already, Duran!

The decision not to teach new material was based on a lot of things, as far as I can tell. The county did not have infrastructure for live virtual instruction (Teams). The staff weren’t trained on how to use it, and many had not even used Canvas all that much. She didn’t want older kids’ grades to suffer by being held accountable to that. I think there was a pony in that first month or so when no one really knew how long this would last.

Stop making excuses for APS' and the school board's incompetency. Every school district was able to take a week or two off and regroup with live instruction. APS is a damn joke and the excuse was equity. This is what we get when we politicize the school board. The equity mission has gone too far and this what we get.

X1000 this.

[Anonymous]

APS is failing our kids and wasting our tax dollars. Can we impeach and start over??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

I can’t believe a teacher would go to the trouble of writing a reply email and refrain from naming book recommendations in the name of equity. Wow.

Probably the teacher was as furious as we were as parents (not PP), and wanted to make a point at how ridiculous it was. Our principal told us in the spring that the system's only priority was feeding kids.

Or maybe the teacher thoroughly supported the policy. How would you know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

I can’t believe a teacher would go to the trouble of writing a reply email and refrain from naming book recommendations in the name of equity. Wow.

Probably the teacher was as furious as we were as parents (not PP), and wanted to make a point at how ridiculous it was. Our principal told us in the spring that the system's only priority was feeding kids.

Or maybe the teacher thoroughly supported the policy. How would you know?

The teacher later canceled one of the few class calls because she was taking her kids to a vacation at the beach, so I'm pretty sure she just didn't give a f---.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

I can’t believe a teacher would go to the trouble of writing a reply email and refrain from naming book recommendations in the name of equity. Wow.

Probably the teacher was as furious as we were as parents (not PP), and wanted to make a point at how ridiculous it was. Our principal told us in the spring that the system's only priority was feeding kids.

Or maybe the teacher thoroughly supported the policy. How would you know?

The teacher later canceled one of the few class calls because she was taking her kids to a vacation at the beach, so I'm pretty sure she just didn't give a f---.

Now I get it. You’re probably just a huge pain in the ass, and your email had to do with more than book title recommendations, which you could’ve actually just Googled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

Duran is discriminating for the purpose of equity and our kids are suffering. He needs to create a better plan for all. yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS did more than prohibit new instruction in the spring, they prohibited nearly all interactions for K-2. In April I emailed my kid's teacher for book recommendations, as the public library and school library were closed and I didn’t want to buy books on the wrong level. Her teacher told me she wasn't permitted to recommend any books because not all parents have email so sending me book recommendations wouldn't be "equitable." I asked the Principal if that was really the APS policy and she backed up the teacher. It was absurd.

As far as I can tell my 2nd grader's math curriculum is waaaaay below grade level this year. This week they're practicing identifying circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You know, the same content covered in 2 year old preschool. It's really astoundingly bad.

Is this in APS???