Two of my kids’ 3 teachers won’t be in tomorrow

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

Tell that to my kid who is still watching pre recorded videos of their classes on in person day.

Look, if that’s happening at all, I think it’s very rare. Teachers get three personal days a year. A few years ago, one of my kids’ teachers took a whole week off for a wedding, and that kind of pissed me off, but that’s the only abuse of leave I’ve ever seen, as a teacher and a parent. I also let it go- because it’s just not that big of a deal. My kid is fine.

No. This is weekly for specials. About half of her specials are prerecorded. Now that she's in person, the teachers are choosing to play themselves prerecorded instead of teaching live, even when they are present.

I don't know what the rest of APS is doing, but it's not rare for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Specials!? GMAFB. You act like it’s math omg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Specials!? GMAFB. You act like it’s math omg

+1

A recorded video so the PE teacher doesn't get exposed to 300 kids per week?

Some parents are so ridiculous...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

Tell that to my kid who is still watching pre recorded videos of their classes on in person day.

Look, if that’s happening at all, I think it’s very rare. Teachers get three personal days a year. A few years ago, one of my kids’ teachers took a whole week off for a wedding, and that kind of pissed me off, but that’s the only abuse of leave I’ve ever seen, as a teacher and a parent. I also let it go- because it’s just not that big of a deal. My kid is fine.

Technically you can roll 3 over and have a max total of 6. It's possible the teacher didn't take any personal days or just 1 the year prior so he/she had the time for the wedding the following year. I had a year where I had a few out of town fall Friday weddings so I saved my days from the year before. I didn't take off a full week though- my principal rarely approves things like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the name for what the non-teacher is doing here, in explaining to the teacher how many hours they work per day and how many days per year? Like mansplaining but for this situation. Arlsplaining? DCUMsplaining? NArlsplaining? (I mean, surely it's someone from north arlington doing this amirite?)

Dorksplaining?

APSplaining?

I’m pretty sure it’s mansplaining too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Specials!? GMAFB. You act like it’s math omg

It is math too. But thanks for the support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Specials!? GMAFB. You act like it’s math omg

+1

A recorded video so the PE teacher doesn't get exposed to 300 kids per week?

Some parents are so ridiculous...

The PE teacher is there. Present. Just not teaching.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Specials!? GMAFB. You act like it’s math omg

It is math too. But thanks for the support.

What is there to support? School is different this year. It just is. You are having trouble coping with something EVERYONE is experiencing. My god, the kids are resilient and fine but you guys . Damn. Get it together, your kid will go on and do just fine in life experiencing one quarter in school with recorded specials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Specials!? GMAFB. You act like it’s math omg

It is math too. But thanks for the support.

What is there to support? School is different this year. It just is. You are having trouble coping with something EVERYONE is experiencing. My god, the kids are resilient and fine but you guys . Damn. Get it together, your kid will go on and do just fine in life experiencing one quarter in school with recorded specials.

It hasn't been a quarter. You're clueless. Some APS teachers are still refusing to teach and that's not okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Specials!? GMAFB. You act like it’s math omg

It is math too. But thanks for the support.

What is there to support? School is different this year. It just is. You are having trouble coping with something EVERYONE is experiencing. My god, the kids are resilient and fine but you guys . Damn. Get it together, your kid will go on and do just fine in life experiencing one quarter in school with recorded specials.

It hasn't been a quarter. You're clueless. Some APS teachers are still refusing to teach and that's not okay.

Fake news!

[Anonymous]

Look, it's clear at YOUR school the hybrid and departmentalization has not been managed well BY THE PRINCIPAL. It is poor leadership for him/her to allow teachers to continue teaching core subjects virtually to students while both are in person. At every APS school most specials are continuing to be taught virtually even if staff is present due to high levels of exposure. The exception at my school is PE and I'm honestly not sure why they decided PE could be in person but they did. At my school we did not departmentalize at all this year (when we usually do by ELA and Math/Content). It has been a learning experience for us teachers who are used to teaching only the two subjects to learn the curriculum for the other subjects while also learning how to teach virtually and concurrently, but we are hanging in there and some of us prefer not departmentalizing now that we've experienced it.

Anyhow, the vast majority of elementary students in APS are not being taught virtually while they are in person in the core academic subjects. So stop pushing that it is happening everywhere and start working to make changes at YOUR school by going up the chain, speaking at APS board meetings and naming your school, emailing Duran and DTL staff, etc. Complaining on an anonymous forum isn't going to change the scenario at your own school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, it's clear at YOUR school the hybrid and departmentalization has not been managed well BY THE PRINCIPAL. It is poor leadership for him/her to allow teachers to continue teaching core subjects virtually to students while both are in person. At every APS school most specials are continuing to be taught virtually even if staff is present due to high levels of exposure. The exception at my school is PE and I'm honestly not sure why they decided PE could be in person but they did. At my school we did not departmentalize at all this year (when we usually do by ELA and Math/Content). It has been a learning experience for us teachers who are used to teaching only the two subjects to learn the curriculum for the other subjects while also learning how to teach virtually and concurrently, but we are hanging in there and some of us prefer not departmentalizing now that we've experienced it.

Anyhow, the vast majority of elementary students in APS are not being taught virtually while they are in person in the core academic subjects. So stop pushing that it is happening everywhere and start working to make changes at YOUR school by going up the chain, speaking at APS board meetings and naming your school, emailing Duran and DTL staff, etc. Complaining on an anonymous forum isn't going to change the scenario at your own school.

What makes you the concern police? I'm an APS parent with legitimate concerns. I'm not making it up. I've expressed my concerns via many avenues to APS to zero effect. APS admin and the school board either think in person teaching via iPad is fine or doesn't have the bandwidth to respond. I do think there is a broader issue with APS letting schools and principals make vastly different decisions with no oversight whatsoever. For all of APS's talk of equity, it is extremely inequitable. So no, I won't stop speaking up.

Why not be supportive and agree that you'd be upset if it was your kid? If you're sick of hearing it, then just scroll past.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here. I am in meetings for usually 5 hours on Mondays. I spend 2-3 hours with my language arts team planning and preparing the comi week’s (or the week after if we are ahead) lessons, assignments, and recordings. So, we aren’t continuously live that whole time. Then in the afternoon we meet as a grade level team and review the planned lessons each person did for the week with the team so we are all prepared to teach it as well as discuss assessments, scheduling for interventions, projects coming up. Then I also work preparing things on my own and working on IEPs or other paperwork (I’m a special Ed teacher for this grade level).

APS changed their plan for tomorrow just a few weeks ago, and some teachers, like MANY students, will still be traveling back and not able to hold synchronous classes tomorrow. You wouldn’t know if they had taken the day of asynchronous but it was likely already planned in advance. Sorry yea hers don’t get to take their earned leave in your view.

Mondays are still a complete waste of time. Notice no teaching actually happens. You can list your Monday plans all day. Kids are not learning on Monday. Full stop.

If kids are not learning, how is it a waste of time. Don’t log in. If any of you think it takes 40 hours of week to learn that is the problem. In a regular year, Kids are only actively being taught at most 3 hours per day anyway! And learning is even less time.

Geez so how much do teachers make per hour of actual teaching time if that’s the case? It’s got to be higher per hour than all other tax payer funded positions etc maybe the top positions in government with all the breaks, holidays, and the summers. I’m in the wrong profession.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look, it's clear at YOUR school the hybrid and departmentalization has not been managed well BY THE PRINCIPAL. It is poor leadership for him/her to allow teachers to continue teaching core subjects virtually to students while both are in person. At every APS school most specials are continuing to be taught virtually even if staff is present due to high levels of exposure. The exception at my school is PE and I'm honestly not sure why they decided PE could be in person but they did. At my school we did not departmentalize at all this year (when we usually do by ELA and Math/Content). It has been a learning experience for us teachers who are used to teaching only the two subjects to learn the curriculum for the other subjects while also learning how to teach virtually and concurrently, but we are hanging in there and some of us prefer not departmentalizing now that we've experienced it.

Anyhow, the vast majority of elementary students in APS are not being taught virtually while they are in person in the core academic subjects. So stop pushing that it is happening everywhere and start working to make changes at YOUR school by going up the chain, speaking at APS board meetings and naming your school, emailing Duran and DTL staff, etc. Complaining on an anonymous forum isn't going to change the scenario at your own school.

What makes you the concern police? I'm an APS parent with legitimate concerns. I'm not making it up. I've expressed my concerns via many avenues to APS to zero effect. APS admin and the school board either think in person teaching via iPad is fine or doesn't have the bandwidth to respond. I do think there is a broader issue with APS letting schools and principals make vastly different decisions with no oversight whatsoever. For all of APS's talk of equity, it is extremely inequitable. So no, I won't stop speaking up.

Why not be supportive and agree that you'd be upset if it was your kid? If you're sick of hearing it, then just scroll past.

I would be upset if it was my kid. But I wouldn't go on every thread of an anonymous forum and push it like it was happening everywhere. I would be working to make changes that would positively benefit my kid. I'd be speaking at board meetings, rallying other concerned parents (strength in numbers). What you are doing is not going to effect change. Concerns and complaints are not the same. Have you mentioned this on AEM? Naming the school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Good lord. It is April of 2021 and y’all are STILL playing this “teachers refused to work” game? Get a life. I mean it. Address your real issues. This is embarrassing.

+1,000. So transparent and cringeworthy.

Yep!