APS cancels Summer school for many previously qualified students due to lack of staffing

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Anonymous wrote:Physician here. An essential worker is an essential! If you want to be in job that isn’t important , requires dedication and sacrifice and very necessary, then don’t be a teacher. I never once complained that my employer asked me go to VHC to take care of Covid patients. I never questioned anyones intentions. I took the proper precautions , followed CDD guidelines and did my job. I am still alive and kicking. There was no need for closing schools and hiding. Everyone who was essential needed to rise up, wear PPE, gloves and work. We are supposed to be in a different class all together and it’s sad teachers didn’t understand that but every other essential worker did. Sorry to break it to you...masks actually work and that was all that was really needed. That is the truth the private schools teachers and the rest of the public schools systems knew already.

Perhaps APS should pay them physician’s wages then.

Perhaps teachers’ degrees should be harder to obtain. As it stands, it’s one of the easiest degrees to get.

PP is a physician, but I am a nurse that also had to go in. Hospital custodians, and hell, even Costco workers, went to work without complaint. The entire time.
Without sufficient PPE. Was it stressful? Absolutely! But we are essential workers, just as teachers are.

So cut the crap about having “the worst year ever”. It’s a bit tone deaf when WE ALL HAVE HAD THE FIRST YEAR EVER.

Or fine, take the summer break, and then don’t ever complain about your low salaries ever again.

My husband’s cousin left her job as a waitress/bartender to become a nurse. She didn’t even have, or ever attain, a BA. She got fired for stealing pills. So, in short, not all essential workers, in any profession, are heroes. And maybe they aren’t any better educated or trained either, but they are better compensated, that’s for sure!

You’re a moron. Essential workers that are cashiers/stockroom employees at grocery stores aren’t compensated better than teachers. Nor is an LPN working in a nursing home.

I seriously have zero respect for teachers anymore. I’m not even complaining that they don’t want to work in the summer. I’m upset that they haven’t worked all year long. Such failures.

Sounds like you’re the failure who can only afford a public education for your precious children from teachers whom you despise and consider less educated land capable and beneath you! Why would you want your children in APS if this is how you value the people who used to spend more waking time with your children than you did?!?!

I used it as free babysitting while I worked, then I paid for outside tutoring to learn the things that should be covered in school. Next year, kids are In private. (Speaking of people fleeing APS, it’s not just teachers, but a lot of students also.) It’s horrible that families without means are stuck with the crappy product that is an APS education.

So I can see from your post why you aren’t the one teaching your child the things that “should be covered in school.”

Good one! Burnnnnn 🙄

We can tell who spends her days with 10 year olds. Seriously, aren’t you supposed to be teaching right now? Or is lunch at 10 these days?

Teachers are busy teaching, nimrod. *Parents* are calling out the teacher-hater a-holes.

Correct. I am PP, and I’m not a teacher, nor have I been. I just really like experienced and dedicated teachers, and my children have been fortunate to have both, almost exclusively. I don’t want them to leave because of the parents who blame them, castigate them for being lazy, and complain that, despite advanced degrees, they aren’t very capable, educated, but and intelligent people who could easily find other work.

Sure.

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Wait why are people so upset that teachers don’t want to teach extra during the summer? I get being disappointed but teachers have no responsibility to teach summer school.

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Anonymous wrote:Physician here. An essential worker is an essential! If you want to be in job that isn’t important , requires dedication and sacrifice and very necessary, then don’t be a teacher. I never once complained that my employer asked me go to VHC to take care of Covid patients. I never questioned anyones intentions. I took the proper precautions , followed CDD guidelines and did my job. I am still alive and kicking. There was no need for closing schools and hiding. Everyone who was essential needed to rise up, wear PPE, gloves and work. We are supposed to be in a different class all together and it’s sad teachers didn’t understand that but every other essential worker did. Sorry to break it to you...masks actually work and that was all that was really needed. That is the truth the private schools teachers and the rest of the public schools systems knew already.

Perhaps APS should pay them physician’s wages then.

Perhaps teachers’ degrees should be harder to obtain. As it stands, it’s one of the easiest degrees to get.

PP is a physician, but I am a nurse that also had to go in. Hospital custodians, and hell, even Costco workers, went to work without complaint. The entire time.
Without sufficient PPE. Was it stressful? Absolutely! But we are essential workers, just as teachers are.

So cut the crap about having “the worst year ever”. It’s a bit tone deaf when WE ALL HAVE HAD THE FIRST YEAR EVER.

Or fine, take the summer break, and then don’t ever complain about your low salaries ever again.

My husband’s cousin left her job as a waitress/bartender to become a nurse. She didn’t even have, or ever attain, a BA. She got fired for stealing pills. So, in short, not all essential workers, in any profession, are heroes. And maybe they aren’t any better educated or trained either, but they are better compensated, that’s for sure!

You’re a moron. Essential workers that are cashiers/stockroom employees at grocery stores aren’t compensated better than teachers. Nor is an LPN working in a nursing home.

I seriously have zero respect for teachers anymore. I’m not even complaining that they don’t want to work in the summer. I’m upset that they haven’t worked all year long. Such failures.

Sounds like you’re the failure who can only afford a public education for your precious children from teachers whom you despise and consider less educated land capable and beneath you! Why would you want your children in APS if this is how you value the people who used to spend more waking time with your children than you did?!?!

I used it as free babysitting while I worked, then I paid for outside tutoring to learn the things that should be covered in school. Next year, kids are In private. (Speaking of people fleeing APS, it’s not just teachers, but a lot of students also.) It’s horrible that families without means are stuck with the crappy product that is an APS education.

We are just waiting on our jobs to green light full time remote and then we are going to high tail it out of here. Our friends and family in other parts of the country--including public school employees--are absolutely horrified and aghast at what is going on here.

The irony of waiting to go full time remote while not even contemplating that some teachers may actually need the same accommodations.

Seems like the only reason they want to go remote is to move to a public school district that actually offers in-person instruction, and would be happy to stay otherwise.

Teachers are just lazy and want to stay home for…forever.

The majority of teachers have returned to classrooms. Now you want to force them to work summers for less pay than during the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait why are people so upset that teachers don’t want to teach extra during the summer? I get being disappointed but teachers have no responsibility to teach summer school.

It’s the pandemic. They’re lashing out. Much easier to blame people than a faceless virus. The virus is the reason this last year was so awful for us all, not the teachers. Get a grip, everyone! If you or your children need therapy, please get it. The trauma is real, but you can be helped and there is no shame in admitting you are overwhelmed and it was all too much. Blaming others and continuing to lash out rather than turning inward and making peace with all that has happened will not do you or your children any good!

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Anonymous wrote:Physician here. An essential worker is an essential! If you want to be in job that isn’t important , requires dedication and sacrifice and very necessary, then don’t be a teacher. I never once complained that my employer asked me go to VHC to take care of Covid patients. I never questioned anyones intentions. I took the proper precautions , followed CDD guidelines and did my job. I am still alive and kicking. There was no need for closing schools and hiding. Everyone who was essential needed to rise up, wear PPE, gloves and work. We are supposed to be in a different class all together and it’s sad teachers didn’t understand that but every other essential worker did. Sorry to break it to you...masks actually work and that was all that was really needed. That is the truth the private schools teachers and the rest of the public schools systems knew already.

Perhaps APS should pay them physician’s wages then.

Perhaps teachers’ degrees should be harder to obtain. As it stands, it’s one of the easiest degrees to get.

PP is a physician, but I am a nurse that also had to go in. Hospital custodians, and hell, even Costco workers, went to work without complaint. The entire time.
Without sufficient PPE. Was it stressful? Absolutely! But we are essential workers, just as teachers are.

So cut the crap about having “the worst year ever”. It’s a bit tone deaf when WE ALL HAVE HAD THE FIRST YEAR EVER.

Or fine, take the summer break, and then don’t ever complain about your low salaries ever again.

My husband’s cousin left her job as a waitress/bartender to become a nurse. She didn’t even have, or ever attain, a BA. She got fired for stealing pills. So, in short, not all essential workers, in any profession, are heroes. And maybe they aren’t any better educated or trained either, but they are better compensated, that’s for sure!

You’re a moron. Essential workers that are cashiers/stockroom employees at grocery stores aren’t compensated better than teachers. Nor is an LPN working in a nursing home.

I seriously have zero respect for teachers anymore. I’m not even complaining that they don’t want to work in the summer. I’m upset that they haven’t worked all year long. Such failures.

Sounds like you’re the failure who can only afford a public education for your precious children from teachers whom you despise and consider less educated land capable and beneath you! Why would you want your children in APS if this is how you value the people who used to spend more waking time with your children than you did?!?!

I used it as free babysitting while I worked, then I paid for outside tutoring to learn the things that should be covered in school. Next year, kids are In private. (Speaking of people fleeing APS, it’s not just teachers, but a lot of students also.) It’s horrible that families without means are stuck with the crappy product that is an APS education.

We are just waiting on our jobs to green light full time remote and then we are going to high tail it out of here. Our friends and family in other parts of the country--including public school employees--are absolutely horrified and aghast at what is going on here.

The irony of waiting to go full time remote while not even contemplating that some teachers may actually need the same accommodations.

Your reply doesn't even make sense.

Full time remote= ability to relocate anywhere and work remotely. ie, get the bleep out of Arlington because of the *hitshow that this year has been.

Teachers need to flee the abysmal manufactured crisis that APS has created? More power to them, I'll see them when we all relocate to less upside down locales.

Why can’t APS staff not work remotely either? Oh yeah. Because you think other adults should bend to your whims.

I feel bad for your kids.

In any case, next fall, except for the virtual school, all teachers will be back in person. I’m not even sure why you’re still whining.

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Anonymous wrote:Physician here. An essential worker is an essential! If you want to be in job that isn’t important , requires dedication and sacrifice and very necessary, then don’t be a teacher. I never once complained that my employer asked me go to VHC to take care of Covid patients. I never questioned anyones intentions. I took the proper precautions , followed CDD guidelines and did my job. I am still alive and kicking. There was no need for closing schools and hiding. Everyone who was essential needed to rise up, wear PPE, gloves and work. We are supposed to be in a different class all together and it’s sad teachers didn’t understand that but every other essential worker did. Sorry to break it to you...masks actually work and that was all that was really needed. That is the truth the private schools teachers and the rest of the public schools systems knew already.

Perhaps APS should pay them physician’s wages then.

Perhaps teachers’ degrees should be harder to obtain. As it stands, it’s one of the easiest degrees to get.

PP is a physician, but I am a nurse that also had to go in. Hospital custodians, and hell, even Costco workers, went to work without complaint. The entire time.
Without sufficient PPE. Was it stressful? Absolutely! But we are essential workers, just as teachers are.

So cut the crap about having “the worst year ever”. It’s a bit tone deaf when WE ALL HAVE HAD THE FIRST YEAR EVER.

Or fine, take the summer break, and then don’t ever complain about your low salaries ever again.

My husband’s cousin left her job as a waitress/bartender to become a nurse. She didn’t even have, or ever attain, a BA. She got fired for stealing pills. So, in short, not all essential workers, in any profession, are heroes. And maybe they aren’t any better educated or trained either, but they are better compensated, that’s for sure!

You’re a moron. Essential workers that are cashiers/stockroom employees at grocery stores aren’t compensated better than teachers. Nor is an LPN working in a nursing home.

I seriously have zero respect for teachers anymore. I’m not even complaining that they don’t want to work in the summer. I’m upset that they haven’t worked all year long. Such failures.

Sounds like you’re the failure who can only afford a public education for your precious children from teachers whom you despise and consider less educated land capable and beneath you! Why would you want your children in APS if this is how you value the people who used to spend more waking time with your children than you did?!?!

I used it as free babysitting while I worked, then I paid for outside tutoring to learn the things that should be covered in school. Next year, kids are In private. (Speaking of people fleeing APS, it’s not just teachers, but a lot of students also.) It’s horrible that families without means are stuck with the crappy product that is an APS education.

We are just waiting on our jobs to green light full time remote and then we are going to high tail it out of here. Our friends and family in other parts of the country--including public school employees--are absolutely horrified and aghast at what is going on here.

The irony of waiting to go full time remote while not even contemplating that some teachers may actually need the same accommodations.

Your reply doesn't even make sense.

Full time remote= ability to relocate anywhere and work remotely. ie, get the bleep out of Arlington because of the *hitshow that this year has been.

Teachers need to flee the abysmal manufactured crisis that APS has created? More power to them, I'll see them when we all relocate to less upside down locales.

Why can’t APS staff not work remotely either? Oh yeah. Because you think other adults should bend to your whims.

I feel bad for your kids.

In any case, next fall, except for the virtual school, all teachers will be back in person. I’m not even sure why you’re still whining.

Ummmm because lower ed and most ed was never designed to be full time virtual. Your argument literally makes no sense. You must be a troll. If someone wants a full time virtual job then they should look for one--public school teaching historically has not been one. This is not rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:Physician here. An essential worker is an essential! If you want to be in job that isn’t important , requires dedication and sacrifice and very necessary, then don’t be a teacher. I never once complained that my employer asked me go to VHC to take care of Covid patients. I never questioned anyones intentions. I took the proper precautions , followed CDD guidelines and did my job. I am still alive and kicking. There was no need for closing schools and hiding. Everyone who was essential needed to rise up, wear PPE, gloves and work. We are supposed to be in a different class all together and it’s sad teachers didn’t understand that but every other essential worker did. Sorry to break it to you...masks actually work and that was all that was really needed. That is the truth the private schools teachers and the rest of the public schools systems knew already.

Perhaps APS should pay them physician’s wages then.

Perhaps teachers’ degrees should be harder to obtain. As it stands, it’s one of the easiest degrees to get.

This one was clearly not smart enough to get a degree in economics.

Rub your last two brain cells together and think, really truly think about the types of environments teachers are working in (and dealing with trash like you) and then continue to figure out why the bar must be lower for a degree in education to fill those jobs up.

Take your time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait why are people so upset that teachers don’t want to teach extra during the summer? I get being disappointed but teachers have no responsibility to teach summer school.

I agree with this, but I think people are upset because APS announced a plan before it knew it had adequate staffing. APS had previously told people summer school was an option, but it put the cart before the horse because it didn't ask teachers first. That's a huge disappointment to families who were planning on it. I don't blame the teachers, but APS should have surveyed teachers first.

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Colleagues,

I apologize for the impact on our teaching staff of the SchoolTalk message about elementary summer school programming that was sent on Monday. My intention was to call attention to the fact that we have been unable to effectively recruit enough staff to serve all the students identified as eligible for summer school. I wanted to alert families to this so that they can make other plans. While we have been proactive in our messaging to families all along by including disclaimers in all summer school messaging that final enrollment would depend on staffing, starting Monday's message with this disclaimer distracted from the intent of the message and caused hurt and surprise for teachers. You are in no way at fault, and I regret that the message indicated that you were. You have enabled APS to be successful this year and that point should lead any message we send to the community. I am deeply sorry for any pain that this message caused and remain profoundly grateful for your professionalism and commitment to the success of our students.


Bridget

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Anonymous wrote:Colleagues,

I apologize for the impact on our teaching staff of the SchoolTalk message about elementary summer school programming that was sent on Monday. My intention was to call attention to the fact that we have been unable to effectively recruit enough staff to serve all the students identified as eligible for summer school. I wanted to alert families to this so that they can make other plans. While we have been proactive in our messaging to families all along by including disclaimers in all summer school messaging that final enrollment would depend on staffing, starting Monday's message with this disclaimer distracted from the intent of the message and caused hurt and surprise for teachers. You are in no way at fault, and I regret that the message indicated that you were. You have enabled APS to be successful this year and that point should lead any message we send to the community. I am deeply sorry for any pain that this message caused and remain profoundly grateful for your professionalism and commitment to the success of our students.


Bridget

LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Colleagues,

I apologize for the impact on our teaching staff of the SchoolTalk message about elementary summer school programming that was sent on Monday. My intention was to call attention to the fact that we have been unable to effectively recruit enough staff to serve all the students identified as eligible for summer school. I wanted to alert families to this so that they can make other plans. While we have been proactive in our messaging to families all along by including disclaimers in all summer school messaging that final enrollment would depend on staffing, starting Monday's message with this disclaimer distracted from the intent of the message and caused hurt and surprise for teachers. You are in no way at fault, and I regret that the message indicated that you were. You have enabled APS to be successful this year and that point should lead any message we send to the community. I am deeply sorry for any pain that this message caused and remain profoundly grateful for your professionalism and commitment to the success of our students.


Bridget

She needed to go yesterday. I can’t believe she’s still employed.
LOL

[Anonymous]

I want to clarify that the Arlington Parent's for Education group is NOT blaming teachers for the summer school change. Please see the press release they wrote yesterday: https://arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/press-releases/release-may-11th/

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The blame is on senior APS leadership and not teachers who "have [had] the hardest year of their careers".

APE says: "Arlington Parents for Education continues to be disappointed by the disregard APS shows towards teachers, families and students. At what point do we stop sacrificing the education of our children on the altar of incompetence at Syphax? The lack of urgency and willpower at the top should be concerning to us all."

[Anonymous]

Serious question: where would Syphax even get the money to attract more summer school teachers, who again, don’t have to teach outside of their contracts?

[Anonymous]

I want to clarify that the Arlington Parent's for Education group is NOT blaming teachers for the summer school change.[b] Please see the press release they wrote yesterday: https://arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/press-releases/release-may-11th/

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The blame is on senior APS leadership and not teachers who "have [had] the hardest year of their careers".

APE says: "Arlington Parents for Education continues to be disappointed by the disregard APS shows towards teachers, families and students. At what point do we stop sacrificing the education of our children on the altar of incompetence at Syphax? The lack of urgency and willpower at the top should be concerning to us all."

Maybe you need to communicate this to the teacher-haters on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question: where would Syphax even get the money to attract more summer school teachers, who again, don’t have to teach outside of their contracts?

Moving several ES schools around during a pandemic was super important to them. It had to happen, no delay.