So over APS

[Anonymous]

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I really don't understand the APS apologists. We all agree that APS teachers were unhappy this year, right? They got poor info from administrators and a constantly changing story. The tech was terrible. The RTS planning atrocious. Disorganized and ever changing. So why is it so hard to believe that many teachers had terrible morale and underperformed? There was no incentive to do better. There was no enthusiasm. It was a long and terrible slog. I'm sure some with a naturally peppy disposition managed to keep their pep, but that surely wasn't universal.

Oh, I see, we are judging teacher quality on how "peppy" teachers are.

Yes, the entitled parents are judging on exactly that. Any time a teacher has said that they had kids not showing up, turning off their cameras and peacing out instead of doing their work or paying attention, the hysteri-mommies came rushing out of the woodwork to tell them that "my precious snowflake would participate if only YOU WERE MORE ENGAGING" (read: entertaining, dancing and cavorting like a party clown, and somehow magically able to compete with lack of parenting, lack of supervision, lack of clearly enforced parental expectations, oh, and video games and YouTube).

Ah yes, the peppiness patrol! Not just moms, though, we have at least one APS admin like this. She likes to point out that there aren’t behavior problems at birthday parties because the entertainers are so engaging, and wonders why we can’t be more like that.

Yes, let’s all be like Chuck E. Cheese.

[Anonymous]

Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on.

Deep breaths.

[Anonymous]

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Why do people have so much faith in Duran. Sure, I like that he emails families and seems more upfront about his (bad, IMO) plans. Why do so many have such confidence?

Is your background in public health, child development, or education?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on.

Deep breaths.

thx, you really added a lot to the conversation.

[Anonymous]

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Why do people have so much faith in Duran. Sure, I like that he emails families and seems more upfront about his (bad, IMO) plans. Why do so many have such confidence?

Is your background in public health, child development, or education?

Yes, actually 2 of the 3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on.

Deep breaths.

thx, you really added a lot to the conversation.

Yes. It’s tough to compete with observations like “WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on.

Oh no, it's a pandemic!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on. [/quote

Anyone who has been anywhere in the DMV in the past month can see that most people have moved on from the pandemic. The only people who seem not to realize that are APS and maybe Arlington as a whole. And even during this GLOBAL PANDEMIC (which it was but is not an excuse to avoid tough decisions), many schools were open throughout the country without dire consequences and certainly throughout the world as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on. [/quote

Anyone who has been anywhere in the DMV in the past month can see that most people have moved on from the pandemic. The only people who seem not to realize that are APS and maybe Arlington as a whole. And even during this GLOBAL PANDEMIC (which it was but is not an excuse to avoid tough decisions), many schools were open throughout the country without dire consequences and certainly throughout the world as well.

No dire consequences aside from those who contracted COVID at school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on. [/quote

Anyone who has been anywhere in the DMV in the past month can see that most people have moved on from the pandemic. The only people who seem not to realize that are APS and maybe Arlington as a whole. And even during this GLOBAL PANDEMIC (which it was but is not an excuse to avoid tough decisions), many schools were open throughout the country without dire consequences and certainly throughout the world as well.

No dire consequences aside from those who contracted COVID at school.

But were they really more dire than our students being out of school for a year? And really, in places where schools were open it was a nonevent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on. [/quote

Anyone who has been anywhere in the DMV in the past month can see that most people have moved on from the pandemic. The only people who seem not to realize that are APS and maybe Arlington as a whole. And even during this GLOBAL PANDEMIC (which it was but is not an excuse to avoid tough decisions), many schools were open throughout the country without dire consequences and certainly throughout the world as well.

No dire consequences aside from those who contracted COVID at school.

DP. Reaching back to May 2020 for a response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like Duran a ton. He’s a leader who listens. He did pretty well brand new facing something utterly precedents. Thumbs up here. And he seems to care about teachers.

Too bad he doesn’t seem to care about the young elementary kids who couldn’t even read and were left to fend for themselves on Teams meetings unless mom or dad cut their work hours to act as an unpaid assistant teacher. He could have at least prioritized getting K-2 back more days, but he doesn’t seem to understand or care how awful this past year was for our youngest learners.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Like the old 76ers, this school system should adopt a slogan for 2021-22: “We Owe You One!”

So entitled. APS doesn't own you anything. WE ARE IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. if you and your family survived, be grateful and move on.

I think the observation is not that APS is performing poorly in a pandemic but that the pandemic has highlighted problems that have always been there.

I also think that it’s entitled for APS to expect no complaints. A government service is there to serve the public. The public is entitled to complaint. The school is not entitled to a complaint-free existence.