[APS] Who is funding newly-incorporated APE

[Anonymous]

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

The APS Meeting Scoreboard is interesting. 0 minutes spent on academics, equity or learning loss recovery. But 23% of time spent on promotional items. What does the school board do again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or you know.....a little thing called....the pandemic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Compare March vs. June 2020. Same.

As noted in the newsletter, those who were in grades K-6 in the 2019-2020 school year (now in grades 2-8) who left last year did NOT come back (1,400+ students). At least another 500 not enrolling in new PK and K classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Compare March vs. June 2020. Same.

As noted in the newsletter, those who were in grades K-6 in the 2019-2020 school year (now in grades 2-8) who left last year did NOT come back (1,400+ students). At least another 500 not enrolling in new PK and K classes.

Ok and...?

Focus on the kids and families who showed up.

Not APS' job to figure out who moved or changed to private or VV or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Where are all the enrollment numbers coming from? I thought the first "official" count was on September 30.

[Anonymous]

Wow - this is pretty detailed and informative: https://www.arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/recaps/blog-post-title-three-3kpbn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Relevant Reference:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Relevant Reference:

this is so funny!! Sounds just like our school board!

[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.

Relevant to what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Compare March vs. June 2020. Same.

As noted in the newsletter, those who were in grades K-6 in the 2019-2020 school year (now in grades 2-8) who left last year did NOT come back (1,400+ students). At least another 500 not enrolling in new PK and K classes.

Ok and...?

Focus on the kids and families who showed up.

Not APS' job to figure out who moved or changed to private or VV or whatever.

A lot of APEs left APS. They want personal outreach from APS to air their gripes. This group really, really, really wants to be catered to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Compare March vs. June 2020. Same.

As noted in the newsletter, those who were in grades K-6 in the 2019-2020 school year (now in grades 2-8) who left last year did NOT come back (1,400+ students). At least another 500 not enrolling in new PK and K classes.

Ok and...?

Focus on the kids and families who showed up.

Not APS' job to figure out who moved or changed to private or VV or whatever.

A lot of APEs left APS. They want personal outreach from APS to air their gripes. This group really, really, really wants to be catered to.

They need some to stroke their egos. Soothe their tantrums. Pathetic.

[Anonymous]

First time poster (well, in this thread)

APE and the other group (forgot their name) have become echo chambers. Like the media, if you only spend your time in Breitbart/HuffingtonPost and then come to cage matches in DCUM or AEM, you're going to sound like you're in a cult.

I guess you enjoy bringing up the same conversations from a year ago over and over again, so nothing will change.

Cheers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First time poster (well, in this thread)

APE and the other group (forgot their name) have become echo chambers. Like the media, if you only spend your time in Breitbart/HuffingtonPost and then come to cage matches in DCUM or AEM, you're going to sound like you're in a cult.

I guess you enjoy bringing up the same conversations from a year ago over and over again, so nothing will change.

Cheers!

Great troll move by citing Breitbart when many APE members are actively involved in Arlington Dems

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First time poster (well, in this thread)

APE and the other group (forgot their name) have become echo chambers. Like the media, if you only spend your time in Breitbart/HuffingtonPost and then come to cage matches in DCUM or AEM, you're going to sound like you're in a cult.

I guess you enjoy bringing up the same conversations from a year ago over and over again, so nothing will change.

Cheers!

Interesting observation. As a member of AEM and APE this definitely sounds like AEM, much less so APE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First time poster (well, in this thread)

APE and the other group (forgot their name) have become echo chambers. Like the media, if you only spend your time in Breitbart/HuffingtonPost and then come to cage matches in DCUM or AEM, you're going to sound like you're in a cult.

I guess you enjoy bringing up the same conversations from a year ago over and over again, so nothing will change.

Cheers!

Great troll move by citing Breitbart when many APE members are actively involved in Arlington Dems

DP. Great troll move by misreading PP’s post.