APS concurrent for grades 3-5

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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.

Nope, just a realist who acknowledges that some teachers are doing their best and others are taking advantage of the situation to do less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So could APS handle if all kids were hybrid? That is unfortunately a possibility for fall. What is needed? Additional transportation, teachers?

No. In reality, too many families chose hybrid and that is one driver for the concurrent plan.

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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.

Nope, just a realist who acknowledges that some teachers are doing their best and others are taking advantage of the situation to do less.

I don’t believe your book recommendation story, quite frankly, and I still think you could’ve just Googled them, anyway. My guess is you take the term “public servant” a little too far.

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Anonymous wrote:So could APS handle if all kids were hybrid? That is unfortunately a possibility for fall. What is needed? Additional transportation, teachers?

No. In reality, too many families chose hybrid and that is one driver for the concurrent plan.

Nothing more is really needed. Teachers should double-mask, wear a face shield if they want, and all kids should be back 5 days/week. Kids should wear masks and self-distance on busses. This is not rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:So could APS handle if all kids were hybrid? That is unfortunately a possibility for fall. What is needed? Additional transportation, teachers?

No. In reality, too many families chose hybrid and that is one driver for the concurrent plan.

Nothing more is really needed. Teachers should double-mask, wear a face shield if they want, and all kids should be back 5 days/week. Kids should wear masks and self-distance on busses. This is not rocket science.

Our school literally does not have the space to separate everyone the required distance and have them in the building. It’s not rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:So could APS handle if all kids were hybrid? That is unfortunately a possibility for fall. What is needed? Additional transportation, teachers?

No. In reality, too many families chose hybrid and that is one driver for the concurrent plan.

Nothing more is really needed. Teachers should double-mask, wear a face shield if they want, and all kids should be back 5 days/week. Kids should wear masks and self-distance on busses. This is not rocket science.

Our school literally does not have the space to separate everyone the required distance and have them in the building. It’s not rocket science.

We now know there is nothing magical about six feet. Once teachers are vaccinated and parents are vaccinated (hopefully by the summer), schools can reopen 5 days a week with kids spread out as best they can and kids wearing masks. There is no more need for hybrid.

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We currently are a DL family and I hope by fall you are right. That’s not now and that’s not concurrent which was the point of this thread.

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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.

Nope, just a realist who acknowledges that some teachers are doing their best and others are taking advantage of the situation to do less.

I don’t believe your book recommendation story, quite frankly, and I still think you could’ve just Googled them, anyway. My guess is you take the term “public servant” a little too far.

I could Google books, but couldn't Google what books would be appropriate for my daughter. She'd been in her class all year, so I thought she'd have a better idea. Normally I'd just get a selection from the library, but that wasn't an option in April.

Believe what you wish. I posted about this same incident last spring in several of the threads about APS. Feel free to do a search.

[Anonymous]

I’m not in APS but a parent did email me asking what I would normally cover in 4th quarter and pacing guides that aren’t published publicly. Admin told me I couldn’t share it. And it went back and forth 2/3 times and eventually it escalated to admin and I agreed it was ridiculous but we really and truly could not provide that to parents.

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(I probably would have recommended choice reading books though since that’s different but if admin told her not to that’s what it was)