APS Thursday

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Anonymous wrote: I'm glad they're announcing it now. And I'm glad that they are being cautious. It is easy for the rest of us to be back-seat drivers but we have to remember that the safety of the kids is the primary factor.

If it is icy, then some of the hilly streets are treacherous. Kids should not be on buses and they shouldn't be walking along roads with no sidewalks in those kinds of conditions to get to school because it is too dangerous.

It would be horrifying if a child was killed when we knew at least 12 hours in advance that the conditions could / will be dangerous.

Yup. I think they've been more cautious ever since that bus crashed on a snowy morning. I don't blame them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I’m afraid that if covid teacher absences are still common (I haven’t been tracking, aside from my kids’ teachers), that + Fairfax resident teachers taking leave tomorrow will = closure for APS. Unless there has been an influx of new subs that I’m not aware of.

There hasn’t

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do we do memes here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:do we do memes here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eh, my kindergartener hasn't had a school day with her teacher yet in 2022, just the assistant has been present. What's another day?

Is the teacher out sick? Or taking care of a sick family member? You sound kind. Your 5 yo will be fine, even with an assistant. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Duran must go

[Anonymous]

We've decided we won't participate with virtual school. (kids are in 1st and 4,th grade). It the next time is a virtual day, we won't attempt to partake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've decided we won't participate with virtual school. (kids are in 1st and 4,th grade). It the next time is a virtual day, we won't attempt to partake.

If there’s good snow we will play outside at will. If there’s no snow, I won’t help or hinder the process for my 1st grader. Up to him whether he does it.

[Anonymous]

Who closes school for a bit of cold rain? Ugh.

[Anonymous]

We won’t encourage participation in future virtual days for our 1st grader, though we will let him know it’s an option and if he chooses to log on, cool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With so many APS teachers residing in Fairfax, it really depends not just on the weather but how many teachers will call out.

Sigh, I had forgotten that. School isn't childcare, except for teachers.

Exactly. And if their childcare falls through then they get a taxpayer paid day off while the rest of us burn leave or scramble to find alternative arrangements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eh, my kindergartener hasn't had a school day with her teacher yet in 2022, just the assistant has been present. What's another day?

Is the teacher out sick? Or taking care of a sick family member? You sound kind. Your 5 yo will be fine, even with an assistant. Unbelievable.

How would I know? APS doesn't share that information with parents. Just another day in the pandemic. No subs. No teacher. No school. Shrug.

[Anonymous]

Exactly. And if their childcare falls through then they get a taxpayer paid day off while the rest of us burn leave or scramble to find alternative arrangements.

What you are failing to see is that APS is reacting to teachers using their leave as needed. You can’t compare your office drone job that can go on with or without you for a day. If you aren’t there and take a day of leave your company can still operate without you. It’s not APS school staff fault that teachers are using their earned leave for childcare when other districts close which then puts APS in a bind and unable to operate because they can’t operate with less than a certain number of staff to supervise kids. Then APS has to make a decision on if they can operate.

And we can’t act like decisions of other counties, especially one as large as FCPS with over 180,000 students, won’t impact APS which is tiny comparatively. A large portion of APS staff lives in Fairfax and Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Exactly. And if their childcare falls through then they get a taxpayer paid day off while the rest of us burn leave or scramble to find alternative arrangements.

What you are failing to see is that APS is reacting to teachers using their leave as needed. You can’t compare your office drone job that can go on with or without you for a day. If you aren’t there and take a day of leave your company can still operate without you. It’s not APS school staff fault that teachers are using their earned leave for childcare when other districts close which then puts APS in a bind and unable to operate because they can’t operate with less than a certain number of staff to supervise kids. Then APS has to make a decision on if they can operate.

And we can’t act like decisions of other counties, especially one as large as FCPS with over 180,000 students, won’t impact APS which is tiny comparatively. A large portion of APS staff lives in Fairfax and Alexandria.

What annoys me, is what bulls—r this narrative is. FCPS closes all the time, and we open. Last Thursday was because those absences, combined with CoVID absences, were too many. Is it really impossible that today is about the weather?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Exactly. And if their childcare falls through then they get a taxpayer paid day off while the rest of us burn leave or scramble to find alternative arrangements.

What you are failing to see is that APS is reacting to teachers using their leave as needed. You can’t compare your office drone job that can go on with or without you for a day. If you aren’t there and take a day of leave your company can still operate without you. It’s not APS school staff fault that teachers are using their earned leave for childcare when other districts close which then puts APS in a bind and unable to operate because they can’t operate with less than a certain number of staff to supervise kids. Then APS has to make a decision on if they can operate.

And we can’t act like decisions of other counties, especially one as large as FCPS with over 180,000 students, won’t impact APS which is tiny comparatively. A large portion of APS staff lives in Fairfax and Alexandria.

Wow you are a jerk.