APS VPL is a dumpster fire

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

So what? I have zero sympathy on this.
And if parents want to continue with it, drop the APS program and sign up for Virtual Virginia or some other online provider

I'm very opposed to the virtual program for all but those with certified medical reasons like what Fairfax did. However, I have a lot of sympathy for these virtual parents and especially the kids because they were expecting APS to provide them with virtual school. If APS couldn't staff it, that should have been communicated clearly in advance so they could make alternative plans. It's probably very late in the game to do Virtual Virginia.

A number of people on Arlington County Matters were discussing for weeks the large number of open virtual teaching positions. These problems were easy to foresee for those few people actually paying attention to local political issues.

Nope. They got exactly what they deserved. I think APS should cancel the whole thing.

Well, that's not going to happen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

42 open VLP teaching positions on APS' Careers website. APS said at the townhall that they'd be using subs and third party providers (like Virtual Virginia).

FCPS limited their program to only those kids with certified medical reasons. Their program has 0.2% enrollment of student body whereas APS currently has 3%. And I haven't heard of any issues with FCPS' program.

Who is hurting by APS opening the program to those parents who don't follow the science that school is safe? Those APS kids who have certified medical reasons to be in the program!

Notably, 17 of those 42 VLP open teaching positions are for SPED. Don't wait to hear anything about this travesty from Arlington's Special Education Advisory Committee. Lunch Petitioner is highly involved in the committee and she and Ventilation Woman (and Smart Restart) had been pushing APS to open the Virtual Program to anyone who wanted to switch to virtual! APS prevented an even larger disaster by not listening to them.

Hi pitiful online troll, you just move from thread to thread attacking the same parents. We're onto you. Really really sad life that you have.

[Anonymous]

The one thing APS did right was to open the virtual program to anyone who wanted it.

Parents in other places are desperate because they didn't have this option.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/fairfax-loudoun-county-public-schools-parents-virtual-learning-covid-cases-rising/65-ff87e1db-3d3f-4182-8745-7da7100d44d3?fbclid=IwAR1yCgVGlR_acJjiH3cfcaFxgvb1N6V8bg3XbqGX85Z2ZXQxKvzD1JP2qAg

[Anonymous]

Fairfax virtual program is limited to kids with medical conditions and they have the same problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax virtual program is limited to kids with medical conditions and they have the same problems.

Haven't heard anything like that about Fairfax, except they had some minor staffing issues. There's 1 open job for Fairfax's virtual program on its career webpage. APS has 42.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The one thing APS did right was to open the virtual program to anyone who wanted it.

Parents in other places are desperate because they didn't have this option.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/fairfax-loudoun-county-public-schools-parents-virtual-learning-covid-cases-rising/65-ff87e1db-3d3f-4182-8745-7da7100d44d3?fbclid=IwAR1yCgVGlR_acJjiH3cfcaFxgvb1N6V8bg3XbqGX85Z2ZXQxKvzD1JP2qAg

This thread is about how the VLP's staffing problems is causing critical issues for many of those kids' education, which staffing problems were caused by opening up the program to non-medically necessary kids. You're essentially saying - screw the medically necessary kids (presumably 0.2%, same as Fairfax), those handful of parents who don't follow the science that school is safe (remaining 2.8%) need to use it too.

For the parents who don't follow the science, they could have used VAVA or Virtual Virginia. Because of APS' decision to open up the virtual program, the medically necessary kids get the shaft.

[Anonymous]

This wouldn’t have happened if APS stuck with concurrent and kept the virtual kids in their schools like last
year but the Open Up Now parents lobbied against that. They really screwed over the virtual kids. Selfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This wouldn’t have happened if APS stuck with concurrent and kept the virtual kids in their schools like last
year but the Open Up Now parents lobbied against that. They really screwed over the virtual kids. Selfish.

Wth are you even talking about???? 97% of parents choose to send their kids to school in person! And you want to be pandered to bc you are hysterical. I am so thankful the law was passed so schools can stay open. Hopefully it will make APS think twice before shutting down.

Duran was afraid of white people not liking him so every. single. time. they came up with a crazy idea he did it no matter how detrimental. He should have said VV from the start and he should roll it back now to that. Drop the virtual school it is not going to work out. Plenty of virtual
options parents can select.

[Anonymous]

Bridget Loft is responsible for no new instruction in Spring 2020, the push for Ed tech/device usage in classrooms, and the entire VLP (an effort she wanted to push regardless of the pandemic to address overcrowding.

There should be some accountability for the travesty which is VLP. Ms. Loft is it.

APS better tie these two things together - virtual learning program is unwanted (only 3% chose it DURING A PANDEMIC) and almost impossible to manage (why every other district chose to offer Virtual Virginia).

Build a 4th high school to Address overcrowding. Move an option school to Tuckahoe or Nottingham to free up a seats in the south where we need them.

Also, TEACHERS didn’t want concurrent.

[Anonymous]

APS teacher here.
1) teachers weren’t asked if we wanted to continue concurrent or not. You are giving us far too much power.
2) SPED students in the virtual program’s case carriers are at their home school. The VLP SpEd teachers provide the services and take data. All IEP creation, updating, re-eval testing, meetings, etc are run by the in person case carrier (for students they don’t know, and in addition to their normal in person caseloads).

[Anonymous]

None of the school districts could pull off a fully virtual only program last year because of lack of staffing and somehow parents thought that there would be a functional virtual program this year with a far smaller group of people who were interested?

This sounds like exactly what most people thought would happen. There are not enough Teachers to teach in the regular classrooms. There was no way that there was going to be enough Teachers to teach virtually. Virtual Teaching is a totally different skill set then Teaching in person and not something that most Teachers are interested in doing.

I am not surprised that these programs are floundering from day one. I doubt that they will get any better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

So what? I have zero sympathy on this.
And if parents want to continue with it, drop the APS program and sign up for Virtual Virginia or some other online provider

I'm very opposed to the virtual program for all but those with certified medical reasons like what Fairfax did. However, I have a lot of sympathy for these virtual parents and especially the kids because they were expecting APS to provide them with virtual school. If APS couldn't staff it, that should have been communicated clearly in advance so they could make alternative plans. It's probably very late in the game to do Virtual Virginia.

A number of people on Arlington County Matters were discussing for weeks the large number of open virtual teaching positions. These problems were easy to foresee for those few people actually paying attention to local political issues.

APE Facebook page is honestly the best place to go for these type of discussions.

Only if you're against the VLP. APE wants to send all the medically vulnerable kids out of APS into VV. Screw the IEP kids, they don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bridget Loft is responsible for no new instruction in Spring 2020, the push for Ed tech/device usage in classrooms, and the entire VLP (an effort she wanted to push regardless of the pandemic to address overcrowding.

There should be some accountability for the travesty which is VLP. Ms. Loft is it.

APS better tie these two things together - virtual learning program is unwanted (only 3% chose it DURING A PANDEMIC) and almost impossible to manage (why every other district chose to offer Virtual Virginia).

Build a 4th high school to Address overcrowding. Move an option school to Tuckahoe or Nottingham to free up a seats in the south where we need them.

Also, TEACHERS didn’t want concurrent.

+1. She also totally underestimated the challenge of the youngest learners (K-3) accessing education through a device. Zero attention or thought. Even her recent School Board slides herald Dreambox as the solution for catching students up for their major losses in math. Total nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bridget Loft is responsible for no new instruction in Spring 2020, the push for Ed tech/device usage in classrooms, and the entire VLP (an effort she wanted to push regardless of the pandemic to address overcrowding.

There should be some accountability for the travesty which is VLP. Ms. Loft is it.

APS better tie these two things together - virtual learning program is unwanted (only 3% chose it DURING A PANDEMIC) and almost impossible to manage (why every other district chose to offer Virtual Virginia).

Build a 4th high school to Address overcrowding. Move an option school to Tuckahoe or Nottingham to free up a seats in the south where we need them.

Also, TEACHERS didn’t want concurrent.

+1000. PLEASE RUN FOR SCHOOL BOARD! I cannot believe people keep voting in these do-nothings to school board when APS has such serious problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

So what? I have zero sympathy on this.
And if parents want to continue with it, drop the APS program and sign up for Virtual Virginia or some other online provider

I'm very opposed to the virtual program for all but those with certified medical reasons like what Fairfax did. However, I have a lot of sympathy for these virtual parents and especially the kids because they were expecting APS to provide them with virtual school. If APS couldn't staff it, that should have been communicated clearly in advance so they could make alternative plans. It's probably very late in the game to do Virtual Virginia.

A number of people on Arlington County Matters were discussing for weeks the large number of open virtual teaching positions. These problems were easy to foresee for those few people actually paying attention to local political issues.

APE Facebook page is honestly the best place to go for these type of discussions.

Only if you're against the VLP. APE wants to send all the medically vulnerable kids out of APS into VV. Screw the IEP kids, they don't care.

Fake new. Stop making shit up.