Has Duran gone mad? (APS)

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Anonymous wrote:Parents are going to pull their kids. Don’t worry.

That doesn’t mean teachers don’t still have to go in. We do.

If you don't want to go in, quit your job.

I’m getting through to the end of the year so I don’t leave my students in a lurch but messages like this are why I’m not returning next year. I’m well aware now how worthless and disposable we are seen as being. I don’t believe in what I do anymore now that society’s true opinion of teachers has been revealed. What we do does not matter to most people. I get it now so I can leave the job and not miss it. And I am far from the only one who will leave.

Most of us parents don’t feel that way at all. Stop reading these message boards. I see the effort my DCs teacher puts in every single day. She is amazing and is doing the very best she can given the circumstances.

It is not just these message boards. It’s conveyed to us in policy. In what admin expects from us. In what the priorities are. It is crystal clear neither kids nor teachers actually matter. The system is broken. I hope some good teachers can stay because my kids have many years ahead of them in school but it is impossible to give to this job the way I always did when I believed any of it mattered. The school systems don’t care about these kids. They exploit the empathy and care teachers have for their students to claim the system on the whole cares but it does not. And it damn sure doesn’t care about the teachers- nor does anyone else. Go look in any thread that talks about how am education degree is a joke. It’s clear how little value anyone thinks we contribute to anything or anyone’s life. my main function is watching kids in a building. Not teaching them.

[Anonymous]

I vakuue my kids teachers. They are amazing. I wish they could continue to work from
Home til this is over. That is the safest thing. But I am not in the majority. I’m keeping my kids home. I think it’s awful to send teachers in. I wouldn’t go. Fortunately I can do my work remotely. So can teachers. Blame APE and all those parents who lost their minds at school board meetings carrying on.

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Anonymous wrote:Fortunately I can do my work remotely.

Ok, then...next.

[Anonymous]

The biggest APE supporter I know is a staunch republican lobbyist who lives in a multi million dollar home. She is pitching a fit about DL because, and I quote, her kids don’t like it. So teachers are risking their lives for people like her. I have learned a lot about my community through this. They are a bunch of privileged whiners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest APE supporter I know is a staunch republican lobbyist who lives in a multi million dollar home. She is pitching a fit about DL because, and I quote, her kids don’t like it. So teachers are risking their lives for people like her. I have learned a lot about my community through this. They are a bunch of privileged whiners.

Way to generalize. Also, way to whine yourself.

[Anonymous]

I was the pp that posted relax. I have believed all along that schools should have been closed and value teachers. I think APE are a bunch of whiny brats with little critical thinking. They believe that since Catholic schools are open here, so should APS (where most schools are at 105% capacity and a total of 228,000 APS students) as if they are remotely the same thing. I do think March may be safe for hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest APE supporter I know is a staunch republican lobbyist who lives in a multi million dollar home. She is pitching a fit about DL because, and I quote, her kids don’t like it. So teachers are risking their lives for people like her. I have learned a lot about my community through this. They are a bunch of privileged whiners.

The elementary schools with the highest percentage of hybrid rates (families that want their kids in school) are from the four most wealthy schools. Eye opening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest APE supporter I know is a staunch republican lobbyist who lives in a multi million dollar home. She is pitching a fit about DL because, and I quote, her kids don’t like it. So teachers are risking their lives for people like her. I have learned a lot about my community through this. They are a bunch of privileged whiners.

The elementary schools with the highest percentage of hybrid rates (families that want their kids in school) are from the four most wealthy schools. Eye opening.

Do you have a link? Not doubting you, just curious.

[Anonymous]

I believe it. my kids attend two of those wealthy schools at 70% and 75% each. We are in the DL minority. PTA meetings are fascinating. I don’t say a word since I don’t care what they do, my kids are staying home. I feel very badly for teachers though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I vakuue my kids teachers. They are amazing. I wish they could continue to work from
Home til this is over. That is the safest thing. But I am not in the majority. I’m keeping my kids home. I think it’s awful to send teachers in. I wouldn’t go. Fortunately I can do my work remotely. So can teachers. Blame APE and all those parents who lost their minds at school board meetings carrying on.

I actually think you might be in the majority and APE is a vocal minority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest APE supporter I know is a staunch republican lobbyist who lives in a multi million dollar home. She is pitching a fit about DL because, and I quote, her kids don’t like it. So teachers are risking their lives for people like her. I have learned a lot about my community through this. They are a bunch of privileged whiners.

+1000.

My kids don't really like distance learning either but that doesn't mean I'm joining APE or think schools should be open now. I don't. My kids are learning a lesson in how to deal with hard things, and we're getting through it. Maybe we can do hybrid in March or April. NOT NOW.

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Anonymous wrote:Dates for them all you think or just elementary? Are they purposely forcing people’s hands to decrease hybrid enrollment??

Yes I'm curious what the reactions of parents will be. ES parents chose hybrid/DL when the metrics APS proposed were way different than they are now. And even accepting the CDC metrics, things are not looking good.

Ohhhhhh welllllll. Blame the OPEN APS people. They’ve been intolerable screaming that kids don’t get it/it doesn’t spread in schools. School systems listened. Now it’s time to go in. They are entirely the reason your only shot at in person comes with choosing to send your kids in during the post holiday surge.

I DO blame APE bc there is no way I'm sending my kids into school this winter. Would have liked to have hybrid in the spring so thanks a lot APE.

I bet most of the APE'ers don't even send their own kids in because I know several who already put their kids in private school. And this makes me doubly bitter because their kids in private have testing and tents for lunch so they are safer but they're still insisting APS open in January without those things for MY kids. WTF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relax. APS is not going to go back at the height of a pandemic. But I’m sure they will announce intentions to start in February I’df certain metrics are met to shut APE up.

February is still going to be the height of the pandemic. I can't see numbers going down until March at the earliest and more likely April.

APE really f'ed things up for the rest of us if what y'all are saying is correct. I was hoping my kids could go back in the spring. Now they are going to be stuck in virtual all year - IF APS even lets us switch - because the APE crazies screamed and yelled.

[Anonymous]

So what is APS doing? Are they caving to APE?

Do they really think APE speaks for most parents?

Don't they know most of us don't want to send our kids back during this spike?

Or is APS counting on the fact that parents will bail on hybrid if they open during the spike and are actually ok with that because it gets the numbers down?

For teachers that elected to go in, how do you feel about going in in Jan/Feb?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. my kids attend two of those wealthy schools at 70% and 75% each. We are in the DL minority. PTA meetings are fascinating. I don’t say a word since I don’t care what they do, my kids are staying home. I feel very badly for teachers though.

Please enlighten us on what happens in your PTA meetings.