ACPS outdoor recess, indoor lunch/gym?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:that is really not equitable.

Ask them about it the next time you're in a meeting in which they talk about equity. Unless you can afford to live in South Old Town, you're sh*t out of luck.

Please don’t because the ACPS thing to do is to deprive this subgroup of students of an educational approach that works in the name of equity (and even though Lyles Crouch is almost 46 percent non white - https://www.acps.k12.va.us/domain/977 and probably there is a large white student group within the school boundaries that are in private school).

OK, but what's the FARMS rate? VDOE classifies only ~20% of the school's student population as economically disadvantaged. And what about the "subgroups" at every OTHER elementary school--aren't they also entitled to this educational approach that works? Why not implement this curriculum district-wide in the name of equity?

That’s not the ACPS way. It’s make the experience bad for all, not make the experience better for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:that is really not equitable.

Ask them about it the next time you're in a meeting in which they talk about equity. Unless you can afford to live in South Old Town, you're sh*t out of luck.

Please don’t because the ACPS thing to do is to deprive this subgroup of students of an educational approach that works in the name of equity (and even though Lyles Crouch is almost 46 percent non white - https://www.acps.k12.va.us/domain/977 and probably there is a large white student group within the school boundaries that are in private school).

OK, but what's the FARMS rate? VDOE classifies only ~20% of the school's student population as economically disadvantaged. And what about the "subgroups" at every OTHER elementary school--aren't they also entitled to this educational approach that works? Why not implement this curriculum district-wide in the name of equity?

That’s not the ACPS way. It’s make these experience bad for all, not make the experience better for all.

Exactly. If you were dealing with rationale people, of course you would consider the approach used by Lyles Crouch across the city. I wasn’t suggesting it should necessarily limited to Lyles Crouch. The problem is that ACPS’s knee jerk approach to applying its “equity” focus is to take something away (or not allow something) if it cannot be provided immediately to everyone regardless of what harm such deprivation causes. That approach leads to teachers not being allowed to let students in classrooms look at hard copy books in their classroom or individual schools not trying to find outdoor lunch solutions to mitigate covid risk.

[Anonymous]

There are no hard copy books in classrooms?

Maybe that's why my kid says all he does is look at powerpoints and other stuff on his ipad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are no hard copy books in classrooms?

Maybe that's why my kid says all he does is look at powerpoints and other stuff on his ipad.

Sorry I was writing a bit in short hand. There are hard copy books in classrooms. It is my understanding that last year during hybrid, students in the classroom were prohibited from looking at them based on equity concerns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are no hard copy books in classrooms?

Maybe that's why my kid says all he does is look at powerpoints and other stuff on his ipad.

Sorry I was writing a bit in short hand. There are hard copy books in classrooms. It is my understanding that last year during hybrid, students in the classroom were prohibited from looking at them based on equity concerns.[/quote]

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