Pleasantly surprised by Duran's proposed budget

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused over why pushing for better ventilation and filtration is bad. I don’t believe kids should wear masks. I always believed the mask mandate should be rescinded once the vaccine becomes available. I am also against preschoolers being masked. That being said I’ve always been for improving ventilation and filtration.

parts of the old aTS new Key have classrooms that need new systems. I think APS needs to evaluate that without covid consideration and not do sweeping changes like vent lady likes.

Also, that flat enrollment is BS. Obvs we have multi fam housing coming on but also, some people who went to private schools will come back when things normalize.

That said, if the teachers are happy with the budget, so am I. Happy teachers = happy students.

I think the long term enrollment projections are off but fine for next year. I don’t think we should get too bogged down for a budget process that happens every year. Keeping the schools staffed is very important right now!

Haha, kicking the enrollment can down the road. Classic APS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused over why pushing for better ventilation and filtration is bad. I don’t believe kids should wear masks. I always believed the mask mandate should be rescinded once the vaccine becomes available. I am also against preschoolers being masked. That being said I’ve always been for improving ventilation and filtration.

Do you post daily 10000 word diatribes on the subject?[/quote

The anger against "ventilation lady" confuses me too I'm not really sure who she is and haven't read her posts, but the vitriol against here on DCUM is disconcerting. Air quality was a problem before COVID. COVID made us all more aware of air quality and what can be done to improve inside air quality. We live in a pretty urban environment. Lots of kids have asthma, and even those who don't would benefit from cleaner air. Since when has asking politely one time for a change ever resulted in that change? I applaud her keeping the issue of air quality on everyone's radar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused over why pushing for better ventilation and filtration is bad. I don’t believe kids should wear masks. I always believed the mask mandate should be rescinded once the vaccine becomes available. I am also against preschoolers being masked. That being said I’ve always been for improving ventilation and filtration.

Do you post daily 10000 word diatribes on the subject?[/quote

The anger against "ventilation lady" confuses me too I'm not really sure who she is and haven't read her posts, but the vitriol against here on DCUM is disconcerting. Air quality was a problem before COVID. COVID made us all more aware of air quality and what can be done to improve inside air quality. We live in a pretty urban environment. Lots of kids have asthma, and even those who don't would benefit from cleaner air. Since when has asking politely one time for a change ever resulted in that change? I applaud her keeping the issue of air quality on everyone's radar.

It’s the singular focus and the lack of ability to let any good news have a moment before she starts beating the drum.

[Anonymous]

vent lady is over the top and a-scientific but makes herself sound like a scientist. She's an artist. She runs her own art company, from home.At first I politely corrected her interpretation of science (I'm a scientist and did this privately) but she wouldn't correct her misinformation so I gave up.

She take away teacher pay and increase class sizes so every classroom in APS had very expensive stuff and most of it, we don't need.

She's not concerned with pre-covid information but may start to use it to quell her anxiety.

[Anonymous]

^^ in mental health, we often try to control other things when we can't control our life. Think of her fixation like some are fixated on food, it makes more sense that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:vent lady is over the top and a-scientific but makes herself sound like a scientist. She's an artist. She runs her own art company, from home.At first I politely corrected her interpretation of science (I'm a scientist and did this privately) but she wouldn't correct her misinformation so I gave up.

She take away teacher pay and increase class sizes so every classroom in APS had very expensive stuff and most of it, we don't need.

She's not concerned with pre-covid information but may start to use it to quell her anxiety.

The funny thing is that the budget actually does include some ventilation/filter items.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ in mental health, we often try to control other things when we can't control our life. Think of her fixation like some are fixated on food, it makes more sense that way.

And the fixation on “ventilation lady”.

Stalkers aren’t healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused over why pushing for better ventilation and filtration is bad. I don’t believe kids should wear masks. I always believed the mask mandate should be rescinded once the vaccine becomes available. I am also against preschoolers being masked. That being said I’ve always been for improving ventilation and filtration.

parts of the old aTS new Key have classrooms that need new systems. I think APS needs to evaluate that without covid consideration and not do sweeping changes like vent lady likes.

Also, that flat enrollment is BS. Obvs we have multi fam housing coming on but also, some people who went to private schools will come back when things normalize.

That said, if the teachers are happy with the budget, so am I. Happy teachers = happy students.

I think the long term enrollment projections are off but fine for next year. I don’t think we should get too bogged down for a budget process that happens every year. Keeping the schools staffed is very important right now!

Haha, kicking the enrollment can down the road. Classic APS.

I haven’t read the budget but it sounds like it does account for future growth in some way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:vent lady is over the top and a-scientific but makes herself sound like a scientist. She's an artist. She runs her own art company, from home.At first I politely corrected her interpretation of science (I'm a scientist and did this privately) but she wouldn't correct her misinformation so I gave up.

She take away teacher pay and increase class sizes so every classroom in APS had very expensive stuff and most of it, we don't need.

She's not concerned with pre-covid information but may start to use it to quell her anxiety.

That is the problem except most people don't know that and blindly follow along with what she is saying. She is a scientist of the internet and has no actually real education or hands on work experience. There is reasonable way for her to have any true or practical knowledge of air filtration and ventilation in commercial spaces.

And then because she has no real knowledge, anything that is labeled "superior" is what she thinks is needed. It doesn't matter what technology systems, hardware, equipment and type of building must be used with this superior equipment she just sees the label and says that is what is needed.

Our kid is at Wakefield. Apparently there are some classrooms where opening the windows is either a hassle or won't open. In terms of ventilation and air quality, it is likely that just being able to open a window would offer way more improvement.