APS VPL is a dumpster fire

[Anonymous]

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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.

We still have a school board? I thought they evaporated when Duran came on board.

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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.

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.

Not fake at all. The APE's kept pressing APS to not have a virtual program and send anyone who wants virtual out of the district into Virtual Virginia. They still are. And APE wants to defund the APS virtual program and keep all the money for their own in person snowflakes. Screw the vulnerable kids, APE don't care.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s because APS is too full of chiefs. I’m an in-person teacher and I’ve had the worst start to school ever. There’s the Chief Officer of This, and the Director of That, Supervisor of the World, but none of them help me get anything done, my classes are huge, and they don’t work with kids. How about ONE head of each BS area, and you hire two teachers for each director or supervisor taking up space.

+1000

So true! And they just make work for schools. We teachers get no support yet seems like every week they add more chiefs!

There's quite a few of new ones this school years. The silver lining is that they took a number of Loft's duties.

After this virtual learning dumpster fire, Loft should go. Promote Kim Graves to that role ASAP!

Yes, love Kim Graves!! Support her moving up the chain 1000%!

[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.

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.

Not fake at all. The APE's kept pressing APS to not have a virtual program and send anyone who wants virtual out of the district into Virtual Virginia. They still are. And APE wants to defund the APS virtual program and keep all the money for their own in person snowflakes. Screw the vulnerable kids, APE don't care.

I don't think you know the meaning of "snowflake". These "in person snowflakes" are 97% of the students. APS is spending OVER HALF of your recovery budget on 3% of the kids (most of whom are NOT vulnerable). If the non-vulnerable were taken out of virtual learning, then maybe there would be more resources available for those who truly need it. Your blame and anger is misplaced.

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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.

Not fake at all. The APE's kept pressing APS to not have a virtual program and send anyone who wants virtual out of the district into Virtual Virginia. They still are. And APE wants to defund the APS virtual program and keep all the money for their own in person snowflakes. Screw the vulnerable kids, APE don't care.

I don't think you know the meaning of "snowflake". These "in person snowflakes" are 97% of the students. APS is spending OVER HALF of your recovery budget on 3% of the kids (most of whom are NOT vulnerable). If the non-vulnerable were taken out of virtual learning, then maybe there would be more resources available for those who truly need it. Your blame and anger is misplaced.

Yes, here it is. Clearly not fake news. The APEs want to shut down virtual and give all the $ to their own kids.

[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.

We’ll if their parents weren’t lunatics they would be altering an education. In person. Selfish parents. Not talking about the medically necessary.

[Anonymous]

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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.

We’ll if their parents weren’t lunatics they would be altering an education. In person. Selfish parents. Not talking about the medically necessary.

I am not sure what you are trying to say. Are you really saying that the parents who chose virtual for their families are lunatics? So much for APE saying they just wanted choice. Now APE attacks anyone who doesn't choose the same thing they want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

We’ll if their parents weren’t lunatics they would be altering an education. In person. Selfish parents. Not talking about the medically necessary.

I am not sure what you are trying to say. Are you really saying that the parents who chose virtual for their families are lunatics? So much for APE saying they just wanted choice. Now APE attacks anyone who doesn't choose the same thing they want.

The APEs are just hateful trolls who jump on every post with the same tired attacks. They don't have anything useful to say.

We can soon look forward to hearing them scream at the poor Board members when the meetings start up again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

We’ll if their parents weren’t lunatics they would be altering an education. In person. Selfish parents. Not talking about the medically necessary.

I am not sure what you are trying to say. Are you really saying that the parents who chose virtual for their families are lunatics? So much for APE saying they just wanted choice. Now APE attacks anyone who doesn't choose the same thing they want.

So everyone who disagrees with the virtual program is now APE? APS is the only district that opened virtual up to students w/o any medical reason and it's failing miserably at provided such services, which means those who truly NEED to be virtual are suffering the consequences.

[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.

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.

Not fake at all. The APE's kept pressing APS to not have a virtual program and send anyone who wants virtual out of the district into Virtual Virginia. They still are. And APE wants to defund the APS virtual program and keep all the money for their own in person snowflakes. Screw the vulnerable kids, APE don't care.

Virtual Virginia is an established program with a track record of successfully teaching kids virtually. It's not crazy to think that is a better option for kids who need to be virtual than the dumpster fire that is VPL. APS could have found other ways to keep those kids connected to their school community.

There are plenty of vulnerable kids who are in person and who could have really used those funds for more supports. Meanwhile the money is being spent on subs for VPL students which certainly isnt a great result for anyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Not fake at all. The APE's kept pressing APS to not have a virtual program and send anyone who wants virtual out of the district into Virtual Virginia. They still are. And APE wants to defund the APS virtual program and keep all the money for their own in person snowflakes. Screw the vulnerable kids, APE don't care.

Virtual Virginia is an established program with a track record of successfully teaching kids virtually. It's not crazy to think that is a better option for kids who need to be virtual than the dumpster fire that is VPL. APS could have found other ways to keep those kids connected to their school community.

There are plenty of vulnerable kids who are in person and who could have really used those funds for more supports. Meanwhile the money is being spent on subs for VPL students which certainly isnt a great result for anyone.

That should say VPL substitutes, not VPL students. Who wants to start the year with a sub?

[Anonymous]

I’m of the opinion that APS should have directed virtual students to VV to begin with, but no one should be ok with them not appropriately delivering on their promise of virtual schooling. This is an APS failure, not failure of the families that chose their virtual offering.

Unless you’re ok with abject failure from our school system, you should not be shrugging your shoulders over this or blaming “crazy parents”. Crazy parents aren’t the decision makers here.

Bad decisions. Hold APS accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m of the opinion that APS should have directed virtual students to VV to begin with, but no one should be ok with them not appropriately delivering on their promise of virtual schooling. This is an APS failure, not failure of the families that chose their virtual offering.

Unless you’re ok with abject failure from our school system, you should not be shrugging your shoulders over this or blaming “crazy parents”. Crazy parents aren’t the decision makers here.

Bad decisions. Hold APS accountable.

THIS! Duran, Loft, School Board ... all should be held accountable.

[Anonymous]

Ms. Loft and her decisions are horrible. She is a former HS principal. How does this qualify her to oversee curriculum for pr-k (VPI) through 12?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m of the opinion that APS should have directed virtual students to VV to begin with, but no one should be ok with them not appropriately delivering on their promise of virtual schooling. This is an APS failure, not failure of the families that chose their virtual offering.

Unless you’re ok with abject failure from our school system, you should not be shrugging your shoulders over this or blaming “crazy parents”. Crazy parents aren’t the decision makers here.

Bad decisions. Hold APS accountable.

THIS! Duran, Loft, School Board ... all should be held accountable.

Yes! The instinct to not hold school board or APS accountable is appalling. I very much hope to see a serious discussion about this at the next school board meeting. I could NOT believe the short shrift that Loft gave to the very concerning disparities in SOL results.