Is this the end of parents in schools (ACPS)?

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Anonymous wrote:I've been reading all the posts. Frankly, I don't want any of you in the school building while my kid is there. You all sound off your rockers. You are more interested in your own self-interest than you are about the safety, health and physical, of the children in the schools.

After hours? Have at it. While students are in the building? Nope, there is no reason for you to be there.

If you want to attend your child's "graduation" from kindergarten or fifth grade or eighth grade, then those ceremonies can be held after school when other students are not in the building. The high school graduation is already off campus so that is not germane to this discussion.

What danger is there to students if a small groups of masked new-to-school parents are shown around the premises? For goodness' sake.

It is a public school. You don't get to shop. If you want to shop, then you go to private. Otherwise, wait until summer when there are no kids there and THEN get the tour.

Nonsense. I can say definitively that at one point prospective parents were allowed to tour ACPS schools while school was in session. So the idea that this is somehow outrageous speaks both to how far people are willing to lower their standards to justify this district's chaos and how delusional people are in thinking even the most basic requests are outside the norm.

Teachers, admin, and staff don’t want you there are the time. Is that really hard to understand? COVID finally gave schools the power to set new ground rules.

Was that supposed to be “all the time”? Sorry, that was really hard to understand.

The teachers and staff at my ACPS school didn’t seem to mind the free help I and others gave when they asked for it: tutoring, shelving books in the library, helping with K science. And I was glad to do it.

And somehow you preserved, good job! (It wasn’t that hard.)

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Anonymous wrote:Parents should NOT be allowed in the building during Covid. It adds another health of threat to kids and teachers. I think the number of outsiders, non-school staff or visitors, should be very limited and virtually non-existent. There is no reason why a parent needs to be in the building for an IEP or a parent-teacher conference. There also is no reason for a parent to be in the building during the school day while other kids and school staff are there.

Thank you for being the one voice of reason on this threat. Agree 100% - some of these people need to relax. You are not entitled to waltz into the school for anything you want.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been reading all the posts. Frankly, I don't want any of you in the school building while my kid is there. You all sound off your rockers. You are more interested in your own self-interest than you are about the safety, health and physical, of the children in the schools.

After hours? Have at it. While students are in the building? Nope, there is no reason for you to be there.

If you want to attend your child's "graduation" from kindergarten or fifth grade or eighth grade, then those ceremonies can be held after school when other students are not in the building. The high school graduation is already off campus so that is not germane to this discussion.

What danger is there to students if a small groups of masked new-to-school parents are shown around the premises? For goodness' sake.

It is a public school. You don't get to shop. If you want to shop, then you go to private. Otherwise, wait until summer when there are no kids there and THEN get the tour.

Nonsense. I can say definitively that at one point prospective parents were allowed to tour ACPS schools while school was in session. So the idea that this is somehow outrageous speaks both to how far people are willing to lower their standards to justify this district's chaos and how delusional people are in thinking even the most basic requests are outside the norm.

Teachers, admin, and staff don’t want you there are the time. Is that really hard to understand? COVID finally gave schools the power to set new ground rules.

Was that supposed to be “all the time”? Sorry, that was really hard to understand.

The teachers and staff at my ACPS school didn’t seem to mind the free help I and others gave when they asked for it: tutoring, shelving books in the library, helping with K science. And I was glad to do it.

And somehow you preserved, good job! (It wasn’t that hard.)

This would have landed better if you’d spelled “persevered” correctly.

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And do what, be disruptive? Why do you need to be there besides for parent pick-up, conferences, PTA, and events you were invited to?

Oh gee IDK to SEE THE FACILITIES our kids will be learning in? How daft are you?

See the facilities? It’s a bunch of rooms with desks and chairs, then they show you the gymnasium and cafeteria. Use your imagination, it’ll look like that.

Parents like you are the reason ACPS continues to fail its students. "Everything is OK!" having no f-ing clue what's really going on.

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So? Who cares?

Superintendent’s children got theirs and attended school in person. So did every one of your political betters.

Fire the school board for not firing him. Anything short of that is consent.

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Move to Loudoun. No restrictions on anything.

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We have actually moved to private, but found the same thing. My impression is that once schools saw how much easier everything was without parents, they are in no hurry to have them back in. Now it's any excuse at all to keep people out of the school. I don't think we'll ever go back to when we could actually see inside the schools and be a part of our chidren's lives in that way. It's sad and not good for our kids.