APS cancels Summer school for many previously qualified students due to lack of staffing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is summer school in Arlington just for strengthening now? They used to have these cutesy programs.

Do you mean like the ones they had over at ATS that were learning camps- global village? Those got cut from county budget

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this school system should be held up as a model for how well they have handled all this.

Lol. Can we be friends?

I just marvel at how ROBUST distance learning was.

Robust and EQUITABLE!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What did you all expect to happen? Harangue and harass teachers all year and this is what you get.

Oh let me fix that for you -
Telling teachers all year if they went to the classroom they were going to die! Telling teachers you don’t need to teach a person, it’s too risky even though you had the vaccine!, telling teachers oh but virtual is teaching and my kids loves virtual!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

You want to blame someone. - blame AEM and that silly Smart Restart bs and that nonsense ventilation lady! They harassed and harangued the Board, and scared Duran with threats of lawsuits and all kinds of craziness.

I don't even like SR, but c'mon. Both APE and SR harassed the board and Dr. Duran with their cherry-picked "scientific facts." Didn't APE even have a "medical subcommittee" that begged for a meeting with Daddy Duran?

Look, I'm here for the popcorn and to bash both groups equally. Our discourse is in the toilet because of both of them.

[Anonymous]

Summer school is offered in every district in VA per the governor ‘s recommendation. My nieces are getting an extended school year in NJ. Clearly, something is wrong here in Arlington. The problem is Duran. The school board needs to fire him. He has not delivered on a single promise this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is summer school in Arlington just for strengthening now? They used to have these cutesy programs.

Do you mean like the ones they had over at ATS that were learning camps- global village? Those got cut from county budget

Yes. That sucked.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this school system should be held up as a model for how well they have handled all this.

Lol. Can we be friends?

I just marvel at how ROBUST distance learning was.

Robust and EQUITABLE!!!

And yet...”things looked just a little bit different this year.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m getting dizzy with all the circling of the drain.

It’s a zombie system, bro.

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Anonymous wrote:What did you all expect to happen? Harangue and harass teachers all year and this is what you get.

+1,000,000

+1 million

Thanks, teacher haters.

It's more than just teacher hate from parents though. APS didn't do right by them either at any turn.

Correct. The parental whining and abuse and blame was bad enough but our districts let us take the fall. They KNEW they were the ones making all these decisions and putting requirements on us we didn’t even agree with but never did they stand up for us, publicly own the decisions, or offer support to us. Nope. Just constant obligations and standards and ridiculous policies all the way down. THAT is why they can’t staff anything. None of us want to do it. Not summer school, not curriculum writing, not any of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Summer school is offered in every district in VA per the governor ‘s recommendation. My nieces are getting an extended school year in NJ. Clearly, something is wrong here in Arlington. The problem is Duran. The school board needs to fire him. He has not delivered on a single promise this year.

But the governor doesn’t say what summer school has to look like. For many districts, it’s ESY for sped/EL as always, but simply online credit recovery opportunities otherwise. And that counts.

[Anonymous]

I bet other districts do the same thing. No one wants to work ESY or summer school this year. They’ll probably find enough warm bodies for ESY but anything else is a crapshoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet other districts do the same thing. No one wants to work ESY or summer school this year. They’ll probably find enough warm bodies for ESY but anything else is a crapshoot.

I think this will be the case. Loudoun had to double their pay (it was low to start) they may get enough teachers but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:*goes to email, comes back*

Our family was selected for summer school previously. I'm still unclear after reading it who is still qualified for it.

What a mess. APS couldn't do right for our children this year. Makes me wonder about next, and if I should take door #2: private school

EL 1’s and 2’s (newcomers)
IEP students who qualify for ESY: that is, in your IEP it provides for summer school because you have critical life skills as your goals and the team determines summer services are necessary to address them. If unsure, check your IEP under the “ESY” page. It would be detailed there.

Originally all students with IEP’s were eligible regardless of academic need. For example a student who has speech services only for articulation would get to attend the reading and math strengthening program even if on or above grade level.

As a parent of a child with a language disorder, you aren't getting speech services for articulation.

As a parent of a child with an IEP for articulation issues, yes, you sure can. Intelligibility is an issue if a child cannot articulate and clearly communicate with their teachers or peers.

[Anonymous]

I’m an APS parent and Sped teacher. My kid has gotten articulation services for the last 3 years with an IEP. Never summer services but did get offered summer school this year because all students with ieps were offered it. I declined prior to this announcement because he’s on grade level and doesn’t need academic strengthening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS parent and Sped teacher. My kid has gotten articulation services for the last 3 years with an IEP. Never summer services but did get offered summer school this year because all students with ieps were offered it. I declined prior to this announcement because he’s on grade level and doesn’t need academic strengthening.

I'm the pp with a kid with an articulation IEP. My child has been testing just below grade level all year long. We hired a tutor to work with our child starting last summer. I had signed my child up for summer school, because they would obviously benefit from additional academic strengthening. I'm so sad to lose that opportunity and wildly frustrated that we have to keep spending our money (which is a privilege not every family is able to take advantage of) to make up for the shortfalls and mismanagement of APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok now that we’ve talked wages, can someone tell me how much APS teachers make? Obviously it changes by step increases. Thanks.

This comes up all the time- salary scales are published but the scales increase by steps and since 2009 there have been 4-5 year where there were no step increases so you can’t say teacher x has been teaching 15 year so they make this much. People like to say teachers are paid well in this APS and the pay scale may seem that way on paper but pay is not comparable to many non teaching jobs with similar levels of education and experience.