APS - School Shifts in the Fall?

[Anonymous]

why do all these posts even matter if Duran promises full-time, in-person learning with live teachers in the fall??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why do all these posts even matter if Duran promises full-time, in-person learning with live teachers in the fall??

Because that’s what MT is running on. Nothing else. So they have to convince the voters that Duran is an incompetent lazy liar, and only MT can save our kids and make sure they have those 5 days of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why do all these posts even matter if Duran promises full-time, in-person learning with live teachers in the fall??

We were also promised hybrid learning starting last September. That obviously didn’t happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why do all these posts even matter if Duran promises full-time, in-person learning with live teachers in the fall??

Because that’s what MT is running on. Nothing else. So they have to convince the voters that Duran is an incompetent lazy liar, and only MT can save our kids and make sure they have those 5 days of school.

Exactly. It’s getting extra attention right now from MT (and the GOP) because they want to use it as a wedge issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why do all these posts even matter if Duran promises full-time, in-person learning with live teachers in the fall??

We were also promised hybrid learning starting last September. That obviously didn’t happen.

You were promised? I must have missed that. They asked parents to declare preferences, but I never remember being promised anything, and given the nature of the pandemic, especially pre-vaccines, I didn’t expect plans to be set in stone. Why did you? Hindsight is 20/20, and it’s pretty easy to be a Monday morning QB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why do all these posts even matter if Duran promises full-time, in-person learning with live teachers in the fall??

Because that’s what MT is running on. Nothing else. So they have to convince the voters that Duran is an incompetent lazy liar, and only MT can save our kids and make sure they have those 5 days of school.

Well regardless of who I'm voting for, I do believe Duran is incompetent and lazy. He's way overpaid for what he's delivered on.

[Anonymous]

Mary Kadera was president of the McKinley PTA during the last boundary process when she had a kid at McK (that got heated from what I heard). She's VP of CCPTA now.

Miranda Turner is on the steering committee of APE and she was active in the elementary boundary process around Drew (this got heated too), although I'm not sure why because her kids don't go to Drew. One is in private, one is in Montessori. I wonder what the dynamic is/was with her white wealthy two lawyer family as one of the gentrifiers in Green Valley who doesn't even send her kids to the neighborhood school.

I would like to hear more about all of these things.

I guess we'll know more about Mary when APE releases their FOIA. Maybe someone should FOIA MT's emails. Just sayin'.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that the most support for open schools now movement is in the wealthiest areas of NA........Mostly overprivileged families who have both parents at home, no hardships, multiple cars & giant houses. Send your kids to private school (which some have, including MT) if you despise APS so much. Better yet, Fairfax county has much more space in all senses than Arlington.

[Anonymous]

I love how people are positioning open schools as a Republican conspiracy. Are you for real?

[Anonymous]

That’s right. They’ll vote for someone who has no kids in APS, that sounds logical!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the most support for open schools now movement is in the wealthiest areas of NA........Mostly overprivileged families who have both parents at home, no hardships, multiple cars & giant houses. Send your kids to private school (which some have, including MT) if you despise APS so much. Better yet, Fairfax county has much more space in all senses than Arlington.

OMG Just stop with the privileged BS. That attack is exhausting and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love how people are positioning open schools as a Republican conspiracy. Are you for real?

The GOP is certainly clinging to it as a wedge issue. Isn’t that well known?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the most support for open schools now movement is in the wealthiest areas of NA........Mostly overprivileged families who have both parents at home, no hardships, multiple cars & giant houses. Send your kids to private school (which some have, including MT) if you despise APS so much. Better yet, Fairfax county has much more space in all senses than Arlington.

OMG Just stop with the privileged BS. That attack is exhausting and pathetic.

But...not wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mary Kadera was president of the McKinley PTA during the last boundary process when she had a kid at McK (that got heated from what I heard). She's VP of CCPTA now.

Miranda Turner is on the steering committee of APE and she was active in the elementary boundary process around Drew (this got heated too), although I'm not sure why because her kids don't go to Drew. One is in private, one is in Montessori. I wonder what the dynamic is/was with her white wealthy two lawyer family as one of the gentrifiers in Green Valley who doesn't even send her kids to the neighborhood school.

I would like to hear more about all of these things.

I guess we'll know more about Mary when APE releases their FOIA. Maybe someone should FOIA MT's emails. Just sayin'.

ugh, I am so over this stupid thread, but I can't not comment on this. Miranda had a child who attended Drew and was (is?) active in the Drew PTA. She withdrew her child because APS did not provide meaningful in-person instruction this year. She has been open about doing this, because it was best for her child. She is fighting for other children whose parents did not have the opportunity her child did. And she has said her child wants to go back to Drew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that the most support for open schools now movement is in the wealthiest areas of NA........Mostly overprivileged families who have both parents at home, no hardships, multiple cars & giant houses. Send your kids to private school (which some have, including MT) if you despise APS so much. Better yet, Fairfax county has much more space in all senses than Arlington.

OMG Just stop with the privileged BS. That attack is exhausting and pathetic.

But...not wrong.

OK then.. You are saying that across the country, every county that has parents fighting for their kids to be in-school is made up of privilege white people?? Get a clue.