Has Duran gone mad? (APS)

[Anonymous]

Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington??

Waste of time to explain the difference between privates and publics for the hundredth time. Try the search function.

Neighboring public school districts are also mostly virtual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington??

Waste of time to explain the difference between privates and publics for the hundredth time. Try the search function.

Neighboring public school districts are also mostly virtual.

I’ve come to view the “why can daycare and private schools do it” question IN JANUARY 2021 similar to when kids email and say “what can I do to bring up my grade” or “what do I have missing.” They know. They have been told repeatedly. There’s no answer beyond what they’ve already been given. But they ask anyway as if some magical less inconvenient answer will appear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington??

Waste of time to explain the difference between privates and publics for the hundredth time. Try the search function.

Neighboring public school districts are also mostly virtual.

I’ve come to view the “why can daycare and private schools do it” question IN JANUARY 2021 similar to when kids email and say “what can I do to bring up my grade” or “what do I have missing.” They know. They have been told repeatedly. There’s no answer beyond what they’ve already been given. But they ask anyway as if some magical less inconvenient answer will appear.

+1

[Anonymous]

Public schools have also been open.. I see the difference that private schools are smaller and have more funding to put proper safety measures in place. Daycares and preschools, on the other hand, are the complete opposite, working with younger children and really no social distancing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington??

Waste of time to explain the difference between privates and publics for the hundredth time. Try the search function.

Neighboring public school districts are also mostly virtual.

I’ve come to view the “why can daycare and private schools do it” question IN JANUARY 2021 similar to when kids email and say “what can I do to bring up my grade” or “what do I have missing.” They know. They have been told repeatedly. There’s no answer beyond what they’ve already been given. But they ask anyway as if some magical less inconvenient answer will appear.

We know the reasons. That doesn’t make it acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public schools have also been open.. I see the difference that private schools are smaller and have more funding to put proper safety measures in place. Daycares and preschools, on the other hand, are the complete opposite, working with younger children and really no social distancing.

This. Local daycares and preschools haven’t done costly HVAC upgrades. And most don’t have outdoor lunch or real social distancing either. Because 2 and 3 year olds don’t effectively social distance. It’s hilarious that people lump daycares in with private schools as places that have extra funding to deal with these issues. I’m guessing all the people saying it’s different for daycares and preschools because they are “private” schools are SAHMs who never actually had their kids in daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington??

Waste of time to explain the difference between privates and publics for the hundredth time. Try the search function.

Neighboring public school districts are also mostly virtual.

Using your logic that explains why Fairfax county might make choices for virtual. Large county and all

But Arlington is not and some similarly sized counties like Stanford, Prince William and Loudoun have figured out how.

[Anonymous]

AEA’s ultimate position is that there should be no in-person learning until the pandemic is declared fully over, even if that’s through next school year and beyond. They dress it up with a bunch of conditions that would need to be met, but every time APS approaches those goals, they just shift their position. This isn’t surprising, because AEA isn’t an education association, it’s an unofficial teachers union, so students and education aren’t their priority, the teachers are. This is also why AEA (like APE) doesn’t get to set the agenda, because they’re only looking out for one set of stakeholders and disregard the rest. Duran’s job is to balance the needs of all of the stakeholders, which means we’re going to end up with a compromise position that isn’t what anyone wants. The compromise is gong to happen regardless of how loud people scream, so the various groups can either accept that and take a seat at the table to help guide what it will look like, or they can be left out of the discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AEA’s ultimate position is that there should be no in-person learning until the pandemic is declared fully over, even if that’s through next school year and beyond. They dress it up with a bunch of conditions that would need to be met, but every time APS approaches those goals, they just shift their position. This isn’t surprising, because AEA isn’t an education association, it’s an unofficial teachers union, so students and education aren’t their priority, the teachers are. This is also why AEA (like APE) doesn’t get to set the agenda, because they’re only looking out for one set of stakeholders and disregard the rest. Duran’s job is to balance the needs of all of the stakeholders, which means we’re going to end up with a compromise position that isn’t what anyone wants. The compromise is gong to happen regardless of how loud people scream, so the various groups can either accept that and take a seat at the table to help guide what it will look like, or they can be left out of the discussion.

What are these "goals"? And how on earth has APS approached any "goal"??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please tell me why APS is having a harder time with re-opening compared to all our neighbors and daycares/private schools? Why is it less safe for Arlington??

Waste of time to explain the difference between privates and publics for the hundredth time. Try the search function.

Neighboring public school districts are also mostly virtual.

I’ve come to view the “why can daycare and private schools do it” question IN JANUARY 2021 similar to when kids email and say “what can I do to bring up my grade” or “what do I have missing.” They know. They have been told repeatedly. There’s no answer beyond what they’ve already been given. But they ask anyway as if some magical less inconvenient answer will appear.

We know the reasons. That doesn’t make it acceptable.

Oh I didn’t realize covid asked for your approval on what was acceptable . I didn’t get that questionnaire

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AEA’s ultimate position is that there should be no in-person learning until the pandemic is declared fully over, even if that’s through next school year and beyond. They dress it up with a bunch of conditions that would need to be met, but every time APS approaches those goals, they just shift their position. This isn’t surprising, because AEA isn’t an education association, it’s an unofficial teachers union, so students and education aren’t their priority, the teachers are. This is also why AEA (like APE) doesn’t get to set the agenda, because they’re only looking out for one set of stakeholders and disregard the rest. Duran’s job is to balance the needs of all of the stakeholders, which means we’re going to end up with a compromise position that isn’t what anyone wants. The compromise is gong to happen regardless of how loud people scream, so the various groups can either accept that and take a seat at the table to help guide what it will look like, or they can be left out of the discussion.

What are these "goals"? And how on earth has APS approached any "goal"??

Educate yourself and then we can discuss. I am not your research monkey and I’m not going to waste my time feeding you information just so you can scream the more socially appropriate version of “fake news.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AEA’s ultimate position is that there should be no in-person learning until the pandemic is declared fully over, even if that’s through next school year and beyond. They dress it up with a bunch of conditions that would need to be met, but every time APS approaches those goals, they just shift their position. This isn’t surprising, because AEA isn’t an education association, it’s an unofficial teachers union, so students and education aren’t their priority, the teachers are. This is also why AEA (like APE) doesn’t get to set the agenda, because they’re only looking out for one set of stakeholders and disregard the rest. Duran’s job is to balance the needs of all of the stakeholders, which means we’re going to end up with a compromise position that isn’t what anyone wants. The compromise is gong to happen regardless of how loud people scream, so the various groups can either accept that and take a seat at the table to help guide what it will look like, or they can be left out of the discussion.

Interesting.. not trying to be snarky, but at the end of the day, who is the taxpayer here? There is a certain responsibility to the taxpayers of the County that should take precedent. Otherwise, I see a series of lawsuits being filed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:AEA’s ultimate position is that there should be no in-person learning until the pandemic is declared fully over, even if that’s through next school year and beyond. They dress it up with a bunch of conditions that would need to be met, but every time APS approaches those goals, they just shift their position. This isn’t surprising, because AEA isn’t an education association, it’s an unofficial teachers union, so students and education aren’t their priority, the teachers are. This is also why AEA (like APE) doesn’t get to set the agenda, because they’re only looking out for one set of stakeholders and disregard the rest. Duran’s job is to balance the needs of all of the stakeholders, which means we’re going to end up with a compromise position that isn’t what anyone wants. The compromise is gong to happen regardless of how loud people scream, so the various groups can either accept that and take a seat at the table to help guide what it will look like, or they can be left out of the discussion.

Interesting.. not trying to be snarky, but at the end of the day, who is the taxpayer here? There is a certain responsibility to the taxpayers of the County that should take precedent. Otherwise, I see a series of lawsuits being filed.

Taxpayers are not shareholders, and you can’t think of APS the same as a private corporation. Taxpayers are not the only priority. I support rolling out hybrid, but yours is a fundamentally incorrect question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AEA’s ultimate position is that there should be no in-person learning until the pandemic is declared fully over, even if that’s through next school year and beyond. They dress it up with a bunch of conditions that would need to be met, but every time APS approaches those goals, they just shift their position. This isn’t surprising, because AEA isn’t an education association, it’s an unofficial teachers union, so students and education aren’t their priority, the teachers are. This is also why AEA (like APE) doesn’t get to set the agenda, because they’re only looking out for one set of stakeholders and disregard the rest. Duran’s job is to balance the needs of all of the stakeholders, which means we’re going to end up with a compromise position that isn’t what anyone wants. The compromise is gong to happen regardless of how loud people scream, so the various groups can either accept that and take a seat at the table to help guide what it will look like, or they can be left out of the discussion.

Is this for real? Imagine if every county in the country had such insane demands.