APS: Open Now group (APE) fundraising for new signs for 5 day a week school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a waste of time and money. I cannot imagine schools wouldn’t be fully open by then, but if they are or they’re not, it’s because of health metrics and not them.

Yes, and this time last year people couldn’t imagine schools not at least opening on a hybrid basis this past fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Why do you want to keep kids out of the classroom?
If you are a teacher with a health issue, you are DL-ing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a waste of time and money. I cannot imagine schools wouldn’t be fully open by then, but if they are or they’re not, it’s because of health metrics and not them.

Yes, and this time last year people couldn’t imagine schools not at least opening on a hybrid basis this past fall.

I also couldn't imagine our POTUS fck up our response like he did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Why do you want to keep kids out of the classroom?
If you are a teacher with a health issue, you are DL-ing.

LIAR. That isn't what OP said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Why do you want to keep kids out of the classroom?
If you are a teacher with a health issue, you are DL-ing.

NP: my kids start hybrid next week and I want them back full time in person in the fall. But I think it's too much to bring them back full time this school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Why do you want to keep kids out of the classroom?
If you are a teacher with a health issue, you are DL-ing.

NP: my kids start hybrid next week and I want them back full time in person in the fall. But I think it's too much to bring them back full time this school year.

Most people agree with you re: hybrid now, full time next school year. But if you don’t keep up the pressure now, you won’t get full time next school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Why do you want to keep kids out of the classroom?
If you are a teacher with a health issue, you are DL-ing.

NP: my kids start hybrid next week and I want them back full time in person in the fall. But I think it's too much to bring them back full time this school year.

Most people agree with you re: hybrid now, full time next school year. But if you don’t keep up the pressure now, you won’t get full time next school year.

I think APE does a disservice to themselves with those signs and demanding it now, for this school year. They get branded, fairly or unfairly, as a bunch of crazies. I think they would be more effective and less polarizing if they tailored their message for the fall. Except that I also think there is a strong APE contingent who actually want to open full time now and not just at ES level.

[Anonymous]

At least be decent and fundraise for extra masks, wipes and other supplies schools need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Why do you want to keep kids out of the classroom?
If you are a teacher with a health issue, you are DL-ing.

Its a health issue for everyone. Some of us care concerned about others as well as ourselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a waste of time and money. I cannot imagine schools wouldn’t be fully open by then, but if they are or they’re not, it’s because of health metrics and not them.

Yes, and this time last year people couldn’t imagine schools not at least opening on a hybrid basis this past fall.

Abs then the vaccines happened. Not you nuts with your signs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a waste of time and money. I cannot imagine schools wouldn’t be fully open by then, but if they are or they’re not, it’s because of health metrics and not them.

Yes, and this time last year people couldn’t imagine schools not at least opening on a hybrid basis this past fall.

You people give yourselves too much credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least be decent and fundraise for extra masks, wipes and other supplies schools need.

I guess you missed when they did this in October? There was a thread on AEM that asked teachers for wish lists. Or that a number of people in APE offered to buy tents/awnings and such for outdoor lunches but were rebuffed? Are you privy to the conversations many in APE have had with principals, teachers and APS admin checking to see PPE needs or wipes? Believe me, the principals at my kids’ schools know if they need anything I would be happy to support them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least be decent and fundraise for extra masks, wipes and other supplies schools need.

I guess you missed when they did this in October? There was a thread on AEM that asked teachers for wish lists. Or that a number of people in APE offered to buy tents/awnings and such for outdoor lunches but were rebuffed? Are you privy to the conversations many in APE have had with principals, teachers and APS admin checking to see PPE needs or wipes? Believe me, the principals at my kids’ schools know if they need anything I would be happy to support them.

Maybe that should have been part of their message if it was so important to them. Not everyone (anyone?) monitors the AEM post for random APE parents. I don’t even know who most of them are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So that didn't take long. Elementary students returned yesterday and already APE is fundraising for new signs that say:

Your Student, Every Day
APS is Ready

Did I miss the announcement that COVID is over? Because I swear I just heard the CDC Director and President Biden say now is not the time to relax our mitigation efforts because 50,000 people a day are catching COVID and 2,000 people a day are still dying from it. Presumably this mitigation includes the social distancing that is impossible if all students go back right now. I also heard President Biden say yesterday that adults will be vaccinated by the end of May, so maybe it's worth waiting for at least that?

WTAF is wrong with them?

Why do you want to keep kids out of the classroom?
If you are a teacher with a health issue, you are DL-ing.

Its a health issue for everyone. Some of us care concerned about others as well as ourselves.

x1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just think about how much of a better place our world would be if the APE people put all of their time and energy into doing something GOOD for a change.

I don't think even John Lennon could imagine something as far fetched as that

Agreed. It would be a huge stretch to expect something reasonable from that group.