APS Students Who Went Private -- How many

[Anonymous]

Not going private but relocating to an area where kids' education has been more of a priority and K-5 have been in-person full-time since early 2021.

[Anonymous]

Duran is announcing 5 day in person for next year today for all the people who keep doubting it. Virtual will be a separate option but they are expecting most kids to be in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duran is announcing 5 day in person for next year today for all the people who keep doubting it. Virtual will be a separate option but they are expecting most kids to be in person.

"APS will be offering a five-day in-person instructional model and a separate, five-day K-12 distance learning program for students in the fall, while following health and safety guidelines". However, this doesn't guarantee a teacher in the classroom.

I really hope APS can pull it's head out of it's ass and figure this out. I have no dog left in this fight but I really feel for the kids that couldn't get out of APS who wanted to. I truly hope they are back 5 FULL days with a teacher in the fall but I have no faith in them.

[Anonymous]

I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

Correct. The only thing will be masks. Otherwise normal. I’ve told my students this too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They didn’t withdraw because of the pandemic. They withdrew because of APS’s response to the pandemic.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

So will accommodations be waived then starting in the fall?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

So will accommodations be waived then starting in the fall?

Staff is reporting in person. Virtual accommodations only through this school year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

So will accommodations be waived then starting in the fall?

Staff is reporting in person. Virtual accommodations only through this school year.

I’m a teacher/parent too- I’m thrilled and don’t know of a single teacher at my school (elementary) that isn’t looking forward to school being mostly normal in the fall. Please stop trying to push the narrative that teachers don’t want to return- not necessarily aimed at PP but at everyone who thinks teachers don’t want to teach!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

So will accommodations be waived then starting in the fall?

Staff is reporting in person. Virtual accommodations only through this school year.

Duran says all teachers will be assigned to a school. When they get a sense of how many students choose virtual they will allow teachers to apply.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

So will accommodations be waived then starting in the fall?

Staff is reporting in person. Virtual accommodations only through this school year.

I’m a teacher/parent too- I’m thrilled and don’t know of a single teacher at my school (elementary) that isn’t looking forward to school being mostly normal in the fall. Please stop trying to push the narrative that teachers don’t want to return- not necessarily aimed at PP but at everyone who thinks teachers don’t want to teach!!

I also can’t think of any colleagues who would prefer virtual teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

So will accommodations be waived then starting in the fall?

Staff is reporting in person. Virtual accommodations only through this school year.

Duran says all teachers will be assigned to a school. When they get a sense of how many students choose virtual they will allow teachers to apply.

So does anyone know if they will do a separate virtual school with virtual accommodated teachers and then everyone else is in person? I'm worried about concurrent (for kids and the teachers) in the fall. Seems like the worst option for all. There was a speaker a few meetings ago advocating to keep virtual kids at their school and that feels like a nightmare for planning and will just continue concurrent. Also what would the accommodations be (asking seriously not trying to imply something) post every teacher being offered the vaccine. That's already happened in Arlington as they've moved onto 1c.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m an APS teacher/parent who considers myself to be in the middle in terms of satisfaction with the district. I think we will have a school year very close to normal next year.

So will accommodations be waived then starting in the fall?

Staff is reporting in person. Virtual accommodations only through this school year.

Duran says all teachers will be assigned to a school. When they get a sense of how many students choose virtual they will allow teachers to apply.

So does anyone know if they will do a separate virtual school with virtual accommodated teachers and then everyone else is in person? I'm worried about concurrent (for kids and the teachers) in the fall. Seems like the worst option for all. There was a speaker a few meetings ago advocating to keep virtual kids at their school and that feels like a nightmare for planning and will just continue concurrent. Also what would the accommodations be (asking seriously not trying to imply something) post every teacher being offered the vaccine. That's already happened in Arlington as they've moved onto 1c.

Virtual will be separate with teachers that apply to be virtual teachers. Concurrent will be over in 10 weeks, thank god!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of that 8000 are kids who were registered for K and whose parents didn’t send them after all. When you take that out and realize they’ll all go in next year and many private defectors will come back, it’s not a huge number . Same for any districts.

Private defectors are not coming back. Why on earth would they?

Private school isn't worth $40k more than public 5-days, in-person for many families.

Parochials certainly aren't worth it.

Parochials at about $6-7k a year are worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of that 8000 are kids who were registered for K and whose parents didn’t send them after all. When you take that out and realize they’ll all go in next year and many private defectors will come back, it’s not a huge number . Same for any districts.

Private defectors are not coming back. Why on earth would they?

Private school isn't worth $40k more than public 5-days, in-person for many families.

Parochials certainly aren't worth it.

Parochials at about $6-7k a year are worth it.

Not for subpar education and religious nonsense.