APS has highest regional percentage learning in person

[Anonymous]

What will our friends at APE do with this? So happy to see some actual numbers instead of the vague claims about how awfully APS performed compared to everyone else.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/washington-schools-in-person-numbers/2021/05/30/b7974f60-bf9f-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html

[Anonymous]

Thanks for posting. I tried to post about this before but it was deleted.

[Anonymous]

To be fair, wasn't APE arguing for more than 2 day hybrid? I mean, I don't think this is the gotcha moment you seem to want it to be.

[Anonymous]

Yes, many Arlington parents supported hybrid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will our friends at APE do with this? So happy to see some actual numbers instead of the vague claims about how awfully APS performed compared to everyone else.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/washington-schools-in-person-numbers/2021/05/30/b7974f60-bf9f-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html

Now make the graph percentage of time spent in person

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, wasn't APE arguing for more than 2 day hybrid? I mean, I don't think this is the gotcha moment you seem to want it to be.

Yeah. If anything this supports APE’s position. A majority of parents want their kids in school buildings.

-not an APE or SR member

[Anonymous]

58% of kids attend school in person two days a week. That’s something to be proud of?

[Anonymous]

I mean, they will say that their advocacy successfully resulted in the highest regional levels of IPL, right? This is a stupid attempt at a gotcha, OP.

[Anonymous]

This is one of the dumbest posts I've seen in some time. Whether this school system performed well during this pandemic depends on an analysis of many factors. Excessive criticism and desperate cheerleading both seem unreasonable at this point.

[Anonymous]

I'm not really understanding the use of the word "vague" Looking at posts here and listening to some people, I heard very specific, detailed criticisms. Are those anecdotes? Sure, I can't objectively verify every assertion. I am sure that many, if not most, people would want to give APS the benefit of the doubt. But I wouldn't brush aside the criticisms.

[Anonymous]

I like how APS handled the expansion of students in the classroom the last few months. There wasn't enough room to bring everyone back this past school year, including this past spring, certainly not if there was any intent to adhere to CDC and VDH health guidelines. I think of it like pie. Those who selected IPL last fall got a piece of the IPL pie. As circumstances changed for both adults and children -- in the form of changing guidance and the big one, vaccines -- APS could have followed FFX's lead and made those pieces of pie bigger for those folks, while refusing any pie to those who had selected VL in the fall before these changed circumstances. Instead, APS told the first group of IPL that their pie pieces would remain the same size, while offering a comparable piece of the pie to the formerly VL families. At the end of the day, APE is crying because they wanted a bigger piece of the pie and are pissed that they had to share it with others.

[Anonymous]

Alternate headline/subhead: DC region most conservative in nation, performs large experiment on children: What long-lasting effects will this region see by keeping most of its children out of school for over a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like how APS handled the expansion of students in the classroom the last few months. There wasn't enough room to bring everyone back this past school year, including this past spring, certainly not if there was any intent to adhere to CDC and VDH health guidelines. I think of it like pie. Those who selected IPL last fall got a piece of the IPL pie. As circumstances changed for both adults and children -- in the form of changing guidance and the big one, vaccines -- APS could have followed FFX's lead and made those pieces of pie bigger for those folks, while refusing any pie to those who had selected VL in the fall before these changed circumstances. Instead, APS told the first group of IPL that their pie pieces would remain the same size, while offering a comparable piece of the pie to the formerly VL families. At the end of the day, APE is crying because they wanted a bigger piece of the pie and are pissed that they had to share it with others.

I completely agree. As conditions improved and more adults were able to be vaccinated, more parents wanted their kids back in buildings and I appreciate that APS accommodated them as best they could. This is so much more equitable than 4 days for those who were already there for 2.

[Anonymous]

APE types complained that ALL of the other school districts have more kids back in school. But they don’t. Those districts were only able to add more days for a *subset* of kids because they had a lower % of kids back.

APS and ACPS made the conscious decision to bring back more kids vs more days. That was the fair approach. Selfish APE types didn’t like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:58% of kids attend school in person two days a week. That’s something to be proud of?

+1 the fact that none of these schools are back in full time is horrifying.

All those kids are going to be so far behind.