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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The local school board doesn't control abortion rights. I'm definitely going to think twice about who I vote for in school board elections due to school closures. I can't go back in time but I can think twice about voting for people who didn't make fact- based decisions and didn't pressure Duran to open schools when he said it was too complicated.[/quote]

You might want to get your facts straight. Duran wasn't even the superintendent during 2019-2020 school year during school closures.[/quote]

But he was superintendent for the 2020-2021 school year
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So a brand new superintendent dealing with the most disruptive educational situation in the last hundred years should be blamed because kids didn't get pass advanced on their SOLs? My kid -- average intelligence, with IEP, hating school, probably never turned his camera on -- got the best scores he ever got on SOLs in the last two years. He should have flamed out but didn't. I'm sorry the pandemic inconvenienced you and messed up Larlo's chances to go to Harvard (or whatever the effect is you think is at issue).

It's over.  If your kid was struggling you should have reached out or helped them yourself. Yeah, I got a lot sick of working full time and then having to be teach at night, but people were dying all over the place and the science behind it was always developing. The teachers always answered my emails or my son's requests. Arlington made every effort to reach kids who may not have had internet or parental support at home, but sometimes life is just going to suck. And I bet you didn't have to deal with the challenges of managing the reopening of large institutions during a time when mitigations were unknown/always changing, or the proper supplies were unavailable or on backorder. I did. I'm sorry Duran didn't have the same magic wand that you apparently had. [/quote]
The teachers certainly didn't answer my questions, nor do anything to meet my child's educational needs.  The teachers complained it was too hard to teach virtually so the principal permitted them to combine classes and teach less.  We had 45 seven andd eight yos students on a Teams call with one teacher.  Zero small groups.  Zero graded assignments.  Zero feedback on any assignment all year.  Teachers didn't even bother filling out report cards for Q4, where at least the prior quarters they marked progressing in every category with zero comments.  Sometimes teachers didn't even show up for class and there'd be a Teams call with no supervision.  It was abysmal.  At one point I emailed a teacher asking for book suggestions for my kid and she told me that she couldn't given personalized recommendations because it would be inequitable because some parents don't have access to email.

I sent plenty of emails about the situation to both Duran and the school board and the only email I ever got wad auto-generated stating that they were receiving too many emails and had stopped even reading them.  [/quote]

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