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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not surprised VA was 44th last year. It's hard to imagine many places offered less in-person instruction than we did. That's why it boggles my mind all the people who are like, "Eh. We tried." We did, but were quite close to dead last. I think a lot of people really don't understand how things ran elsewhere. It's not just TX and FL either. The whole Mountain West - places I normally think of us lapping in education -- the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming -- were all basically business as usual last year, with much better outcomes for their students.[/quote]

Yes, the five kids in Wyoming could spread out in the barn.  :roll: 
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Wow you are ignorant. These places have smaller populations, but they have similar class sizes (both in terms of number of students and physical space). But I feel like I'm wasting my time here, because many of you will never admit just how poorly APS handled the pandemic, even now that we have giant datasets that provide empirical evidence that demonstrates it.[/quote]
That’s not necessarily true.  Western states tend to underfund education and can have huge class sizes. I worked in a 2nd grade classroom with 32 kids in Colorado and that wasn’t an outlier. [/quote]

OK so even more so the barn answer is ridiculous. These places found a way, and APS could have too, is that point. But we didn't. And now we have these huge gaps. [/quote]
My point is that the class sizes aren’t similar and APS parents freak out at 25 kids in a class! I thought it was so luxurious when I got here and started teaching. We have supplies, comparatively tiny classes and nice facilities.  [/quote]

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