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[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]

My point is that there are many significant differences between Wyoming and Arlington. When you look at other areas that faced similar challenges during the pandemic we aren’t such an outlier.

And from the study linked earlier: 
[i]It is possible that the relationships we have observed are not entirely causal, that family stress in the districts that remained remote both caused the decline in achievement and drove school officials to keep school buildings closed.[/i]

The pandemic sucked. It will have long-lasting damages. Let’s address those.

Blaming APS is pointless - especially since they had a reasonable response given the constraints. 
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