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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I just confirm that the people upset with APS have withdrawn their children and will not be returning?[/quote]

At least one made that claim recently on AEM. Good riddance. [/quote]

I don't understand this mentality. I think it's actually bad for communities and public schools overall when a large percentage of the students opt out. I thought that was one reason APS historically has been better than Alexandria, for example, or DCPS. We don't really want to be a community where the wealthy send their kids private.[/quote]

I think what we're seeing is a community where the entitled send their kids private, and if it gives lower-income families more of a voice, I'm all for it.

I am frustrated by parents who can't distinguish between schools being closed and instruction being remote; by parents who think, all things being equal, teachers prefer remote instruction; by parents who think test scores and achievement are the same thing; by parents who think that because they rely on schools for child care, that is the schools' job regardless of circumstances

I am also frustrated that APS did not seem to do a better job of (or explaining why it didn't do a better job of) triaging and remediating -- or providing guidance to parents on how to remediate -- the biggest problems with remote instruction, such as a lack of social interaction. I think APS' longstanding inadequacy in diagnosing LDs such as dyslexia made life a lot worse for everyone involved. I don't think APS ever set clear guidelines for when it would and would not offer in-person instruction, what would be expected of students and teachers when there was in-person instruction, and how it would assess whether schools were safe places to be. [/quote]

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