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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MAGA attack on public ed[/quote]

No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.[/quote]

It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support [/quote]

The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.[/quote]

It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools. [/quote]

okay so what's your plan? [/quote]
Expand summer school to be offered to more at risk and struggling students, like it used to before the pandemic.[/quote]

ok but you do realize these discrepancies existed before the pandemic too right? [/quote]
It was a quality program that was good for students.  I know several students who benefited.

Your proposal is to do nothing?  Got it.[/quote]

I have asked you for a proposal, then pointed out yours won't fix it because your only plan is to restore something that, while helpful, didn't work to fix disparities in the past. Do you have anything else? [/quote]
I'm a parent, not a magic genie.  I'm not, nor any other parent on this forum, going to have some perfect magical plan to fix this.

But I did suggest two solid proposals that could be done to help: putting in place an actual math curriculum and un-gutting summer school so it's available to more at risk students. Both are evidence-based answers to narrowing disparities.

As far as I can tell, Duran is doing nothing to actually address this issue, but just doubling down on recognizing groups for whatever appreciation month, finding more religious holidays to close schools, and running a food kitchen out of our schools.  It took Youngkin for us to get Math 6 Intensified this year, which was badly needed for math differentiation.  I'm absolutely not a Republican, but I am super frustrated that Dems aren't taking education seriously and are making excuses instead of doing what we can to best educate students.  [/quote]

DP. It’s also not the role of parents to come up with the solutions. This is why the administrators exist. If they can’t solve problems then it’s time to find new ones. Not saying every single problem can be fully fixed but I don’t understand the defeatist attitude that nothing can be improved.[/quote]

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