Reply to APS budget cuts - no MS sports or extracurriculars

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "APS budget cuts - no MS sports or extracurriculars"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Do you think academic support can be improved, the achievement gap addressed, and quality instruction - including small class sizes - can happen without additional employees? There's a new CDEIO position that everyone insists APS has. He needs staff to do his job. One teacher specialist added to the gifted services office - someone who might help APS actually properly serve gifted students. Math coaches - real people providing direct academic support to students.

Everybody seems to complain that APS is overloaded with central office personnel. I disagree. APS operates, generally speaking, with a skeleton crew for the size and quality of our school system.
I don't even know what an "equity audit" for curriculum even means; so I might be with you there. But if it's just reviewing curriculum for inclusive and honest content, I don't think that requires additional staff; so what's the harm?[/quote]

PP must work at Syphax. Schools do not need a bunch of additional GT and math coaches to lord over the teachers. They need these people to get out of the teachers' way and give them more time to plan.
	[/quote]

PP Here and not a Syphax employee or an APS employee.  Just an APS parent.

Math coaches and RTGs provide direct services to students and enable teachers to provide better instruction in their classrooms.  More time to plan does not create more time to teach multiple lessons directed at students at multiple levels of proficiency in every subject during each class period.  These are not central admin staff people.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics