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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like APS forgot it's core mission: education.  Instead it focused on feeding families and preventing community spread.  When truthfully that slack would likely have been picked up by state government, local government and community groups if the schools had just done what they needed to do to educate students.  [/quote]

Listen to how privileged you sound. I am so over the whining of the upper class Open Up Now - APE crowd. So over it. If your complaint is virtual learning, you are very, very privileged. Others died or lost family members.

It's a pandemic. No one had normal. Get over it. Things are getting back to normal and we will get there. Have some patience, grace and empathy.

And for god's sake, stop blaming. [/quote]
You do realize how privileged you sound, right?  Having the means to educate and provide childcare for your children without relying on public schools is absolutely a privilege.

It's a false choice to say that closing schools is better than people dying.  What about closing high risk activities like bars, restaurants and gyms and proving support for those displaced workers?  That surely would have saved many more lives than closing schools.  APS could have forced the community's hand by saying "education is a priority so we're going to open" and then forcing local government to react to lower community spread.  Please stop being a lemming and consider what actual leadership would have looked like.  [/quote]

Completely agree. [b]For whatever reason, county/school leadership just implicitly agreed that schools were the one institution that needed to stay closed.[/b] And if you disagreed, you were just a Trumper, part of some vile group, anti-science, whatever. And more, if you weren't able to re-arrange your life to accommodate this idiotic decisioning, you were a failure of a parent and you should be questioning your initial decision to have kids in the first place. It's just a batsh@t insane narrative being pushed here. [/quote]

The reason is that they truly don't care about kids and education. The direction of education (going all the way to college) in this country is to push it more and more onto personal family responsiblity/choice/expense, and disdaining public support for education as a public good. I admit I never would have anticipated that society could just close schools for over a year seemingly without hesitation ... but there you go.  [/quote]

No.  Schools were never supposed to do everything for you. Your child is your responsibility, first and foremost.  School should not have to fix obesity, mental health, all of this other stuff that they have been charged with lately. Parents always had to support kids with their education at home, with organization, with social emotional skills, etc., etc.

I am a teacher.  I am so pissed off, frankly, that so many of my students were not available for learning this year because of the attitudes of their parents.  If someone is telling you this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you and you can’t learn that way, what do you think is going to happen?  It was the pygmalion effect in full swing.

I’m also a parent.  My kids were fine during this time, and they learned. I’m sorry to tell you, but I think I know what the difference was here.[/quote]

My kid wasn't "available" for learning because he was NOT IN SCHOOL. Are you really that dense? This isn't parents' faults. [/quote]

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