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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a long-term APS parent who has seen kids at all levels who pulled some kids to private this year because of COVID. I discovered some huge gaps in my kids' education I did not know about. APS had some bad years under Murphy, and the system overall went downhill. I think Duran will make it better. Knowing what I know now, I would probably put kids in APS again, but I would do a lot of things differently. I would supplement more at home and make sure they are learning things like spelling and handwriting. APS is terrible at some of the essentials, and ditto on them not handling early reading problems well. Again, they are moving away from some reading approaches that don't work with dyslexic kids, so odds are good your children would be spared that. I also think APS doesn't teach enough writing. Catholic school (where I have some kids this year) is explicitly teaching grammar, and it turns out one my kids in middle school basically didn't even know what nouns and verbs were! None of them spell well. I'm not entirely blaming APS for this, a lot is on me as a parent. But I trusted they were learning, and their grades were good, and test scores were fine, so I let is slide along. It also depends a ton on the principal. We had a good ES principal who was replaced by a terrible one. The difference it made in the school was unbelievable. [/quote]

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