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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s great in theory. Awful in practice.

My favorite post ever on AEM was when one of the most outspoken characters had it pointed out to her that many/most AEM members don’t post because they don’t want to engage in that mess, and she accused them/us of unfairly limiting the dialogue.

That is AEM in a nutshell.[/quote]

Lol. I don’t remember that one. My favorite was the DON’T BLOCK ME thesis. [/quote]

This is actually quite important. People from SmartRestart block people so they can't get fact checked on the COVID misinformation/fear porn they're spreading to the community (and many of the teachers who follow AEM).

It's also full of bullying. The "moderator" is a power hungry joke who lets the "close the schools down forever" crowd run wild there and slam anyone who disagrees with them (i.e., the vast majority of the country). But she'd kick people off for criticizing healthy teachers (e.g., a mid-30s Yorktown teacher who posts on AEM) for taking non-ADA leaves of absence during an education staffing crisis.

Speaking of which, if a healthy teacher wanted to take a LOA, they should have been forbidden as there was a staffing crisis. APS could have done what Catholic schools and any other employer does in a time of staffing crisis - no LOAs, with the only other option to quit. So many kids got stuck with Zoom in a room because of the Arlington County government refusing to cross the teachers unions. But no - the "moderator" on AEM enforces censorship of what is such a common sense solution.

Thus, you can also thank AEM (and the "moderator") for contributing significantly to what appears APS' record of highest % unenrollment of a school district in the country. APS last year was a school district ran with the primary purpose to pay adults, not educate children. And parents (who could afford it) voted with their feet.[/quote]

1.) Some APE members blocked people who didn't agree with them too. IIRC, I think the "Don't Block Me" post was a SR member complaining about APE members blocking her.
2.) If you wrote this diatribe on AEM, I would block you too.
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+10000. It's been written before ad nauseam. I guess bro dad is so angry that he'll write it again in another thread.

Also thanks to AEM, we all know that both sides blocked each other. You would think that there would be peace in Arlington. Thanks, DCUM.  :P [/quote]

APE member here. We definitely weren't blocking people on AEM.  The only reason most of us went on that horrible echo chamber was to fight misinformation from the typical SmartRestart folks.  Most APE are now gone from AEM (the science is now clear that we were right, and SmartRestart was wrong).

Please be ready to hear about the unenrollment numbers ad nauseam going forward, including in the local and national press.  The official ones will be coming out soon, and we already know from the little information released in May that they're going to be very bad (worse than San Francisco).[/quote]

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