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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By any metric, Dr. Duran has failed APS students.  Under his watch, children are barely even learning anything and the test scores reflect that.   Teacher compensation has stagnated while administrative positions keep being added at Syphax with in sight.  Our kids cannot go another school year with him at the helm. He is steering APS into a death spiral which it may not recover from.[/quote]

Most of what you are saying either was an issue before he arrived, some of which he is already working to change, or pandemic related which really, can’t be all his fault.  I appreciate that he has begun to identify issues and solve problems that were created long before he came to APS.[/quote]
The disaster called VLP was 100% under his watch.  That alone should be enough to show he must go.[/quote]

+100 and how he’s shown no creativity in trying to get as many kids back in classrooms last year. Why couldn’t he have at least prioritized getting younger kids (who cannot engage well with virtual school) back ASAP and as many days as possible, but instead decided all K-12 kids had to be treated the exact same. And I still see nothing being done this year to prepare for staffing issues. Maybe instead of spending so much COVID relief money on creating VLP we could have used it to create bonuses for substitute teachers to make sure we were competitive for hiring. I saw the pay rate for subs is $18/hour, which is not going to entice people into classrooms during a pandemic. It’s almost as if he wanted virtual learning to be the wave of the future and for his VLP to lauded as some success. But putting so many eggs in the basket of virtual learning is a bust for most students. He’s truly awful, especially in the eyes of young elementary families and I hope he gets fired.[/quote]

K-2 did go back earlier. After highest needs SpEd.

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Not until spring shortly before everyone else went back. They should have been at least hybrid in the fall and 4 or 5 days in the spring. Because of all the logistical challenges in getting everyone back more days, no one could go back more than 2 days. You can’t treat a kindergartner the same as a high schooler. There should have been separate planning from day 1.[/quote]
He still hasn't realized that a kindergarten isn't the same as a high school.  If he did, he'd have a plan that says if schools close for staff shortages he'll prioritize keeping K-2 in person.[/quote]

Exactly! If we do get to a point of staffing shortages (which we likely will) then we should be prioritizing available substitutes, bus drivers, etc. to the elementary schools. At least elementary kids are with one class cohort and not mixing like MS and HS kids. So why can’t we have separate contingencies for different grade levels?[/quote]
He won't do anything that makes it more logistically challenging for him.  It's either open or closed.  And if even one kid temporarily can't access learning, instead of solving that problem, his solution is no learning for anyone.  It's a perverted version of equity.[/quote]

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