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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For kids who think public school is horrible this year. I promise (from a teacher perspective at least) private school is also horrible. I have a number of friends that teach at private school and they are miserable this year (2 of them are leaving teaching all together at the end of the year). It is not like private school kids magically know how to behave better than public school kids. And it is not like private school teachers get amazing support from Admin just because they are private. This year has been a lot.

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But doesn't this relate to whether schools were open or closed last year? We switched to Catholic which was open close to normal last year, and my kids are having a great school year this year. I'm so glad we didn't send them back into APS, which I think is going to take many, many, many years to recover from having been closed for so long last year. Arlington did so much harm to kids in the way it handled COVID, and we are going to be seeing that for a very long time. And APS still won't admit that it made a huge mistake in how it handled things, worst in the region, I believe, and our region overall was among the worst in the nation.[/quote]

Completely agree. I have a SN kid whose mental health completely disintegrated after APS abandoned him in the spring of 2020 for "equity" (still don't know what that means). Even before the pandemic, we found that the reality did not match APS's reputation. In our last full year, we had a substitute for almost the whole year. She could not control the class and they had one kid who was increasingly violent, progressing to the point where he attacked another boy in the classroom. There were never any apparent consequences for him. We'll never go back.[/quote]

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