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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]East end parent here. Our school PTA president was also begging for resources. Mental health resources and additional teachers. Don't pit east end versus west end schools. A lot of the schools not receiving encore are at east end schools too. ACPS wants nothing more than for us to divide and argue. Then they will do whatever they want with the teachers with no regard for the lack of transparency and communication. I definitely think ALL students deserve the same instructional time. But you can't change a teacher's contract at the last minute. We have teachers at our school who do not have cars and rely on public transportation and walking/bike riding. Are they now supposed to drive all over the city of Alexandria? Is a car now required?

ACPS has a fleet of cars.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're at a small, east end elementary, although not one of the named ones, and I can't imagine our school without our full-time Encore teachers. They basically make the school. In addition to their own classes, the Encore teachers have been subbing during the substitute shortage, and have been the only constant during my 5th grader's experience. They've been there the whole time, including through the pandemic. None of the classroom teachers K-4th remain, which is probably why my kids feel closest to the Encore teachers. [/quote]

[b]That's really great for your child's east end school. But that's not what the west end has gotten and so that isn't equitable.

Please stop to consider your privilege. [/b][/quote]

Why should the PP and her child pay the price for ACPS' falling asleep at the wheel? Why not increase encore staffing at Ferdinand Day, Pol, Adams and other elementary schools? Why erode one school's educational opportunities just to bring it in line with schools that lack adequate resources? This race to the bottom you're endorsing makes no sense. But hey, "equity" and all that jazz...[/quote]

They should pay the price because they support the Alexandria establishment and the push for equity. This is equity in ACPS. They asked for this and it's immoral that they don't have the exact same experience at their east end school as a school in the west end.

The west end PTAs were at School Board meetings this year begging for resources. You don't see that from the privileged east end schools. If these parents were being true to their equity ideals, they would be advocating for the west end schools to get more or better than them. This is the systemic racism and classism that the east side likes to ignore.

The fact remains that ACPS has 54 million dollars from covid that they haven't spent despite previously saying it was all earmarked. [/quote][/quote][/quote]

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