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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]an ACPS teacher I contacted (personally spoke to each of my students families) if they wanted to be hybrid or stay virtual.

[b]Additionally, I received emails AND a phone call from MY child’s school confirming our preference[/b]. How in the world you got that I “never received contact or chose not to respond” from that is beyond me...[/quote]

Even assuming that this is all true for you and your family personally, I can 100 percent guarantee you that GWMS or Hammond, where there are hundreds of kids per grade (more than at my child's entire ES) and up to 7 teachers per student for various subjects, is not doing this.[/quote]

We are at an ES, filled out the form for hybrid and we never got emails or phone calls from the school.  NBD. I had no expectation that if we filled it out that we would be contacted.

It sounds like this ACPS teacher did a great job contacting their students and that their child's school went above and beyond.  But that is not everyone's experience.  There is no need to call people names and imply that they are dumb and call their kids names simply because they have had a different experience than you.

And as others have written, the issue is that in December ACPS and Hutchings repeatedly said they would work with parents when the time to go back came.  Now that time is here and they aren't offering any flexibility, understanding or patience.  Three things that they've been asking that parents give them since last March.

ACPS' return is already a mess.  They are citing "health protocols" for the use of playgrounds that aren't being used by their own child care partners or the city.  They are citing equity as a reason NOT to get as many kids as possible into hybrid.  The latest from our school is that the hybrid kids won't be allowed to use the books in the classrooms because that wouldn't be equitable to the kids still doing full virtual.  Parents who chose hybrid still don't have any concrete information to figure out work schedules and child care.  ACPS central office's rigidity and extremely poor communication is on full display now.

Like any relationship, this one should be a two way street.  But it's not.  And parents still have no where to go.

When the PTA comes looking for donations, I will remember that they never even bothered to ask questions of ACPS.  I'll remember it when the signer(s) of that PTAC op-ed runs for elected office in Alexandria.  When these groups were most needed by parents, they abandoned them.[/quote]

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