Reply to So over APS

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "So over APS"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m just about done with people claiming they want more for their tax money. At most you pay $15k for your property taxes. Find a top public school for your multiple children on the portion of that given to APS. You get a pretty good value for your money actually.[/quote]

Public institutions are not fee for service. That isn't the model of a government school. Some highly taxed people don't send their kids there. Some no-taxed people send many kids there. Taxes are levied to support a functional school system for the good of the public, not as a service for parents. I think people are questioning whether APS is delivering a good public school system. I am questioning that. When people claim I can't complain because of the amount of my property taxes, that makes me think they don't understand what a public good is. It also makes me wonder whether they're APS teachers or staff who think they're above reproach.[/quote]

It also makes me wonder why there is such complacency.  I tend to think that has something to do with the general  psychological makeup of wealthy parents.[/quote]

I used to be fine with APS because I thought that as long as my kids were having a good experience at school, I was happy with it, and I have a high HHI and lots of degrees so my kids will eventually wind up fine.

But then I heard what was going on in class and was soooo disappointed with the curriculum. I think the kids should have gone back to school earlier but that wasn’t even my main issue because it was a difficult call to make. But I felt like my kid just wasn’t  learning anything from school. Math was okay because DS had a good math teacher but I just cannot stand the idea that my child is spending 7 hours in school learning stuff like captions, and then being expected to write a book (A LITERAL BOOK WITH CHAPTERS AND A TABLE OF CONTENTS AND EVERYTHING) when he had never learned to write a good paragraph. Plus there was no feedback on any of the writing he worked so hard on. I knew that they didn’t learn much science or social studies but I just found the hours and hours of reading and math instruction depressing.

Now I get that both things are true: my kid will do fine in life no matter what, and APS curriculum sucks and should be changed. [/quote]

Why are you so convinced that your “kid will do fine in life no matter what ....”?  I hear that a lot in Arlington.  What is it?  Delusional thinking? Privilege?  Entitlement?  The notion that a certain HHI guarantees one a place on top of the hierarchy in the future?  All of those things strike me as out of step with equity.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics