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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS enrollment has declined due to the fact it blows.[/quote]

APS enrollment has declined due to the fact that young families cannot afford to live here.[/quote]
Multiple factors at play[/quote]

You can look it up online, but APS enrollment has declined since COVID and they are predicting flat to negative growth in the next ten years. Agree that multiple factors are at play, but the district’s decisions during COVID did not help for student retention. We know many families that were all public, all the way until then. [/quote]

yes the APEs and good riddance[/quote]

We’re very liberal, always vote for Dems, and left APS during Covid. [/quote]

a lot of APE's left[/quote]

Thank god.

Too bad they still infest APS committees. 
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All I know about APE is that their existence is extremely polarizing on this board, as in people are strongly for APE or strongly against APE.  Given that limited awareness of APE, I will say that I find it baffling that so many people get so riled up about parents....caring about public education and...advocating for its improvement.  Disagreements about how to improve education are one thing, but some people seem to think your views are only relevant if you have a child in public schools.  If a parent has their kids in private but still advocate for improvements in public schools, that sounds to me like someone who values public education enough to try to improve it, and would move their kids to public schools if they thought the public schools were better.  Isn't that a level of engagement a good thing?

-signed a parent who is NOT part of APE (in case that wasn't clear)

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I think the divisiveness and bitterness goes back to a couple highly controversial APE stances like the return to classrooms during covid, and the push to reduce the amount of time spent using ipads and macbooks in the schools. Both issues were/have been very polarizing in Arlington. 
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Everyone was crazy on both sides with COVID. We were a keep schools closed family (we had vulnerable family members and imagined most families probably had something similar). Now we see there was space for opening sooner safely.

But less screens? Who is advocating against that?!?[/quote]

I'm not sure I would use the term "advocating against", but schools keep using them, in too many instances they are used excessive IME.  I understand that make some things like grading easier, but I'm not seeing the benefits as a parent.  If anything, it is harder to know what my student is doing because test and homework no longer come home.  In math, my child "shows their work" on scratch paper which is immediately tossed after a test, so they cannot go back to see what they missed.  That is assuming my child takes the initiative to go ask the teacher which problem(s) they missed on a test because the only feedback my child (or I) see on a math test is the total score. [/quote]

The screens are a necessary retention tool for teachers. The younger teachers have large classes and grew up themselves with technology ; managing the physical paper and keeping track of books and supplies for 30 kids is a messy logistical problem. Screens make prep work easier than printing worksheets, handing in paper essays and problem sets, etc.

Smaller classes or less required training and SOL prep maybe teachers would have bandwidth for managing physical materials. But not happening. [/quote]
I don’t agree that screens make things easier in the early years (prek-3) I’d much rather use paper than screens (no technical difficulties) I left the classroom for a specialist role a couple years ago and still prefer books and paper. [/quote]

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