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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents on here are something else.  I think they never paid attention to their kids education til now. But now they are experts and they are outraged.  Most of what you’re complaining about has been in place for 5 years or more. I see posts from a bunch of out of touch whiners. Got to private or move if you think it’s so awful. [/quote]

So you think APS could not be improved at all? Not even one bit? And that parents who want the system to do better are whiners?

Is this how you deal with other life problems? I find that sad, actually. [/quote]

No. I think there is always room for improvement. I think the issues identified by the parents on here (and the way they appear to outraged at basic instructional methods and curriculum approaches employed for many years  throughout NVA reveal them to be out of touch whiners and complainers. [/quote]

How about you spend a day in my house watching my child in a full on panic attack and in tears before you call someone else out of touch? I’m not interested in academic pedagogical navel-gazing. I want APS to see that its technological incompetence and its failure to manage its staff (teachers should not punish kids for that incompetence) have turned even my straight A, calm, confident high schooler into a basket case trying to do the school’s job so she doesn’t take the hit to her GPA? I can only imagine how hard this is on kids. My kid’s teachers don’t seem to care. At all. In fact, one of my child’s teachers was overheard on one Monday this spring IN A NAIL SALON saying that she can only get her nails done on Monday because that’s “her day.” Get your house in order APS![/quote]

How about you spend a day in mine?  I’m an APS teacher.  No one I know is punishing kids for issues in Canvas.  That’s a bunch of malarkey.   I have never been more lenient with late work and that kind of thing.   If one of my students communicates any kind of tech issue, I do everything I can to help them.  I’ll take an assignment over email, Google, whatever, and everyone I know does, too.   I put in crazy hours this year.  It has gotten so much better in this last month or so, but I was consistently working 12-15, sometimes 18, hour days.  There were a lot of days I never left my house.  I have my own kids, too.  I wasn’t able to help them with virtual school,  but my kids’ teachers were awesome.

One Monday, I dipped out to Costco at lunch time because it’s more efficient without the crowds, and ran into a neighbor.  I’m pretty sure she told half our zip code that that’s what we do, because she’s like that. The same woman has always complained about APS, her kids teachers, the curriculum, everything.  There are 2000 teachers in APS.  I think quality of the staff is excellent, but you may have some variation in 2000.  Also… that sounds like a rumor.  You heard that, huh?

Junior year is a tough year.  I see a lot of the kids overload themselves with AP classes, and then complain about the workload. Some of them have crazy schedules, and I don’t understand how they think they can do all of that.  Some of them don’t seem ready for an AP class to me, but they take them, anyway.    I don’t know if that’s the case here, but I do see that.

After how hard we’ve all worked this year, it really offends me when I hear people just bash APS.  I am proud of the district I work in, and where my kids go to school.

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