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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Duran has engendered zero teacher trust that he's taking appropriate safety or HR measures.  Every transition has left teachers panicked and frustrated.

As a few examples, the teacher vaccine roll out was a mess.  APS review of teacher exemptions from in person teaching for health reasons was a huge mess.  The roll out out virtual learning was a huge technical disaster.  APS bought crappy filters for the classrooms and didn't tell teachers how to use them.  APS has left every school set their own covid policies so whether a school is "safe" depends on the reasonability of that principal and advocacy by teachers and parents.  Duran doesn't get credible scientific input and set evidence based standards.  They're all over the place.  Oh, and don't forget the summer school debacle.  That was a mess.  Plus VLP.

He's also done absolutely nothing to try to catch kids up after failing test scores.  Lexia and Dreambox don't cut it.  [/quote]

On the filters, what can we do to fix this? Why is there so much resistance to improving ventilation and filtration?[/quote]

Because the current ventilation and filtration has been in place and there has been nothing to suggest it isn't sufficient.  I don't know if that's the reason but it seems logical.  They did some improvements, brought in some air filters, and it doesn't seem to make a difference one way or the other.  Also, you can't expect a school system to just follow someone who has complied stats and information pulled from places on line. They have to actual hire professionals to assess. I think they did that and the professional opinion came back as the measures they put in place were ok. You can't expect them to keep hiring additional professionals over and over to just confirm what the previous professional told them. [/quote]

As for ventilation and filtration, they also talked to one of the leading experts in the world on this topic, Dr. Joseph Allen of Harvard and that was last spring before widespread vaccination.  But hey, some people trust a woman with an at home business stationary company who thinks COVID is Ebola and that COVID eradication is possible. I can see why they went with Dr. Allen.[/quote]

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