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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It amazes me how parents complain about overcrowding, but want these same overcrowded schools to open. Where do they think the kids are going to space out?  Do you think the 600+ student body elementary schools, or any middle and HS have the space to spread out?

Where are you going to get the buses from?  In the summer they showed how there weren't enough buses and hours to get the kids to school, even with hybrid.  And, while many said their kids would walk or they’d do drop off, bussing is required. It’s part of the whole free and accessible concept.

Finally, perhaps many of the ‘stay online’ parents have found a resource that allows their kids to attend school and they can go to work- be it a pod where families take turns hosting, or a child care facility that offers DL time. To move to a hybrid would likely create challenges to many families if there isn’t after care, or buses aren’t available to take to programs.

This whole school year sucks. It sucks for everyone. Every kid is getting less than they would in a classroom. Every parent is becoming burnt out by the stress and demand of home, work, and school.   But let’s makes this about the unfair burden the poor folk of Arlington are putting on everyone because of ‘equity’. [/quote]

I sure hope you are not a teacher. The attack on parents that simply care about their kids' mental health and education is pathetic. My family moved to Arlington specifically because of the "top notch" public school system. APS is showing it's true colors and is anything but that. [/quote]

PP here...  nope not a teacher. Parent of a kid in an overcrowded school who has sat through countless re-zoning school board meetings. Who has listened to parents say ‘but my school is already near capacity.’  Who has watched as many of the parents who want schools to reopen don’t want the kids being school in temporary classrooms brought to their schools. I watched another near capacity school have ‘walk your kids to school days’ to show they didn’t need buses and shouldn’t be re-zoned.

It’s not an attack in parents. It’s a reality that APS lacks foresight to adequately plan for population increases and migration. (Like the potential housing boom in Crystal and Pentagon City with no ES nearby). They can’t find appropriate space and resources for all of our kids in a non-pandemic, how will they do so now?  Sure it has great schools. It’s why we live here. But it also has management and oversight issues. They’ve never hidden their true colors, especially if you’re in one of the schools with a low  Great Schools ‘ranking’.

The School Board is an unchecked system. And they bully people into paying for their lack of planning and oversight. ‘If you don’t pass this bond we’re going to cut theses programs for your kids instead of readjusting our overinflated budget with what should be low priority construction’.  Disagree?  Look at the state of some ES that have trailers and the like. Then look at their Syphax building. And they listen to the loudest voices in the room (see myriad re-zoning meetings).

All that said, we love our schools. We love our teachers. We think schools should reopen. But it shouldn’t be because the loudest voices in the room bullied APS into doing so. And if all APS schools cannot be reopened at the same levels, then should any?[/quote]

I've been wondering if APS needs 2 Superintendents. It's too big of a school system for the way the SB works now. Or at the very least, a professional consulting firm specializing in complex school systems, if one exists. Either way, what we have now is not working, and not what our tax dollars should demand. [/quote]

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