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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For kids who think public school is horrible this year. I promise (from a teacher perspective at least) private school is also horrible. I have a number of friends that teach at private school and they are miserable this year (2 of them are leaving teaching all together at the end of the year). It is not like private school kids magically know how to behave better than public school kids. And it is not like private school teachers get amazing support from Admin just because they are private. This year has been a lot.

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But doesn't this relate to whether schools were open or closed last year? We switched to Catholic which was open close to normal last year, and my kids are having a great school year this year. I'm so glad we didn't send them back into APS, which I think is going to take many, many, many years to recover from having been closed for so long last year. Arlington did so much harm to kids in the way it handled COVID, and we are going to be seeing that for a very long time. And APS still won't admit that it made a huge mistake in how it handled things, worst in the region, I believe, and our region overall was among the worst in the nation.[/quote]

I mean maybe, but my friends teach at schools that were open last year and the one I know that is having the worst time is teaching kinder. So those wouldn't have been impacted by school closures last year. I know kids in private now that are struggling still even with schools being open last year. I am just saying it is not a fix for everything. Kids went through trauma during the pandemic even if schools were closed. Parents were under stress and kids felt that and it impacted them.

Now all that being said. My kids are in public at APS. We had a bit of a rocky start socially. Academically things were fine and everything is great now and my kids love school, just took a little longer than normal to get into the groove. Yes, there are kids struggling at APS but there are also plenty of kids doing fine.

If people don't like APS that is fine. Feel free to leave. I just think it is weird to ask like those of us who stayed have doomed our kids. [/quote]

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