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[quote=Anonymous]Love the teachers, not loving the overall educational experience. Good teachers can’t make up the deficits caused by bad system-wide choices - overreliance on IPads and ed apps like Lexia and dream box,  bare minimum of instructional hours, overcrowded classrooms, no textbooks in core subjects.

Good things happening like structured literacy in k-3, new resource adoption in math and literacy. Proposal to reduce class sizes. But no money included for field trips next year; and a move towards practices that are described as being about equity, but sound like a race to the bottom. Way too many families using outside reading and math tutors because kids aren’t getting what they need in school (even before the pandemic, but so much worse now). And god forbid your child has any special needs. Again, well-meaning people can’t overcome the failures of planning that happen at Syphax (summer school, VLP). Maybe Durand will start to turn it around, but they need to acknowledge the problems if they are going to address them.

Pretty much the wealth in this county hides alot of the truth of APS. This article also reflects what we’re seeing at home:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2022/04/01/why-high-school-rigor-is-often-just-a-facade/

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