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And I still don't understand how this differs from what is happening at the other middle schools in APS. Don't they all have some form of block scheduling? If it's such a bad idea for the kids of WMS, why isn't it a bad idea generally? What makes the students at WMS different? Why aren't all the schools employing the same schedules? They allegedly have the same curriculum, no? [/quote]

One school has it for 6th graders but not 7th and 8th.

Swanson tried block scheduling years ago and went back to a standard schedule.

Our kids aren't zoned for Williamsburg and I don't know the parent who's taking the lead on this, but I don't feel inclined to criticize him for objecting to a major change that he thinks is not in the interests of the children and which APS has been unable to defend. That inability to defend it only becomes more infuriating when there's this sort of Theatre of Community Buy-In in which administrators pretend to be interested in what teachers and parents have to say, then proceed to do what they were going to do anyway.

And I don't want to hear that change is hard or you can't please everyone. The point is, this is a change for no reason, with no benefit, and the people who are unhappy are the people most affected by it and their parents.

If the teachers had been pushing for it, I think the idea would have a lot more support. APS teachers are fantastic.

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I don't have a problem with anyone objecting to a change. But now this guy is on a vendetta, so I'm less inclined to trust what he says.[/quote]

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