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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I voted for Miranda. My takeaway from this is that many people in Arlington really are fine with how APS has handled the pandemic. I find this ... curious. Arlington is a weird place. I used to really love living here, but now I think we are a strange microcosm of a place. There's a lot to love but also ... I still can't really believe that most people are OK with [b]APS providing very little instruction[/b] the past year.

And yes, yes, I know the teachers are working hard. I'm not blaming them. But virtual learning is so much a worse alternative than in-person, and other places have managed this so much better than Arlington, that's it's still a bit beyond me.

Most of Arlington is happy to leave schools part-time for three more weeks because it's the end of the year and, meh. Never mind that we have very little COVID in Arlington now and that those weeks could make a huge difference still for some of our kids ...

I just don't get it.[/quote]

My kids are in high school, and that was not our experience.

I have been shocked -- not surprised, because there have been plenty of indications that this is the case, but I didn't want to believe it -- by the indifference of affluent parents to the experiences and needs of less-affluent families. Plenty of people seemed to view the news that those parents weren't comfortable returning to school as a sign that they needed to be convinced, not the the better-off parents needed to think harder about what they were asking for. And when told that APS needed a consistent approach to opening across schools, parents who had just been ranting that remote learning is garbage and we can't do that to children were suddenly of the opinion that families that wanted to choose remote should just do that and let other people choose differently.

It was gross. [/quote]

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