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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 APS providing very little instruction 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]

You find it curious that people don't think exactly like you do? Really?[/quote]

I expect individuals to disagree with me, of course. But that Arlington en masse is really just shrugging its shoulders and OK with this school year? Yes, I find that kind of shocking.[/quote]

Personally, I thought the pandemic really sucked - including the impacts to education. But I think APS had a reasonable plan and did its best under the circumstances. They just couldn't pivot from model to model, making huge changes to staffing/classrooms/transportation within a few weeks. So if the vaccine was available earlier and the surge started to subside earlier and the CDC recommendations had already changes back in Jan/Feb then we could have gotten to 5 days. But the timing didn't work out given that all of those pieces fell into place so late in the year.

I do expect a strong plan for the fall for recovery. Guess we will see how they do on that. 
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