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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As much as I hate to admit it, I find DCUM illuminating at times.

I guess I am a unicorn, bc I live in NA but I am an "essential" worker and have never been able to stay home. 
 And, this year has been awful for my kids (and for me).  I also think we (and I mean locally) should have prioritized kids through the pandemic, and APS did not.  I know many on here will disagree and if you have had a great or even tolerable year where your kids did well, then great.  
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Maybe, but my kids had a tolerable year, and I think APS' longstanding shortcomings really showed themselves. So did the shortcomings of the privileged elements of the Arlington community.

APS has long screwed over kids with learning disabilities or other atypical traits. And although I guess some of those kids got back to school sooner than the average ATS kid, I wonder if it could have been sooner. I feel bad for those kids.

But the most vocal parents were the ones insisting since spring that we needed 5 days a week in person instruction. Occasionally there would be a proposal for at least one day, or getting a subset of kids back in person sooner, or having supervised pods at community centers, and the loudest (if not the largest, I don't know) voices would be parents saying "If you can do that, you can do five days a week in person for all students." There was a real failure on the part of the RTS crowd to think about exactly what elements of the traditional educational experience should be prioritized and for whom. And as long as they wanted to have their pre-pandemic lives back, they didn't seem to notice what was going wrong for other families unless they could use them as poster children.

I think APS could have done a better job of explaining why things had to be equal across schools and why it couldn't just do what private schools were doing. I'm not sure it would have calmed the hardcore RTS immediately if not sooner folks down, but it would have been a useful conversation for the rest of us. Maybe some of the people who started caring about mental health and learning disabilities would keep caring come September. [/quote]

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