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Tannia's speech was on 4/22/2021, APS survey conducted at same exact time:
https://www.apsva.us/post/superintendents-may-11-return-to-school-update/

Great spin on that June 2020 survey - 42% chose all in-person and 37% chose hybrid while 10% chose remote.[/quote]

I cited the wrong survey!  Hey, sorry about that!

But I don't think this survey says what you think it says.  Do you remember that school board meeting from April 2021?  Several members from APE were there and were furious that schools were not open full time RIGHT THEN, despite the fact that this would have disadvantaged members of the minority community who weren't ready for a full return because their kids still in hybrid or at home would have received less attention from the teachers than the kids who showed up in person.  A few APE members even brought their kids and had their kids lecture the school board on opening the schools -- remember how fun that was?  Then members of the Hispanic community got up to speak and talked about wanting to keep things as they were for now, and APE members shouted them down at the end.  That was really nice.  Just another fun day in Arlington, acting like reasonable adults at School Board meetings in front of our children, who no doubt will be just like us some day.  Ahh, what a life!

The survey you cite did not ask parents what they wanted to do for the last month and a half of school at the end of that year.  It asked what they wanted to do this year!  And guess what, nearly EVERYBODY -- SR, APE, minorities, etc -- wanted to come back to school in person!  APS did not ask in that survey what folks wanted to do for the rest of that school year, but it was clear from that Board Meeting that many certainly did NOT want to do what APE wanted, and switch schedules around with a month of school left.  That was crazy no matter how sad and stern the APE children were.  So you're misrepresenting what happened in the meeting and what happened in the survey.  The survey responses were not agreeing with APE from the meeting, and plenty of people at the meeting expressed their disagreement with APE at the time.  People wanted kids to return to a more normal school year this year -- which is what we did despite APE's constant gripes that SR would find some way to foil everyone's return to school -- but many were simply not equipped to and did not support APE's desire to send the some kids back to school five days/week for four or five weeks at the end of last year while others had classes from home.[/quote]

How do you know?  APS never re-surveyed families and refused to do so.  The best info is that survey they completed at that exact time she was making the speech.  And 95% wanted to come in person.

Notably, Falls Church City had resurveyed families and 99% of ES families chose to come back 5 days a week.  No reason it would be any different for APS; in fact, the survey conducted by APS at the almost same exact time showed almost the same exact results.

[i][b]This is an asymptomatic testing thread though[/b][/i], not a thread for your sad attempt at revisionist history.  We know how the history will be written for closed schools here already --&gt; it's going to be really bad for APS, the School Board, Tannia Talento and Smart Restart (including their international laughing stock Eric Ding, who advocated for closed schools while moving to Austria so his kid could attend school in person).

Asymptomatic testing is another overly broad measure that will keep healthy kids out of school, and hurt equity again.[/quote]

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