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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can also see APE’s advocacy page, where they specifically advocate for adequate PPE (for which they’ve apparently been fundraising), and for infrastructure improvements to ensure schools are safe environments.  I hadn’t paid much attention to APE before this, but I’m actually really impressed by their approach to this.

http://arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/arlington-parents-for-education/our-advocacy/[/quote]

What I don't see is significant:  I don't see concern about enforcement for masks on kids 100% of the time and consequences for noncompliance, and I also don't see concern about enforcement for social distancing by kids 100% of the time and consequences for noncompliance.  When I start to see and hear more about what behaviors for kids are not acceptable, what the enforcement practices will be, and what the consequences will be for noncompliance, then I will start to give a hoot about APE.  Until then they can take a hike.[/quote]

There go those goalposts...

APE also doesn’t advocate for better federal coordination of vaccine distribution, but that doesn’t mean they oppose it. Try to remember that policy setting, particularly at the level of detail you’re addressing, is set by APS and not APE.[/quote]

That isn't moving the goalposts.  That is pointing out that the APE folks are two-faced.  They want everyone else to do the work but they aren't going to do it with their kids.  Don't you wonder what their kids are like in school?

I would bet the kids of APE parents are exactly the types of kids who will walk around with their masks on backwards ("What?  I AM WEARING MY MASK...backwards! &lt;hehaw hehaw&gt;") and then their parents will go ballistic if the school reprimands the kids.[/quote]

Based on the handful of APE members (and their kids) that I do know, you could not be more wrong.  But the next time my kids are riding scooters in the cul-de-sac with theirs and she is harping on all of the kids to make sure their masks are over their noses, I’ll show her this post and we’ll both have a good laugh.[/quote]

Awesome.  One down and xxx more to go.

(She actually admits to being an APE member?)[/quote]

I don’t know why you think she wouldn’t.  The majority of APS families specifically opted into hybrid (and that’s not including those who didn’t enter a selection and thus defaulted to hybrid), so their views are not out of step with the broader community.  They did make the Facebook group private, but that wasn’t because they’re ashamed to be members, it was a safety precaution after some AEM members used the publicly-available member list to track down and personally harass APE members.  I could understand after that incident why some APE members might be concerned about personal safety if the crazies find out that they are members, though.[/quote]

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