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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are several problems with VPL.  One obvious problem I see, in looking at the teacher recruitment, is that it specifically says you can be reassigned to teach in a school building at any time.  So that means that you are signing on to teach wherever APS needs you, whether that be virtual or in-person.  Teaching virtually appears to be a very different skill set than teaching in person.   There might be appropriate candidates outside the geographic area who have the skill set to teach virtually- but APS is restricting the candidate pool to those who are able to teach virtually or in-person.

Another failure I see is that APS is pretending that virtual is 'equivalent' to in person.  It's not and never can be.  The 'equivalent' to in-person would be home bound instruction.  This has existed for a long time for children who, for a variety of reasons, can't attend school in person.   Those children who have a medical necessity to not come to school would be vastly better served by home bound instruction, rather than by being thrown into a 'virtual' class with a substitute.   [/quote]

Yes, I almost forgot about this medical hospital school program.  It was though to get approved before covid so know if they used this home bound program the student certainly needed it. A doctor had to verify need and it can be medical or behavioral health related,but severe enough to warrant in home instruction. In home services for OT,PT, nursing m. home health aide has resumed so this is probably up and running too. If a family has more than 1 child they can use the same teacher for all subjects as well. All others may want to consider other options. I am a parent of a child with IEP and know how it feels to be stuck as last year I would have ran to private had it not been for the IEP. We are happy to be in person again and will feel better when our DS is eligible for vaccine. This why Im saying we should include behavioral health reasons also in addition to medical.

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