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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG Could we please have even one post that is not about APE or Smart Restart? It is the year of our lord 2023.

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We’re discussing teachers. Parental disrespect & bullying of teachers is a relevant & ongoing issue. It’s not the only factor but it surely plays a part. 
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Hmm funny thing.  A lot of teachers speak at school board meetings.  They’ve complained about Duran’s leadership,  his cabinet,  all the paid days off that syphax is getting, class sizes, compensation, caseloads, and so on.  Not a single one has said “help us with mean parents”.[/quote]

The APE nutters went after the teachers who did speak up, contacted their principals, threatened their jobs.

And you think teachers will continue to speak out publicly about those parents after that?[/quote]

Clearly you have made it your sole focus and mission to raise the anti-APE flag to rehash 2020-2021 in every single conversation. If you would devote half as much passion to 2023, maybe you could be effective and beneficial in addressing the current problems and moving APS forward. As long as you keep focused on 2020 and work to keep everyone divided into anti-APE or MAGA extremists, APS will keep sliding downhill without the appropriate parental/community pushback. I'm neither of those two groups - never was; but because I won't keep focusing on 2020, I'm sure you'll just decide I'm APE and therefore nothing I say or believe matters because I'm anti-teacher and anti-kid and anti-whatever. Please, please, please....give it a rest! Your life will improve![/quote]

APE is unfortunately very relevant to 2023. You are correct that my life, and the lives of many others, would improve if APE would just go away. But they have not. They are more relevant than ever. Their founder is about to be on the school board, and their other leaders are taking over the APS advisory committees. APE has a vision to remake APS in their image with their values and they are executing that plan. We ignore them at our peril.

Unless in fact you agree with them, which it seems you may.[/quote]

I don't follow APE closely and only occasionally read their newsletters, which I find very good overall and not written in a slanted way that is pushing a particular moral agenda. I'm not suggesting anyone ignore anyone. I'm suggesting people drop the huge brick walls they've put up and stop accusing anyone who doesn't agree with them 100% on any particular issue of being APE or MAGA or anti-teacher or anti-trans or homophobic or whatever.

I didn't say your life would be better if APE went away. I said your life would be better if you stopped focusing all your time and energy on bringing them up at every possible - and even invented - opportunity. I'm middle-of-the-road and am generally glad to have some different perspectives in the conversation, even if I don't agree with them. I don't agree with the extreme lefties on everything, either. Doesn't make me an APE-er.[/quote]

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This!!![/quote]

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