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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do they stand on boundary changes and dealing with facilities? Now that we’re not in a pandemic and the issue is not whether to have in-person instruction, these are the issues that tend to ignite passions. [/quote]

I would like to know this too. The APE group that Miranda led was consistently against air quality and health upgrades to facilities so I would not expect much from Miranda on this. [/quote]

I don't believe APE was against any of those things. It is highly unrealistic to think APS would be able to implement all the "upgrades" SOME people/person were insisting must happen fully before any student ever be let back into a building even to pick up something they may have left in their locker before shutdown. APE (rightly) understood that schools needed to open. That doesn't mean they were anti-health upgrades. Those AEM people insisting schools shouldn't reopen until everything in the facilities was perfect.....were they out in the streets saying the same about stores and gyms bars and restaurants and churches? Are they accusing everyone who supported reopening those things of being "anti health upgrades" or teacher haters?[/quote]

[b]APE kept saying we don't need this or we don't need that, just open now without any of those things. Kept insisting they were not needed, downplayed Covid by saying kids don't spread it, or it doesn't hurt kids, or long covid isn't a thing. All the lies.

And then they noticeably would not even support masks during the mask wars of Jan 2021. [/b]

so yes we know how they feel about health measures.[/quote]

Ummm in hindsight they were correct. [/quote]

Oh come on, this again? No APE was 100 WRONG. APE claimed Covid doesn't spread in schools, kids don't get it, kids can't spread it, etc, etc. This was pre vaccine and pre treatment. Teachers were dying in other places where schools were open without good mitigation. I would never listen to or trust anyone in APE on health matters after all of that.

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Fundamentally they were saying schools could and should be open, and they were correct. You’re on the wrong side of history on this one. [/quote]

Based on insufficient data and without regard for many complicating factors - no vaccines, winter surge, etc.

We were all there and remember how irrational and irate they were. Many schools, including APS, prioritized the health of the community during a deadly global pandemic. Once we had vaccines, the kids went back into the classroom. This was a very reasonable approach during this period. 
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I don’t believe APS would have opened full time in fall 2021 without state intervention. Same for masks in spring 2022.[/quote]

Well if you don't believe anything except for what Tucker tells you, there's not much we can do for you. [/quote]

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