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Anonymous wrote:Push forward while FFX steps back. Arlington is pathetic with vaccine administration. Yes. The superintendent has gone mad.

You’ll get over it.

Not if I'm dead.

Then quit you job and do something else. Absolutely no one if forcing you to stay in your position.

But then who will watch the children that no one forced to you have?

Are you saying teachers are glorified babysitters?

Glorified? No. We are seen as overpaid babysitters.

OMG. Enough with this rhetoric already. Virginia is a mandatory education state. This means, the law requires parents to send their kids to school. When you couple that with the very high cost of living in this region, you have families that have organized their finances and lives around the expectation that their children will attend school regularly. You cannot expect working parents to be able to fluidly shift in to full time childcare/co-teaching with zero stress or issues.

This argument is so riddled with false logic, it's honestly insane that people continue to perpetuate it. Use whatever brain cells you have left and be better.

DP. As a parent I find your comment infuriating.

Yes, I do expect that after the first 4 months (March, April, May, June) and then the WHOLE summer, you should have been able to figure this out before August that you needed childcare and then had a plan for it. That you're still complaining about it is completely annoying and buttresses the teachers' points. I think it is completely stupid that anyone is contemplating going back into the school building right now and I think the only reason you're pushing for it is because you are so disorganized and scattered that you deserve the chaos you're in.

The rest of us parents figured it out. The fact that you didn't is on you. Don't make some poor teacher work in an unsafe environment because you're an idiot. Sheesh.

Please explain to us your plan, then we can figure out if it would scale across the district/region.

PP, can you tell us your plan to see how the rest of us may apply it? How much does it cost, does it involve having nearby family willing to help, does it involve a WFH and or SAH dynamic?

So PP, any thoughts you'd be willing to share on this great plan you pulled together over the summer? I know you think we're all idiots, so help us out please.

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Anonymous wrote:Push forward while FFX steps back. Arlington is pathetic with vaccine administration. Yes. The superintendent has gone mad.

You’ll get over it.

Not if I'm dead.

Then quit you job and do something else. Absolutely no one if forcing you to stay in your position.

But then who will watch the children that no one forced to you have?

Are you saying teachers are glorified babysitters?

Glorified? No. We are seen as overpaid babysitters.

OMG. Enough with this rhetoric already. Virginia is a mandatory education state. This means, the law requires parents to send their kids to school. When you couple that with the very high cost of living in this region, you have families that have organized their finances and lives around the expectation that their children will attend school regularly. You cannot expect working parents to be able to fluidly shift in to full time childcare/co-teaching with zero stress or issues.

This argument is so riddled with false logic, it's honestly insane that people continue to perpetuate it. Use whatever brain cells you have left and be better.

DP. As a parent I find your comment infuriating.

Yes, I do expect that after the first 4 months (March, April, May, June) and then the WHOLE summer, you should have been able to figure this out before August that you needed childcare and then had a plan for it. That you're still complaining about it is completely annoying and buttresses the teachers' points. I think it is completely stupid that anyone is contemplating going back into the school building right now and I think the only reason you're pushing for it is because you are so disorganized and scattered that you deserve the chaos you're in.

The rest of us parents figured it out. The fact that you didn't is on you. Don't make some poor teacher work in an unsafe environment because you're an idiot. Sheesh.

Please explain to us your plan, then we can figure out if it would scale across the district/region.

PP, can you tell us your plan to see how the rest of us may apply it? How much does it cost, does it involve having nearby family willing to help, does it involve a WFH and or SAH dynamic?

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Anonymous wrote:Push forward while FFX steps back. Arlington is pathetic with vaccine administration. Yes. The superintendent has gone mad.

You’ll get over it.

Not if I'm dead.

Then quit you job and do something else. Absolutely no one if forcing you to stay in your position.

But then who will watch the children that no one forced to you have?

Are you saying teachers are glorified babysitters?

Glorified? No. We are seen as overpaid babysitters.

OMG. Enough with this rhetoric already. Virginia is a mandatory education state. This means, the law requires parents to send their kids to school. When you couple that with the very high cost of living in this region, you have families that have organized their finances and lives around the expectation that their children will attend school regularly. You cannot expect working parents to be able to fluidly shift in to full time childcare/co-teaching with zero stress or issues.

This argument is so riddled with false logic, it's honestly insane that people continue to perpetuate it. Use whatever brain cells you have left and be better.

DP. As a parent I find your comment infuriating.

Yes, I do expect that after the first 4 months (March, April, May, June) and then the WHOLE summer, you should have been able to figure this out before August that you needed childcare and then had a plan for it. That you're still complaining about it is completely annoying and buttresses the teachers' points. I think it is completely stupid that anyone is contemplating going back into the school building right now and I think the only reason you're pushing for it is because you are so disorganized and scattered that you deserve the chaos you're in.

The rest of us parents figured it out. The fact that you didn't is on you. Don't make some poor teacher work in an unsafe environment because you're an idiot. Sheesh.

Please explain to us your plan, then we can figure out if it would scale across the district/region.

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Anonymous wrote:Push forward while FFX steps back. Arlington is pathetic with vaccine administration. Yes. The superintendent has gone mad.

You’ll get over it.

Not if I'm dead.

Then quit you job and do something else. Absolutely no one if forcing you to stay in your position.

But then who will watch the children that no one forced to you have?

Are you saying teachers are glorified babysitters?

Glorified? No. We are seen as overpaid babysitters.

OMG. Enough with this rhetoric already. Virginia is a mandatory education state. This means, the law requires parents to send their kids to school. When you couple that with the very high cost of living in this region, you have families that have organized their finances and lives around the expectation that their children will attend school regularly. You cannot expect working parents to be able to fluidly shift in to full time childcare/co-teaching with zero stress or issues.

This argument is so riddled with false logic, it's honestly insane that people continue to perpetuate it. Use whatever brain cells you have left and be better.

DP. As a parent I find your comment infuriating.

Yes, I do expect that after the first 4 months (March, April, May, June) and then the WHOLE summer, you should have been able to figure this out before August that you needed childcare and then had a plan for it. That you're still complaining about it is completely annoying and buttresses the teachers' points. I think it is completely stupid that anyone is contemplating going back into the school building right now and I think the only reason you're pushing for it is because you are so disorganized and scattered that you deserve the chaos you're in.

The rest of us parents figured it out. The fact that you didn't is on you. Don't make some poor teacher work in an unsafe environment because you're an idiot. Sheesh.

1. We did have a plan figured out, until it wasn't working for our lower elementary child. And we have recently switched. APS also has also done a bait and switch several times now re: return to school. You CANNOT fault parents for not being able to plan accordingly when the plans are constantly changing and goalposts consistently moving. Or are you magically able to find a program that is happy to offer your child a full time virtual learning day camp spot, or, better yet, someone who can safely come to your house to supervise your child's learning on an as needed basis, ready to upend their employment on a dime when you need to pivot with APS' shifts? You must have some domestic hiring wizardry that the rest of us do not possess.

2. Is APS (and the rest of the DMV cruising along with this insanity) uniquely responsible for having the best plan for this? How do you justify being closed since March when countless other public and private schools across the country, and globe, have brought kids back for in person learning? I'll wait.