Anonymous wrote:Everyone should check out the VLP parents' letter posted to AEM.

There are 0 feasible solutions as to how APS can fix the problem. Are they supposed to remove the teachers from in-person and put them into virtual? Force concurrent on the 97.3% of students who are in-person?

I do agree with them on the School Talk email that did not mention problems with the virtual program, plus silence from Duran and the School Board. These issues could have been communicated to the public if we had a School Board that had asked questions at School Board meetings about how this program would work, including at the last SB meeting a few weeks ago (where no questions were asked).

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should check out the VLP parents' letter posted to AEM.

There are 0 feasible solutions as to how APS can fix the problem. Are they supposed to remove the teachers from in-person and put them into virtual? Force concurrent on the 97.3% of students who are in-person?

I do agree with them on the School Talk email that did not mention problems with the virtual program, plus silence from Duran and the School Board. These issues could have been communicated to the public if we had a School Board that had asked questions at School Board meetings about how this program would work, including at the last SB meeting a few weeks ago (where no questions were asked).

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Anonymous wrote:It's not misinformation.

My friend tried VV with an IEP kid. Didn't work at all.

Explain how you get services from your home school if you have dyslexia and get your English class through VV please.

It's obv you don't care about sped kids.

Are you sure that's not just virtual learning in general? It was awful last year for many, many IEP kids. VLP isn't magic. It can't make virtual learning match in person. It just can't.

Well that's a separate issue. VV says explicitly that it won't administer IEPs.

Those are done through your local home school, just like if you go to private school you'll get ISP services through your local home school. The federal government still requires these services be provided.

Don't let the "let's not follow the science" non-medical VLP parents gaslight you (who are the vast, vast majority of VLP parents - medical students are probably only around every 1 out of 13 or 14 VLP students if you compare the program to Fairfax).

Oh please. You don't seem to have any understanding of how IEPs actually work in real life or how students with disabilities actually function in real life.

People usually resort to ad hominem attacks when they can't address the substance.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty clear you have an agenda to defund and shrink the virtual program in APS. Truly sad.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not misinformation.

My friend tried VV with an IEP kid. Didn't work at all.

Explain how you get services from your home school if you have dyslexia and get your English class through VV please.

It's obv you don't care about sped kids.

Are you sure that's not just virtual learning in general? It was awful last year for many, many IEP kids. VLP isn't magic. It can't make virtual learning match in person. It just can't.

Well that's a separate issue. VV says explicitly that it won't administer IEPs.

Those are done through your local home school, just like if you go to private school you'll get ISP services through your local home school. The federal government still requires these services be provided.

Don't let the "let's not follow the science" non-medical VLP parents gaslight you (who are the vast, vast majority of VLP parents - medical students are probably only around every 1 out of 13 or 14 VLP students if you compare the program to Fairfax).

Oh please. You don't seem to have any understanding of how IEPs actually work in real life or how students with disabilities actually function in real life.

Anonymous wrote:Pretty clear you have an agenda to defund and shrink the virtual program in APS. Truly sad.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not misinformation.

My friend tried VV with an IEP kid. Didn't work at all.

Explain how you get services from your home school if you have dyslexia and get your English class through VV please.

It's obv you don't care about sped kids.

Are you sure that's not just virtual learning in general? It was awful last year for many, many IEP kids. VLP isn't magic. It can't make virtual learning match in person. It just can't.

Well that's a separate issue. VV says explicitly that it won't administer IEPs.

Those are done through your local home school, just like if you go to private school you'll get ISP services through your local home school. The federal government still requires these services be provided.

Don't let the "let's not follow the science" non-medical VLP parents gaslight you (who are the vast, vast majority of VLP parents - medical students are probably only around every 1 out of 13 or 14 VLP students if you compare the program to Fairfax).

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Anonymous wrote:It's not misinformation.

My friend tried VV with an IEP kid. Didn't work at all.

Explain how you get services from your home school if you have dyslexia and get your English class through VV please.

It's obv you don't care about sped kids.

Are you sure that's not just virtual learning in general? It was awful last year for many, many IEP kids. VLP isn't magic. It can't make virtual learning match in person. It just can't.

Well that's a separate issue. VV says explicitly that it won't administer IEPs.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not misinformation.

My friend tried VV with an IEP kid. Didn't work at all.

Explain how you get services from your home school if you have dyslexia and get your English class through VV please.

It's obv you don't care about sped kids.

Are you sure that's not just virtual learning in general? It was awful last year for many, many IEP kids. VLP isn't magic. It can't make virtual learning match in person. It just can't.

Anonymous wrote:It's not misinformation.

My friend tried VV with an IEP kid. Didn't work at all.

Explain how you get services from your home school if you have dyslexia and get your English class through VV please.

It's obv you don't care about sped kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids still don't have schedules or teacher assignments. Kids of varying grades being put in "waiting rooms" to do nothing. What is going on? The communications from APS are woefully inadequate.

42 open VLP teaching positions on APS' Careers website. APS said at the townhall that they'd be using subs and third party providers (like Virtual Virginia).

FCPS limited their program to only those kids with certified medical reasons. Their program has 0.2% enrollment of student body whereas APS currently has 3%. And I haven't heard of any issues with FCPS' program.

Who is hurting by APS opening the program to those parents who don't follow the science that school is safe? Those APS kids who have certified medical reasons to be in the program!

Notably, 17 of those 42 VLP open teaching positions are for SPED. Don't wait to hear anything about this travesty from Arlington's Special Education Advisory Committee. Lunch Petitioner is highly involved in the committee and she and Ventilation Woman (and Smart Restart) had been pushing APS to open the Virtual Program to anyone who wanted to switch to virtual! APS prevented an even larger disaster by not listening to them.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia isn't looking so good either. Hospitalizations and cases at highest levels since February. Eeek.

https://bluevirginia.us/2021/09/monday-9-6-virginia-data-on-covid-19-with-delta-now-dominant-hospitalizations-1981-at-highest-level-since-mid-february-10-day-new-cases-32259-highest-since-mid-february

We have one of the highest vaccination rates in the country. You’re essentially saying vaccines don’t work. I’m sick of these COVID Doomers who are anti-vaxxers.

The virus is not going away. It’s either get vaccinated, get covid or lock yourself in your house the rest of your life (and work on your stationery business and posting about HEPA filters).

I think you're living in June 2021.

See, eg Israel. Highly vaccinated, had horrid time with Delta.

Yes, the vast majority of people got breakthrough infections got the equivalent of a cold (if they were even symptomatic at all). The vaccines worked very well. Interesting to see COVID doomers now claiming vaccines don't work.

Elderly and obese people did have a few issues (just as they did with COVID pre-vaccine).

I guess you don't have kids under 12. Some of us do.

I do. They are at less risk of COVID than the flu or riding in a car. They're at less risk than a vaccinated 35 year old - meaning, they're at less risk of COVID unvaccinated than both of their vaccinated parents.

We don't mask except where legally required. We enjoy indoor dining all of the time. After seeing the energy of the crowd at the college football this weekend, we're going to make a game this fall too.

Most people have returned to normal life, just like we do for other endemic viruses.

+1000

DH and I make it our personal mission to normalize being maskless in Arlington. So satisfying when you see masked people see you or your kids maskless, then you later see them without a mask.

The purpose of vaccinating adults was to return to normal. The UK doesn’t even vaccinate 12-15 year old because they’re at such low risk.