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Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here- Dr Duran is great. He is demonstrating that he is committed to retaining good teachers and he is repeatedly shown that he is hearing feedback from teachers loud and clear. He has an impossible job with some of the toughest parents in the DMV. He is never going to make everyone happy and of course, in hindsight, APS should have handled certain aspects of the pandemic differently. But he is an intelligent, compassionate and forward-thinking guy. I don’t think it’s fair to tear him down before he has gotten a chance to focus on things besides Covid.

It was decided in August 2020 that virtual school for all grades was going to be the solution to the pandemic and here we are in 2022 where we are still fretting over whether school will go virtual again. No differentiation in planning contingencies for the pre-k to 2nd and special needs students vs. older kids. Actually we haven’t had much communicated to us at all about how possible staffing shortages will be handled. I fully expect APS to be caught with its pants down and canceling school with 12 hours notice with no plan in place. I’m not sure how any of this is forward thinking.

Duran is not fretting; YOU/parents are fretting.

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Anonymous wrote:I like him. Sorry!

So you were pleased with how he handled summer school last summer? You think he did a good job with VLP? You like how he distributed teacher vaccines in January 2021? You are a big fan of his choice to provide zero supports other than Lexia to catch up kids who are behind?

Speaking of fiction.

Yeah- that’s true, too. I think there are other supports besides Lexia. I think vaccine distribution went fine.

If you think vaccine distribution went fine, then you either don't know any teachers or have amnesia.

Haha- I am a teacher! And I know a lot them. How many times have you distributed vaccines to 3,000 people? We’re all vaxxed now. It was fine. You’re like looking past the entire forest, AT a tree.

My daughter's elementary school teacher sobbed through an entire parent teacher conference because she was going to have to teach in person before she was fully vaxxed. She was both furious and terrified.

I hated the position teachers were put in, but this is nonsense and unprofessional. Sobbing to a parent in a conference? Good lord.

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Anonymous wrote:I like him. Sorry!

So you were pleased with how he handled summer school last summer? You think he did a good job with VLP? You like how he distributed teacher vaccines in January 2021? You are a big fan of his choice to provide zero supports other than Lexia to catch up kids who are behind?

Speaking of fiction.

Yeah- that’s true, too. I think there are other supports besides Lexia. I think vaccine distribution went fine.

If you think vaccine distribution went fine, then you either don't know any teachers or have amnesia.

Duran is not responsible for VDH putting a shot in your arm.

Anonymous wrote:He means well and is a smart guy. I do worry about who advises him and about all the new hiring for central office. Plus the fact so many in upper management have left and been replaced with outsiders who come from districts very different from ours. I still would give him a chance and have him stay to show what he can do under normal circumstances.

I agree but still think he should be fired for not firing Loft.

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Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here- Dr Duran is great. He is demonstrating that he is committed to retaining good teachers and he is repeatedly shown that he is hearing feedback from teachers loud and clear. He has an impossible job with some of the toughest parents in the DMV. He is never going to make everyone happy and of course, in hindsight, APS should have handled certain aspects of the pandemic differently. But he is an intelligent, compassionate and forward-thinking guy. I don’t think it’s fair to tear him down before he has gotten a chance to focus on things besides Covid.

Like students?

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Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here- Dr Duran is great. He is demonstrating that he is committed to retaining good teachers and he is repeatedly shown that he is hearing feedback from teachers loud and clear. He has an impossible job with some of the toughest parents in the DMV. He is never going to make everyone happy and of course, in hindsight, APS should have handled certain aspects of the pandemic differently. But he is an intelligent, compassionate and forward-thinking guy. I don’t think it’s fair to tear him down before he has gotten a chance to focus on things besides Covid.

Like students?

Anonymous wrote:APS teacher here- Dr Duran is great. He is demonstrating that he is committed to retaining good teachers and he is repeatedly shown that he is hearing feedback from teachers loud and clear. He has an impossible job with some of the toughest parents in the DMV. He is never going to make everyone happy and of course, in hindsight, APS should have handled certain aspects of the pandemic differently. But he is an intelligent, compassionate and forward-thinking guy. I don’t think it’s fair to tear him down before he has gotten a chance to focus on things besides Covid.

It was decided in August 2020 that virtual school for all grades was going to be the solution to the pandemic and here we are in 2022 where we are still fretting over whether school will go virtual again. No differentiation in planning contingencies for the pre-k to 2nd and special needs students vs. older kids. Actually we haven’t had much communicated to us at all about how possible staffing shortages will be handled. I fully expect APS to be caught with its pants down and canceling school with 12 hours notice with no plan in place. I’m not sure how any of this is forward thinking.

APS teacher here- Dr Duran is great. He is demonstrating that he is committed to retaining good teachers and he is repeatedly shown that he is hearing feedback from teachers loud and clear. He has an impossible job with some of the toughest parents in the DMV. He is never going to make everyone happy and of course, in hindsight, APS should have handled certain aspects of the pandemic differently. But he is an intelligent, compassionate and forward-thinking guy. I don’t think it’s fair to tear him down before he has gotten a chance to focus on things besides Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:I like him. Sorry!

So you were pleased with how he handled summer school last summer? You think he did a good job with VLP? You like how he distributed teacher vaccines in January 2021? You are a big fan of his choice to provide zero supports other than Lexia to catch up kids who are behind?

Speaking of fiction.

Yeah- that’s true, too. I think there are other supports besides Lexia. I think vaccine distribution went fine.

If you think vaccine distribution went fine, then you either don't know any teachers or have amnesia.

Haha- I am a teacher! And I know a lot them. How many times have you distributed vaccines to 3,000 people? We’re all vaxxed now. It was fine. You’re like looking past the entire forest, AT a tree.

My daughter's elementary school teacher sobbed through an entire parent teacher conference because she was going to have to teach in person before she was fully vaxxed. She was both furious and terrified.

Oh, and remember the aids who had been teaching special needs kids in person for months who ended up at the end of the line because they released slots during school hours?

You people are truly nuts.

He didn’t run the vaccine program. The county did. The public health department.

A teacher crying during a parent teacher conference about having to return to in-person work without a vaccine after half the world had done so months ago just sums it up though. Totally inappropriate on every freaking level.

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Anonymous wrote:I like him. Sorry!

So you were pleased with how he handled summer school last summer? You think he did a good job with VLP? You like how he distributed teacher vaccines in January 2021? You are a big fan of his choice to provide zero supports other than Lexia to catch up kids who are behind?

Speaking of fiction.

Yeah- that’s true, too. I think there are other supports besides Lexia. I think vaccine distribution went fine.

If you think vaccine distribution went fine, then you either don't know any teachers or have amnesia.

Haha- I am a teacher! And I know a lot them. How many times have you distributed vaccines to 3,000 people? We’re all vaxxed now. It was fine. You’re like looking past the entire forest, AT a tree.

My daughter's elementary school teacher sobbed through an entire parent teacher conference because she was going to have to teach in person before she was fully vaxxed. She was both furious and terrified.

Oh, and remember the aids who had been teaching special needs kids in person for months who ended up at the end of the line because they released slots during school hours?

I agree. That was bad. I also understand that he is the head of a large organization, and coordinating that may not have been something he did personally.

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Anonymous wrote:He means well and is a smart guy. I do worry about who advises him and about all the new hiring for central office. Plus the fact so many in upper management have left and been replaced with outsiders who come from districts very different from ours. I still would give him a chance and have him stay to show what he can do under normal circumstances.

I like him, but I will concede that their are WAY too many central office admin positions. I would trade a bunch of them for teachers. The circumstances have indeed, been unusual.

“There” are!

Anonymous wrote:He means well and is a smart guy. I do worry about who advises him and about all the new hiring for central office. Plus the fact so many in upper management have left and been replaced with outsiders who come from districts very different from ours. I still would give him a chance and have him stay to show what he can do under normal circumstances.

I like him, but I will concede that their are WAY too many central office admin positions. I would trade a bunch of them for teachers. The circumstances have indeed, been unusual.

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Anonymous wrote:I like him. Sorry!

So you were pleased with how he handled summer school last summer? You think he did a good job with VLP? You like how he distributed teacher vaccines in January 2021? You are a big fan of his choice to provide zero supports other than Lexia to catch up kids who are behind?

Speaking of fiction.

Yeah- that’s true, too. I think there are other supports besides Lexia. I think vaccine distribution went fine.

If you think vaccine distribution went fine, then you either don't know any teachers or have amnesia.

Haha- I am a teacher! And I know a lot them. How many times have you distributed vaccines to 3,000 people? We’re all vaxxed now. It was fine. You’re like looking past the entire forest, AT a tree.

My daughter's elementary school teacher sobbed through an entire parent teacher conference because she was going to have to teach in person before she was fully vaxxed. She was both furious and terrified.

That’s a little extreme. Did she have at least one shot? I was on it, and I was fully vaxxed before going back.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like him. Sorry!

So you were pleased with how he handled summer school last summer? You think he did a good job with VLP? You like how he distributed teacher vaccines in January 2021? You are a big fan of his choice to provide zero supports other than Lexia to catch up kids who are behind?

Speaking of fiction.

Yeah- that’s true, too. I think there are other supports besides Lexia. I think vaccine distribution went fine.

If you think vaccine distribution went fine, then you either don't know any teachers or have amnesia.

Haha- I am a teacher! And I know a lot them. How many times have you distributed vaccines to 3,000 people? We’re all vaxxed now. It was fine. You’re like looking past the entire forest, AT a tree.

My daughter's elementary school teacher sobbed through an entire parent teacher conference because she was going to have to teach in person before she was fully vaxxed. She was both furious and terrified.

Oh, and remember the aids who had been teaching special needs kids in person for months who ended up at the end of the line because they released slots during school hours?

He means well and is a smart guy. I do worry about who advises him and about all the new hiring for central office. Plus the fact so many in upper management have left and been replaced with outsiders who come from districts very different from ours. I still would give him a chance and have him stay to show what he can do under normal circumstances.