Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 12:30     Subject: APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:I voted for Miranda. My takeaway from this is that many people in Arlington really are fine with how APS has handled the pandemic. I find this ... curious. Arlington is a weird place. I used to really love living here, but now I think we are a strange microcosm of a place. There's a lot to love but also ... I still can't really believe that most people are OK with APS providing very little instruction the past year.

And yes, yes, I know the teachers are working hard. I'm not blaming them. But virtual learning is so much a worse alternative than in-person, and other places have managed this so much better than Arlington, that's it's still a bit beyond me.

Most of Arlington is happy to leave schools part-time for three more weeks because it's the end of the year and, meh. Never mind that we have very little COVID in Arlington now and that those weeks could make a huge difference still for some of our kids ...

I just don't get it.


My kids are in high school, and that was not our experience.

I have been shocked -- not surprised, because there have been plenty of indications that this is the case, but I didn't want to believe it -- by the indifference of affluent parents to the experiences and needs of less-affluent families. Plenty of people seemed to view the news that those parents weren't comfortable returning to school as a sign that they needed to be convinced, not the the better-off parents needed to think harder about what they were asking for. And when told that APS needed a consistent approach to opening across schools, parents who had just been ranting that remote learning is garbage and we can't do that to children were suddenly of the opinion that families that wanted to choose remote should just do that and let other people choose differently.

It was gross.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 12:29     Subject: APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:I voted for Miranda. My takeaway from this is that many people in Arlington really are fine with how APS has handled the pandemic. I find this ... curious. Arlington is a weird place. I used to really love living here, but now I think we are a strange microcosm of a place. There's a lot to love but also ... I still can't really believe that most people are OK with APS providing very little instruction the past year.

And yes, yes, I know the teachers are working hard. I'm not blaming them. But virtual learning is so much a worse alternative than in-person, and other places have managed this so much better than Arlington, that's it's still a bit beyond me.

Most of Arlington is happy to leave schools part-time for three more weeks because it's the end of the year and, meh. Never mind that we have very little COVID in Arlington now and that those weeks could make a huge difference still for some of our kids ...

I just don't get it.


I think it just wasn’t that bad for middle and high and older elementary. So if you have younger elementary you might be outraged. But that is just a very small subset of voters, even if it encompasses all your friends.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 12:29     Subject: APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I voted for Miranda. My takeaway from this is that many people in Arlington really are fine with how APS has handled the pandemic. I find this ... curious. Arlington is a weird place. I used to really love living here, but now I think we are a strange microcosm of a place. There's a lot to love but also ... I still can't really believe that most people are OK with APS providing very little instruction the past year.

And yes, yes, I know the teachers are working hard. I'm not blaming them. But virtual learning is so much a worse alternative than in-person, and other places have managed this so much better than Arlington, that's it's still a bit beyond me.

Most of Arlington is happy to leave schools part-time for three more weeks because it's the end of the year and, meh. Never mind that we have very little COVID in Arlington now and that those weeks could make a huge difference still for some of our kids ...

I just don't get it.


You find it curious that people don't think exactly like you do? Really?


I expect individuals to disagree with me, of course. But that Arlington en masse is really just shrugging its shoulders and OK with this school year? Yes, I find that kind of shocking.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 12:24     Subject: APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:I voted for Miranda. My takeaway from this is that many people in Arlington really are fine with how APS has handled the pandemic. I find this ... curious. Arlington is a weird place. I used to really love living here, but now I think we are a strange microcosm of a place. There's a lot to love but also ... I still can't really believe that most people are OK with APS providing very little instruction the past year.

And yes, yes, I know the teachers are working hard. I'm not blaming them. But virtual learning is so much a worse alternative than in-person, and other places have managed this so much better than Arlington, that's it's still a bit beyond me.

Most of Arlington is happy to leave schools part-time for three more weeks because it's the end of the year and, meh. Never mind that we have very little COVID in Arlington now and that those weeks could make a huge difference still for some of our kids ...

I just don't get it.


You find it curious that people don't think exactly like you do? Really?
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 12:22     Subject: APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
I voted for Miranda. My takeaway from this is that many people in Arlington really are fine with how APS has handled the pandemic. I find this ... curious. Arlington is a weird place. I used to really love living here, but now I think we are a strange microcosm of a place. There's a lot to love but also ... I still can't really believe that most people are OK with APS providing very little instruction the past year.

And yes, yes, I know the teachers are working hard. I'm not blaming them. But virtual learning is so much a worse alternative than in-person, and other places have managed this so much better than Arlington, that's it's still a bit beyond me.

Most of Arlington is happy to leave schools part-time for three more weeks because it's the end of the year and, meh. Never mind that we have very little COVID in Arlington now and that those weeks could make a huge difference still for some of our kids ...

I just don't get it.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 11:47     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.


I resent that. DH worked his butt off to make partner, we had to make many compromises.


I'm sure you did. It's just that the sacrifices your family had to make during the pandemic are a teensy weensy bit different than a Latinx family who lives along Columbia Pike.


Amen. I'm so sorry and sad that PP doesn't seem to understand that.


DP. I'm pretty sure that comment was a joke, people. Lighten up.


If so, it was really funny.

But I'm not 100% sure. That crowd doesn't have much self awareness so it may have been real.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 11:25     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.


I resent that. DH worked his butt off to make partner, we had to make many compromises.


I'm sure you did. It's just that the sacrifices your family had to make during the pandemic are a teensy weensy bit different than a Latinx family who lives along Columbia Pike.


Amen. I'm so sorry and sad that PP doesn't seem to understand that.


DP. I'm pretty sure that comment was a joke, people. Lighten up.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 11:24     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:Mary is just a puppet for NA Dems. Limousine Liberals who will protect her Madison Manor girls club.


Don't mess with the MM girls club. They are mean. But they win....all the way to Westover (or rather Cardinal) #winning
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 11:16     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.


I resent that. DH worked his butt off to make partner, we had to make many compromises.


I'm sure you did. It's just that the sacrifices your family had to make during the pandemic are a teensy weensy bit different than a Latinx family who lives along Columbia Pike.


Amen. I'm so sorry and sad that PP doesn't seem to understand that.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 11:12     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.


I resent that. DH worked his butt off to make partner, we had to make many compromises.


I'm sure you did. It's just that the sacrifices your family had to make during the pandemic are a teensy weensy bit different than a Latinx family who lives along Columbia Pike.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 11:01     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.


I resent that. DH worked his butt off to make partner, we had to make many compromises.


OK then.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 10:57     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.


I resent that. DH worked his butt off to make partner, we had to make many compromises.


Like what? Yoga or Pilates today?
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 10:55     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.


I resent that. DH worked his butt off to make partner, we had to make many compromises.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 10:51     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Just open up five days next year, as they will! deep cleaned, and well ventilated and ready to go. Jeez folks. Your trust funds will take care of the rest.
Anonymous
Post 05/25/2021 10:50     Subject: Re:APS School Board Caucus - Voting Underway
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Never before has so much digital ink been spilled about a school system that is, on its best days, a little bit above average to anyone who has, say, lived anywhere other than Arlington.


Best comment of this thread!


Agreed. Too bad it took so many pages of BS to get it!