Anonymous
12/18/2025 16:05
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
I think someone needs to say this out loud. But politically speaking, democrats need to first realize that they might be really bad on education. and I'm sorry if that ruffles some feathers. We have one political voice in Arlington, and one only. If you dare speak out against what the tribe has chosen, you are immediately cast aside. Dare i say, what we are seeing with our public schools in Arlington has much less to do with Youngkin (or any Va Governor's) tenure, and more to do with decades-long democratic leadership embracing liberal and trending academic attitudes in public education. For those who were willing to go for the ride, because even if we want to see EVERYONE challenged, I think many of us would be fine with a change that resulted in stark improvements to those who were traditionally under-served - we just simply have not see anything to suggest what Duran is doing is working. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
so you have no plan and just want to criticize?
Anonymous
12/18/2025 16:04
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
I think someone needs to say this out loud. But politically speaking, democrats need to first realize that they might be really bad on education. and I'm sorry if that ruffles some feathers. We have one political voice in Arlington, and one only. If you dare speak out against what the tribe has chosen, you are immediately cast aside. Dare i say, what we are seeing with our public schools in Arlington has much less to do with Youngkin (or any Va Governor's) tenure, and more to do with decades-long democratic leadership embracing liberal and trending academic attitudes in public education. For those who were willing to go for the ride, because even if we want to see EVERYONE challenged, I think many of us would be fine with a change that resulted in stark improvements to those who were traditionally under-served - we just simply have not see anything to suggest what Duran is doing is working. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
A lot of education policy and funding comes from the state which has not been consistently Dem controlled. And some of what you blame Duran for are things that no one has solved.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 16:01
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
Buy a quality, evidence based math curriculum for the county. Math scores dropped across the board last year and Duran literally said that he was just going to monitor and do nothing. That's not okay.
Having teacher purchase random materials from teachers -paying-teachers websites to teach math is not a solution. Directing middle and high schoolers to random internet videos and websites is not a solution. Buying unused Envision workbooks each year is a total waste of APS funds, and has been going on for years now. It's time for APS Teaching and Learning folks to get off their rears and figure out a solution.
Ok that's math, one subject. Is that your entire plan to address what you say are massive discrepancies between schools? And how does the math curriculum fix that - some schools are doing quite welll now without it so is that really going to fix it at the ones that are not?
Students in well off parts of town are filling gaps from a non existent math curriculum with parents are helping to teach math, or else paying for other resources or tutoring. There's a whole industry of math enrichment and tutors because APS schools aren't teaching math well. Students at less affluent schools don't have the resources to pay for tutoring or AoPS or RSM or Mathnasium or Kumon, and their parents likely can't teach them, so they are struggling even more. I know tons and tons of kids in N Arlington with math tutors.
This is literally an issue APS has known about for years and has don't nothing to solve.
I don't disagree but math is one subject, how does this fix the rest of the disparities?
Anonymous
12/18/2025 16:00
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
Expand summer school to be offered to more at risk and struggling students, like it used to before the pandemic.
ok but you do realize these discrepancies existed before the pandemic too right?
Anonymous
12/18/2025 15:55
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
Can someone explain to me the whole voucher discussion? Critics think this is really just a pretext to get around separation of church and state in schools, and prop up private religious schools? Ok, fine, but couldn't families use vouchers to send their kids to, I dunno, a non-religious private school? And vouchers are government-funded, no? And since when did republicans want to expand government expenses? I'd love to pile on to calling out closeted maga-types, but I'd like to understand the logic before I do so.
Vouchers take money from public schools and gives it to middle and upper income people to subsidize sending their kids to private schools. It leaves the schools with fewer resources and only poor students, i.e., those without funds to pay the remaining tuition for a better, private school. Vouchers aren't usually enough to fully cover another quality option.
I’m against vouchers. I also think our current system is failing. If we want the voucher discussion to go away, we need to put in the work to fix our schools.
APS spends more per student than most other districts, including areas with similarly high costs of living. We continue to waste money on frivolous projects.
We need to stop worrying about feelings and get back to actual instruction. No teacher can provide meaningful differentiation for numerous ability levels in a single classroom. Cut the small group crap and group entire classrooms together based on ability.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 15:00
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
Can someone explain to me the whole voucher discussion? Critics think this is really just a pretext to get around separation of church and state in schools, and prop up private religious schools? Ok, fine, but couldn't families use vouchers to send their kids to, I dunno, a non-religious private school? And vouchers are government-funded, no? And since when did republicans want to expand government expenses? I'd love to pile on to calling out closeted maga-types, but I'd like to understand the logic before I do so.
Vouchers take money from public schools and gives it to middle and upper income people to subsidize sending their kids to private schools. It leaves the schools with fewer resources and only poor students, i.e., those without funds to pay the remaining tuition for a better, private school. Vouchers aren't usually enough to fully cover another quality option.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 14:56
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
Can someone explain to me the whole voucher discussion? Critics think this is really just a pretext to get around separation of church and state in schools, and prop up private religious schools? Ok, fine, but couldn't families use vouchers to send their kids to, I dunno, a non-religious private school? And vouchers are government-funded, no? And since when did republicans want to expand government expenses? I'd love to pile on to calling out closeted maga-types, but I'd like to understand the logic before I do so.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 14:48
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
I think someone needs to say this out loud. But politically speaking, democrats need to first realize that they might be really bad on education. and I'm sorry if that ruffles some feathers. We have one political voice in Arlington, and one only. If you dare speak out against what the tribe has chosen, you are immediately cast aside. Dare i say, what we are seeing with our public schools in Arlington has much less to do with Youngkin (or any Va Governor's) tenure, and more to do with decades-long democratic leadership embracing liberal and trending academic attitudes in public education. For those who were willing to go for the ride, because even if we want to see EVERYONE challenged, I think many of us would be fine with a change that resulted in stark improvements to those who were traditionally under-served - we just simply have not see anything to suggest what Duran is doing is working. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 14:35
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
Buy a quality, evidence based math curriculum for the county. Math scores dropped across the board last year and Duran literally said that he was just going to monitor and do nothing. That's not okay.
Having teacher purchase random materials from teachers -paying-teachers websites to teach math is not a solution. Directing middle and high schoolers to random internet videos and websites is not a solution. Buying unused Envision workbooks each year is a total waste of APS funds, and has been going on for years now. It's time for APS Teaching and Learning folks to get off their rears and figure out a solution.
Ok that's math, one subject. Is that your entire plan to address what you say are massive discrepancies between schools? And how does the math curriculum fix that - some schools are doing quite welll now without it so is that really going to fix it at the ones that are not?
Students in well off parts of town are filling gaps from a non existent math curriculum with parents are helping to teach math, or else paying for other resources or tutoring. There's a whole industry of math enrichment and tutors because APS schools aren't teaching math well. Students at less affluent schools don't have the resources to pay for tutoring or AoPS or RSM or Mathnasium or Kumon, and their parents likely can't teach them, so they are struggling even more. I know tons and tons of kids in N Arlington with math tutors.
This is literally an issue APS has known about for years and has don't nothing to solve.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 14:30
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
Expand summer school to be offered to more at risk and struggling students, like it used to before the pandemic.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 14:30
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
Buy a quality, evidence based math curriculum for the county. Math scores dropped across the board last year and Duran literally said that he was just going to monitor and do nothing. That's not okay.
Having teacher purchase random materials from teachers -paying-teachers websites to teach math is not a solution. Directing middle and high schoolers to random internet videos and websites is not a solution. Buying unused Envision workbooks each year is a total waste of APS funds, and has been going on for years now. It's time for APS Teaching and Learning folks to get off their rears and figure out a solution.
Ok that's math, one subject. Is that your entire plan to address what you say are massive discrepancies between schools? And how does the math curriculum fix that - some schools are doing quite welll now without it so is that really going to fix it at the ones that are not?
Anonymous
12/18/2025 13:38
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
Buy a quality, evidence based math curriculum for the county. Math scores dropped across the board last year and Duran literally said that he was just going to monitor and do nothing. That's not okay.
Having teacher purchase random materials from teachers -paying-teachers websites to teach math is not a solution. Directing middle and high schoolers to random internet videos and websites is not a solution. Buying unused Envision workbooks each year is a total waste of APS funds, and has been going on for years now. It's time for APS Teaching and Learning folks to get off their rears and figure out a solution.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 13:32
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
okay so what's your plan?
Anonymous
12/18/2025 12:49
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
The confidence with which people state baseless conspiracy theories.
It's easier than admitting that Dems have been running Arlington for a long time and we still have massive discrepancies between schools.
Anonymous
12/18/2025 11:38
Subject: APS Duran School Performance Email - Is Long Branch a Failing School?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MAGA attack on public ed
No it isn’t. 2/3 of the schools are on track. If this is an attack why are t there more failing schools? The reality is that these schools are pretty bad and Arlington does have a two tier educational system. Hopefully this puts an end to the myth that all Arlington public schools are the same. This is why there is such a long waitlist for ATS. Parents know how bad these schools are and want an out.
It’s a maga move to vouchers which maybe you support
Democrats will control the Virginia govt in just a few weeks. They need to decide if they're going to support these schools or do nothing. If new Dem administration does nothing or not enough, vouchers will keep coming up.