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Say No to Extended School Year!

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Austin Campbell
5 years ago

This is not the way

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Peter Doane
5 years ago

2 hours per week of PD is crushing.

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Dee McGillivray
5 years ago Featured

Please, no extended school year. I rely on the summer break to help my parents and to recuperate so I can return refreshed and as a better teacher.

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Molly Chavez
5 years ago Featured

I am a single working mom- I know I share this title with many other employees in APS. Please do not extend the school year. It negatively impacts the little time I already have with my child. It is too late to plan for the extended time next year. 80 hours of additional PD that is not content specific does not respect our time. This year has been so tumultuous... Please don't extend our year and take more time away from our families. The well being of your employees will make for more productive and HAPPY employees!

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Ian Mel Vance
5 years ago Featured

This feels like a boondoggle to some PD provider, frankly. Complete waste of resources.

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Joyce A Sandoval
5 years ago

Teachers are continuously asked to do more even though they scramble to keep up with the load they carry each year. This school year has been no exception. We are now doing the nearly impossible task of teaching remotely and in person in the middle of a pandemic. It feels as though teachers are never enough or do enough. It's sad.

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Joyce A Sandoval
5 years ago

Teachers are continuously asked to do more even though they scramble to keep up with the load they carry each year. This school year has been no exception. We are now doing the nearly impossible task of teaching remotely and in person in the middle of a pandemic. It feels as though teachers are never enough or do enough. It's sad.

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Jamie Roberts
5 years ago

This is not going to do anything positive for teaching staff or students.

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Lauri Sedalnick
5 years ago

Extending the school year this next year or any year is not in ANY way efficient. APS returned this past month without even close to enough resources to do so. We are short teachers, supplies that we need to just function on a normal level, let alone a pandemic. We are short water for students, classrooms, and the Health Office. We are short security to assure any semblance of safety. We are short proper ventilation - many many teachers are unable to even have 3 feet apart from desks/students AND they have NO windows in the classroom and are not able to prop their doors. Not to mention this is NOT according to our safety issues for shooters, etc.

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Dale Pepke
5 years ago Featured

more time does NOT equal = more education. More PD ?? are they kidding?? Students have lost NOTHING.. according to my students. It has merely been delayed. 10 days is NOT in the classroom

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Silvina Farmin
5 years ago Featured

This will cause more teachers to leave the profession and attract even a lower number of new teachers

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Angela Vigil
5 years ago Featured

10 more days added to the school year will do nothing for students. It will only provides babysitting services for parents. Teachers are educators and not babysitters.

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Courtney Hinman
5 years ago

For the Cooperative Commonwealth!