What Arlington County schools are doing these days

A little background:

I went to public elementary school in the 1950s

The job of the school then was pretty simple:

teach the 3Rs (Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic).

(BTW, the school was Alison Elementary School in Wilkinsburg PA.)

Now, in 2023, let's see what Arlington County public schools are expected to do, per

https://www.arlnow.com/2023/09/11/nottingham-swing-space-proposal-puts-cart-before-horse-says-county-wide-pta/

<blockquote>The PTA council also says 

the move does not think through the extent to which bussing kids to Nottingham could disrupt 

communities that rely on schools to access bilingual coordinators, social workers and food pantries, or get referred for legal matters related to immigration status or domestic violence interventions.

While APS proposes a way to ensure kids still get to the doctor, by giving families access to Uber accounts, she says it is still unclear whether parents will still be able to access the other services these schools provide.</blockquote>

What a dizzying array of functions that have nothing to do with the basic classical function of schools: education.

In the 1950s, I think those functions either weren't needed ("bilingual coordinators") or were considered the responsibility of the family.

It seems a combination of massive immigration and the deliberate destruction of the 1950s family system has led to this massive expansion of scope for the schools.