4th grade dropouts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for talking me off the ledge. I'm feeling a bit better now and of course I'm going to work with them on math and English. Just for maybe an hour or two a day - just not 7 hours a day. And I'm not enrolling them anywhere. I can follow Khan Academy and IXL for math and I've got a really good idea of what they need in terms of English since I'm a journalist and I've been reading what they write. I'll update if I hear from the school board or CPS or the truancy police (Who is that, exactly? My husband is asking.)

Hi OP!

I saw this stoem.coming in the summer and pulled my 5th grader. DH and I work FT and we spend, between thr 2 of us about 4.5hrs a day doing the vavak12 program. 20% online 80% us. Our "school hours" are often very odd.

I can assure you spending 1-2 hours with your children a day will be wayyyy more productive than the charade that the public schools are performing.

We are currently on the hunt for an opening in private school. After seeing what friends and peers are going through quite frankly I don't want my kids in the same educational setting as other kids who have been assaulted by our public schools. The remediation these kids who will have had over a year without an education will be absolutely miserable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to know how many kids have withdrawn from public schools.

It was almost 10,000 from Fairfax, last fall. They haven't provided any updates since then.

Second PP, where did you see that info?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to know how many kids have withdrawn from public schools.

It was almost 10,000 from Fairfax, last fall. They haven't provided any updates since then.

Second PP, where did you see that info?

It was in a slideshow to the school board. They also lost a ton of kids with severe special needs, I imagine those kids are home doing nothing because they can’t enroll in mainstream privates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.

Are you familiar with Virginia’s compulsory education laws?

How can it be compulsory if the state fails to provide an education? Sounds like a great defense to me. Let the county try to defend its alleged educational services this year.

HA! Good point PP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We dropped out of 2nd grade in April last year after trying DL for a couple of weeks. Did not homeschool. This year for 3rd grade I am homeschooling her but I am not following a set program. Pinterest and the Brainquest books are my best friends. Make up your own program based on their interests OP so they stay interested in learning.

NP: I've also been amazed at the free YouTube Learning available. Free videos by "Clarendon Learning" and "Homeschool Pop" on so many subjects. You can fairly easily create a curriculum by spending a few hours each weekend looking up some resources and organizing them for the week into units and buying workbooks. Enlist Grandparents on skype to read with etc. Just do your best. The school is not. I'm fairly confident any parental efforts are superior to 100% online education by public schools (for elementary school at least).

[Anonymous]

To the people supplementing - won’t your kids just be bored next year when the teacher has to catch everyone else up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the people supplementing - won’t your kids just be bored next year when the teacher has to catch everyone else up?

Probably but the concern is keeping them on target.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for talking me off the ledge. I'm feeling a bit better now and of course I'm going to work with them on math and English. Just for maybe an hour or two a day - just not 7 hours a day. And I'm not enrolling them anywhere. I can follow Khan Academy and IXL for math and I've got a really good idea of what they need in terms of English since I'm a journalist and I've been reading what they write. I'll update if I hear from the school board or CPS or the truancy police (Who is that, exactly? My husband is asking.)

Hi OP!

I saw this stoem.coming in the summer and pulled my 5th grader. DH and I work FT and we spend, between thr 2 of us about 4.5hrs a day doing the vavak12 program. 20% online 80% us. Our "school hours" are often very odd.

I can assure you spending 1-2 hours with your children a day will be wayyyy more productive than the charade that the public schools are performing.

We are currently on the hunt for an opening in private school. After seeing what friends and peers are going through quite frankly I don't want my kids in the same educational setting as other kids who have been assaulted by our public schools. The remediation these kids who will have had over a year without an education will be absolutely miserable.

Hire help. Kids have not been assaulted. Stop the drama.

[Anonymous]

Fifty shades of crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fifty shades of crazy.

This disastrous school year? Absolutely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fifty shades of crazy.

This disastrous school year? Absolutely.

No. You crazy people. Should not have had kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fifty shades of crazy.

This disastrous school year? Absolutely.

No. You crazy people. Should not have had kids.

I'll acknowledge this post only to the extent of making an observation that nobody pays attention to this particular retort any more. You're talking to yourself.

[Anonymous]

I just received a note from our first grade teacher last night that our kid is basically "failing" right now (without going into details, just translate that through the lens of what's expected of a first grader). He's entirely checked out since coming back from break. I'm trying, but he has no interest in this any more. I doubt that he falls in any "10% failing" data, but he's probably one of thousands that are barely, or not, even treading water. We likely have five more months of this. There is no way DL has any chance of working for him so I basically need to come up with my own form of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the people supplementing - won’t your kids just be bored next year when the teacher has to catch everyone else up?

Maybe, but at least they’ll be bored while getting some socialization instead of bored snd stuck at home with an iPad for company. Also, it’s my job to make sure they learn what they need to know AND stay engaged/interested in learning, not that they keep pace (or lack of) with their school system.

[Anonymous]

Seconding the PP's recommendation for Virginia Virtual Academy's (VAVA/K12) curriculum. I am not sure if VAVA (the free online public charter school) is enrolling for second semester, but K12 has a private component that charges by the class. It is still online, but the curriculum is at least designed for online use, there aren't multiple links to click all day, and there are physical textbooks. We switched my 6th grade twins to VAVA before school started and it has been a lifesaver - they still need my help, but they have actually learned quite a bit.