FCPS has been such a disappointments - not sure what to do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm all for vaccinations and rolling those out as quick as possible. However, it does appear that some research is coming out showing the mutations are not as affected by the vaccines. This is worriesome, imo.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: FCPS (our district) should focus on making next year happen instead of hand-wringing over less than half the year now. You're not making up anything this year. Do the best you can this year and focus on getting kids back in school in the fall. There is no reason to NOT have that happen if they do that.

Bull Shit.

Youngers kids (k-4) will absolutely get something out of limited in person this year. 4 month, 3 months, 2 months. Any of them would be worth it.

Teaching kindergartners how to read and write over a freaking laptop doesn't work.

You don't do this at home at all? Because we did. Everyone we know did.

Listen, you can bitch and complain all you want. But, luckily I'm surrounded with more resilient people than you seem to be. They are stepping up and doing enrichment at home in the evening, on the weekend, etc. It doesn't take that much for the younger grades. I've been there. It doesn't. And going back for a few weeks or months is NOT going to make up for the last year. It just isn't. So, if you've been sitting back and not doing anything to make sure your kid is kept up, that's on you.

Such privilege

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm all for vaccinations and rolling those out as quick as possible. However, it does appear that some research is coming out showing the mutations are not as affected by the vaccines. This is worriesome, imo.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: FCPS (our district) should focus on making next year happen instead of hand-wringing over less than half the year now. You're not making up anything this year. Do the best you can this year and focus on getting kids back in school in the fall. There is no reason to NOT have that happen if they do that.

Bull Shit.

Youngers kids (k-4) will absolutely get something out of limited in person this year. 4 month, 3 months, 2 months. Any of them would be worth it.

Teaching kindergartners how to read and write over a freaking laptop doesn't work.

You don't do this at home at all? Because we did. Everyone we know did.

Listen, you can bitch and complain all you want. But, luckily I'm surrounded with more resilient people than you seem to be. They are stepping up and doing enrichment at home in the evening, on the weekend, etc. It doesn't take that much for the younger grades. I've been there. It doesn't. And going back for a few weeks or months is NOT going to make up for the last year. It just isn't. So, if you've been sitting back and not doing anything to make sure your kid is kept up, that's on you.

Opening schools this year will not take away from opening schools in the fall, this is a stupid argument.

Both can, should and will be done.

[Anonymous]

opening schools this year makes it more likely that schools will open fully and on time this summer and fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need an education overhaul across the whole country. I’m ready to start from scratch. So many things wrong. And I would agree that they aren’t handling diversity well at all. Why is there not a separate system for getting esol kids up to speed in English? They’re just failing those students by keeping them in mainstream when they don’t understand.

Because that’s deemed to be racist. Unfortunately, for those kids, any chance of real opportunity is being taken from them by those who claim to want to help the most.