Virginia schools ranked dead last nationally in math recovery since pandemic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To add insult to injury, students are still reading three-quarters of a grade level behind where they were in 2019.

It’s time for a sanity check where we acknowledge we’ve been conned by pseudo “experts,” then dump any school policy implemented since 2018.

If this isn’t crisis mode, what is?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/virginia-sc...ort-says/ar-AA1yZKce

What an embarrassment for VA DoE! They need a complete overhaul!

[Anonymous]

Yet another Youngkin failure.

[Anonymous]

Need to dump these new aged curriculums, computers at an early age and get back to basics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No textbooks. Teaching using videos like Brain Pop, Moby& Annie, Amoeba Sisters, Lexia, ST Math, Math Antics,…. No spelling. No rote memorization. No practice. No homework. De-emphasized money, clocks, the basics. No hand-writing practice. They teach math off of Google slides instead of slowly writing stuff on board and having students copy it down. The math tests are standardized and the teachers hoard all the tests and don’t return them. The students do not learn from their mistakes. This has been happening for years across ALL subjects. Writing has not been taught, nor grammar. I’ve sadly had a front row seat to this constantly filling in gaps at home. Someone should get fired over these results!

All of the above is the prime reason that I had to leave my job and stay at home to supplement my children myself.

[Anonymous]

Bring back textbooks. These essentially did the work for the teachers. The lessons were all presented in an organized way to build on one another. It's LESS work for the teachers. It's CHEAPER than all the ipads and laptops and apps. You can still differentiate by -- gasp -- giving accelerated kids more advanced textbooks. When I was in school they just handed me the math book from the next level up and told me to work independently. The lessons were there --the teachers did no work.

[Anonymous]

can we get Elon and Trump on this problem? Surely federal dollars are being wasted somewhere on "ed tech."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:can we get Elon and Trump on this problem? Surely federal dollars are being wasted somewhere on "ed tech."

I thought you people wanted local control of schools. Which is it?

This is squarely on Youngkin. He ran on making schools “safe” from the non-existent threat of CRT and he’s done jack all for schools since getting elected. The buck stops with him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet another Youngkin failure.

Agree. He should immediately replace the school boards of all failing schools.

[Anonymous]

Bring back textbooks and workbooks aligned with the textbooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another Youngkin failure.

Agree. He should immediately replace the school boards of all failing schools.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To add insult to injury, students are still reading three-quarters of a grade level behind where they were in 2019.

It’s time for a sanity check where we acknowledge we’ve been conned by pseudo “experts,” then dump any school policy implemented since 2018.

If this isn’t crisis mode, what is?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/virginia-sc...ort-says/ar-AA1yZKce

Another reason to homeschool.

[Anonymous]

I’m so angry. This is infuriating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of what we are seeing is definitely remnants of the pandemic and the failure of online learning. But that does not count for the abysmal reading scores we are seeing in grades K-3. Last year nearly a quarter of my kindergarteners met the criteria to suggest retention. This year it's looking like more. The attention issues I am seeing are a major stumbling block to their learning. Kids spend too much time watching screens and not enough thinking, interacting, and responding. Both schools and families are contributing to this with the amount of time kids spend on screens. I can tell parents until I am blue in the face that their kindergartener doesn't need a phone and certainly shouldn't be watching YouTube in bed all night, but I am not in charge there. And my district sets the screen time at school, not me; if my kids don't get their minutes in the programs, it's my head. I feel like I'm in the middle of a slow motion train wreck.

In my experience I it happens with the lower class families

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp. No curricula. Random searches on the internet for worksheets and un-vetted TPT, Pinterest, and homeschool mom creations! The material is presented in a scattered, boggled way with no reference tool. The wheel keeps getting recreated but it’s not from teams of publishers and edited material with a big picture overview. It’s cobbled together on scraps of papers, referenced videos, and poor quality Gatehouse Google slides. It’s impossible to prepare your child well for a test!

No lessons on ‘how’ to write, just stated ‘write’. No vocabulary lessons. No books assigned and discussed with a teacher in a group, only 1 page passages are read for SOL prep. In fact, all teaching is done by end of April to accommodate the SOLs in May. May is wasted and material was rushed to completion around spring break in April.

Reason number 253,623,623,843 to put your kids in private schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add insult to injury, students are still reading three-quarters of a grade level behind where they were in 2019.

It’s time for a sanity check where we acknowledge we’ve been conned by pseudo “experts,” then dump any school policy implemented since 2018.

If this isn’t crisis mode, what is?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/virginia-sc...ort-says/ar-AA1yZKce

I agree. Global pandemic was a terrible idea. Don't do it again.

Certainly no school closures for a virus that is very mild in kids unless they are already sickly or obese