Bad grades? Let's teach them less

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care about the change in grades, but I do care if they water down the classes and get rid of some content in Middle/High School classes. I like the ideas of if a kid truly can't keep up, their parents need to submit a request for a waiver. Don't dumb down the class for my kids (who can keep up) just because your kid can't.

That or have the different sections - one class for kids who can keep up, one class for kids who need the flexible due dates. Of course, that might mean the kids don't go to their home school virtually but so be it.

This is the inflection point when “thriving” kids and parents realize they’re about to have their experience highly compromised as well.

Its really not, though. Kids who are doing wellnhavr parents who make sure they do well. I am doubling down on supplementing. Nbd.

If you have to supplement, then it's not working at large.

Most kids needed supplementing to do well in MCPS before pandemic. It could be simply parents doing it.

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Anonymous wrote:-Distance learning is a disaster for all kids!
-It's not a disaster for my kid.
-It's not a disaster for my kid either.
-It will be a disaster for your kids too, you egotistical hater!

Yep! DCUM gotta DCUM

DP. I see you are happily ignoring the data and press that is pouring out about the disproportionate numbers of disadvantaged kids who have simply disappeared from the education system altogether.

Of course, it is true that not even thinking about disadvantaged kids is indeed classic DCUM.

No, classic DCUM is disparaging disadvantaged kids. Or extolling them and disparaging the families of more advantaged kids. Or blaming Jack Smith for all their woes.

If it's *classic* DCUM, Jack Smith is not to blame. Joshua Starr is. Or maybe even Jerry Weast.

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DCUM parents don't have the power to do anything. But anyway, this just means that even kids who are "thriving" are really just better at navigating a highly compromised learning curriculum.

Poster: My kid is thriving.
You: I, an anonymous person on the Internet, know better about your kid than you do, and no, your kid is not.

What do you mean by "thriving"? Have you been able to compare expected learning outcomes this year versus what a traditional year looks like? Or are they just getting A's and say they're happy?

Poster: My kid is thriving.
You: You, as a parent, are not qualified to assess whether or not your kid is thriving.

LOL