APS Parent - incredibly disappointed.

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Subject: APS Parent - incredibly disappointed.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents here are full of crap. You do not know what goes I do teaching based on what you can see. And if you’re so free of anything else to do you can sit and watch your kids classes to this level of detail day in and day out you don’t have a concept of what work actually is since you don’t do it.

I have a K-2 student. I'm her childcare and tech support. Of course I know what's going on after 2.5 months of supervising DL, even while working. I've also been working nights and weekends to make up for the time spent helping her during the school day. It's endless. I'm exhausted.

Here, let me write her math lesson today:

Look at this picture of crap. Estimate how much crap you see. What does everyone think?
Write 673, 894, and 546 in expanded form.
Write 300+30+2 in reduced form. Write 400+50+3 in reduced form.
Go do Dreambox.

Here's a writing lesson:
Do pages 16-20 in Handwriting without Tears
Record yourself telling me three ideas for your next story

Here's a reading lesson:
Read the assigned text in Raz Kids and do the quiz.

This isn't rocket science.

Is this the asynchronous assignments? Or the live synchronous days work?

No the PP here, but my experience is similar - synchronous days.

It really could be either for us. On synchronous days, the teacher does the math problems live with the class. On asynchronous days, the kids do them on their own. For reading and writing, there would be some discussion of the assignment on synchronous days. The reading teacher might talk about how to recognize and remember facts when reading nonfiction. The writing teacher would let the kids chime in with their topic ideas and make suggestions for how to come up with a good topic.

And this is it: all of the core instruction in 2nd grade. 3-5 math problems per day, a few minutes discussing reading and writing, and then independent work/software apps. Nothing is graded. No feedback. No report card comments on individual progress.

I think you are a bad school. My kids are at a SE DCPS and they have small groups every day, and my first grader is doing more work and at a higher level than what is being assigned to your second grader. All of our teachers check in weekly, we've already received report cards, and overall, I know he has learned a lot since the beginning of the year. Have you been meeting with your school principal about your concerns? Many parents in our school do this regularly through our school advisory committee, and our principal and teachers have made adjustments accordingly.

Unfortunately, this sounds like a par for the course APS school. Our APS school did not even attempt to roll out small groups until after Halloween--even though I asked about it the first week of school when the teachers called to touch base and say hello. That was the one unique contact and outreach I have had from them. They both seem very nice and I'm sure are wonderful, but, APS has woefully under-performed during this distance learning crisis.

The feedback from APS administration is that this is meeting the district's expectations. There is zero desire to do more.

Just like the spring, when there was absolutely minimal effort to educate our kids? We literally received one weekly, grade-level email for self-guided instruction. Not one 1:1 meeting for my 2nd grade child and his teacher for months. Not one small group, absolutely minimal and pathetic effort and it hasn't improved much.