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Anonymous wrote:It'll be so nice to get back to this sort of thing when the DL abomination is over..... /s

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bullying-concerns-at-school-in-fairfax-county-after-boy-suffers-multiple-concussions

This article is about the utter failure of teachers and school staff to do their job. Hope they are ready for the huge increase in behavioral problems after schools were shuttered for a year.

Are you essentially admitting that kids at home with their families will return to school so utterly feral that schools will become behavior modification centers? If so, you’re telling on yourself . My kids are perfectly functional and thriving because our house is just a normal house. They’ve been chillin and doing DL and they’re just fine. Not sure wtf is going on at your house if your kids aren’t able to behave and function in society if they’re there with you more than not.

I'm sure you think you scored a point. You think you were clever in insulting the PP. But all you showed is how truly small-minded, ignorant, and undeservedly arrogant you really are. What happens in any given home cannot be extrapolated to an entire district next year. Nearly 200,000 kids in FCPS alone will have to learn how to be students inside the classroom after being away for 1.5 years. All the while, the administrators and teachers will have to find a way to remediate a catastrophic (nearly) lost year of education. If you think this is going to be easy on the teachers and/or your perfectly functioning, thriving kids, you really have no idea what's coming.

What I find really surprising about this line of argument is the idea that there is such a thing as "learning to be a student in a classroom" as if that were an end in itself. "Being a student" almost entirely involves being told what to do and following a limited set of instructions. This might have been a laudable goal about a century ago, when people graduated to go on to various clerical or paper pushing positions that they'd hold essentially for the rest of their lives. These days, not so much. And if you really think that's an important goal, 10 years of paper pushing vs. 12 isn't going to make a difference.

As for the idea that "you learn to work with others"...no, not really. My kids are excellent students and they've always loathed group projects--why? Because you don't get to fire the students assigned to your group, and the general rule is that in a group project involving four people, two will do absolutely nothing, one will make a half-baked, sloppy contribution, and the student with the highest standards will end up carrying the entire thing for three happy free-loaders.

DP. Some kids are natural students, such as yours. They don't need years of practice.

But other children aren't natural students, and they get better at it with practice. Think of all of the students in your children's classes that you silently (or not so silently) disparage. Those are ones who would improve with practice. And will not have improved over this past year.

That wasn't the point of my comment.
The point of the first paragraph was that "being a student" is not a worthy end in itself. Education is more and more important, but the world is getting rid of jobs that involve listless paper pushing under orders.

The point of the second paragraph was (news flash) that the vast majority of students don't like to do school work and there is no magic educational sauce that gets poured on when they have to "work with others", let alone sit in a group with others.

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I gave up my career to stay home with my 3 kids. I have wanted my kids to return to school but I am not desperate to do so. I am trying to make the best of the DL situation. We have taken several road trips and done virtual school from the outer banks, Hilton head, Bethany, lake Anna and Florida over the past year. My kids would swim or go fishing during lunch break.

I am still a strong advocate of returning to school. My kids miss their friends. My younger child was struggling with DL in the beginning but he is now doing great. Think it just took some getting used to. Oldest child seems to not mind rolling out of bed and tuning in to morning meeting.

This post is breathtaking.

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I gave up my career to stay home with my 3 kids. I have wanted my kids to return to school but I am not desperate to do so. I am trying to make the best of the DL situation. We have taken several road trips and done virtual school from the outer banks, Hilton head, Bethany, lake Anna and Florida over the past year. My kids would swim or go fishing during lunch break.

I am still a strong advocate of returning to school. My kids miss their friends. My younger child was struggling with DL in the beginning but he is now doing great. Think it just took some getting used to. Oldest child seems to not mind rolling out of bed and tuning in to morning meeting.

This post is breathtaking.

This post is astoundingly ridiculous. Does this person realize her reality is extremely privileged???

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Meanwhile Europe is closing up shop again.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-schools-are-closing-again-on-concerns-they-spread-covid-19-11610805601" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-schools-are-closing-again-on-concerns-they-spread-covid-19-11610805601

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
I gave up my career to stay home with my 3 kids. I have wanted my kids to return to school but I am not desperate to do so. I am trying to make the best of the DL situation. We have taken several road trips and done virtual school from the outer banks, Hilton head, Bethany, lake Anna and Florida over the past year. My kids would swim or go fishing during lunch break.

I am still a strong advocate of returning to school. My kids miss their friends. My younger child was struggling with DL in the beginning but he is now doing great. Think it just took some getting used to. Oldest child seems to not mind rolling out of bed and tuning in to morning meeting.

This post is breathtaking.

This post is astoundingly ridiculous. Does this person realize her reality is extremely privileged???

Pp here. I do know that we are privileged. I was just commenting in response to the person who said people who can’t parent want kids to return to school. I was just trying to say that I stayed home to parent my kids and I still want my kids back in school. I am just trying to make the best of a bad situation.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m enjoying all the smug parents with perfect children who have been paying for private tutors, accelerating them ahead, doing lots of enrichment. You do realize that Larla will be sitting through a ton of remediation no matter how far ahead she is after a year of “thriving” during DL?

Ehh I know I’m privilege that my older two are in AAP.

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My kid in AAP is way behind. Their school didn’t teach at all last spring. AAP will slow way down too.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid in AAP is way behind. Their school didn’t teach at all last spring. AAP will slow way down too.

And you haven’t stepped up as a parent. Because it’s not your job. Amirite?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid in AAP is way behind. Their school didn’t teach at all last spring. AAP will slow way down too.

I have 4th and 6th graders in AAP. 6th grader has lots of new content and has the IOWA math assessment coming up for Algebra eligibility. We have had to go to school to pick up several books for language arts. My 4th grader seems to be learning what 6th grader was when he was in 4th. I’m just glad they are in elementary and not high school.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid in AAP is way behind. Their school didn’t teach at all last spring. AAP will slow way down too.

It won't. Kids will just have gaps. Some will have big gaps.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid in AAP is way behind. Their school didn’t teach at all last spring. AAP will slow way down too.

I have 4th and 6th graders in AAP. 6th grader has lots of new content and has the IOWA math assessment coming up for Algebra eligibility. We have had to go to school to pick up several books for language arts. My 4th grader seems to be learning what 6th grader was when he was in 4th. I’m just glad they are in elementary and not high school.

My 4th grader in AAP has learned markedly less than his older sister did. They have not been given any books by their school. We have been told the Iowa tests are on hold. They have very little work assignments, no school on Mondays and almost no writing at all. Be glad your kids are at a school with a good principal.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid in AAP is way behind. Their school didn’t teach at all last spring. AAP will slow way down too.

It won't. Kids will just have gaps. Some will have big gaps.

Nope. AAP classes will slow down to the lowest common denominator. That happens in years without pandemics.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid in AAP is way behind. Their school didn’t teach at all last spring. AAP will slow way down too.

And you haven’t stepped up as a parent. Because it’s not your job. Amirite?

You are correct, I am not employed as a full time FCPS professional teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:It'll be so nice to get back to this sort of thing when the DL abomination is over..... /s

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bullying-concerns-at-school-in-fairfax-county-after-boy-suffers-multiple-concussions

This article is about the utter failure of teachers and school staff to do their job. Hope they are ready for the huge increase in behavioral problems after schools were shuttered for a year.

Are you essentially admitting that kids at home with their families will return to school so utterly feral that schools will become behavior modification centers? If so, you’re telling on yourself . My kids are perfectly functional and thriving because our house is just a normal house. They’ve been chillin and doing DL and they’re just fine. Not sure wtf is going on at your house if your kids aren’t able to behave and function in society if they’re there with you more than not.

I'm sure you think you scored a point. You think you were clever in insulting the PP. But all you showed is how truly small-minded, ignorant, and undeservedly arrogant you really are. What happens in any given home cannot be extrapolated to an entire district next year. Nearly 200,000 kids in FCPS alone will have to learn how to be students inside the classroom after being away for 1.5 years. All the while, the administrators and teachers will have to find a way to remediate a catastrophic (nearly) lost year of education. If you think this is going to be easy on the teachers and/or your perfectly functioning, thriving kids, you really have no idea what's coming.

I AM a teacher. I am well aware of the uphill battle ahead of us but it has nothing to do with kids somehow losing all sense of conduct while at home. Why do you have such a low opinion of students and families? Among the thing that students find difficult about DL, being at home with their family isn’t top 5. They like that part a lot actually.

Ok, we shall see. Hopefully next year we can graduate from message board theory crafting to actual practice.

YOU are message boards theory crafting. I am an actual licensed and multi degreed professional in education. You’re not on my level in this discourse.

Yes, you are theorizing. You have no idea what to expect district-wide next school year. There is zero past history to draw upon. You are excessively arrogant, though...and that will probably work against your personal circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It'll be so nice to get back to this sort of thing when the DL abomination is over..... /s

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bullying-concerns-at-school-in-fairfax-county-after-boy-suffers-multiple-concussions

This article is about the utter failure of teachers and school staff to do their job. Hope they are ready for the huge increase in behavioral problems after schools were shuttered for a year.

Are you essentially admitting that kids at home with their families will return to school so utterly feral that schools will become behavior modification centers? If so, you’re telling on yourself . My kids are perfectly functional and thriving because our house is just a normal house. They’ve been chillin and doing DL and they’re just fine. Not sure wtf is going on at your house if your kids aren’t able to behave and function in society if they’re there with you more than not.

I'm sure you think you scored a point. You think you were clever in insulting the PP. But all you showed is how truly small-minded, ignorant, and undeservedly arrogant you really are. What happens in any given home cannot be extrapolated to an entire district next year. Nearly 200,000 kids in FCPS alone will have to learn how to be students inside the classroom after being away for 1.5 years. All the while, the administrators and teachers will have to find a way to remediate a catastrophic (nearly) lost year of education. If you think this is going to be easy on the teachers and/or your perfectly functioning, thriving kids, you really have no idea what's coming.

I AM a teacher. I am well aware of the uphill battle ahead of us but it has nothing to do with kids somehow losing all sense of conduct while at home. Why do you have such a low opinion of students and families? Among the thing that students find difficult about DL, being at home with their family isn’t top 5. They like that part a lot actually.

Ok, we shall see. Hopefully next year we can graduate from message board theory crafting to actual practice.

YOU are message boards theory crafting. I am an actual licensed and multi degreed professional in education. You’re not on my level in this discourse.

Yes, you are theorizing. You have no idea what to expect district-wide next school year. There is zero past history to draw upon. You are excessively arrogant, though...and that will probably work against your personal circumstances.

My personal circumstances are fine. I am doing my job. I’ll get vaccinated soon and go in. People who want to claim other people’s kids lost all semblance of how to behave in a building because they’ve been home with their families have no clue what they’re talking about. Kids will come back to school, they’ll remember what to do, we will begin the process of helping them catch up. It is what it is. Some of you stay so dramatically hyped up about stuff you don’t even have any skin in. It’s teachers’ problem how to catch kids up. We will manage.