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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Strange how teachers say they're working so hard yet schools' own learning loss data shows kids have learned basically nothing this year.

Strange how teachers were forced to entirely change their practice with no new resources or training and learning was impacted. We basically started from scratch this year and instead of being partners some of you really turned into monsters. It’s cool tho, I’m better than I ever was at my job and I get to laugh at all the parents who showed their asses this year.

No one forced teachers to do anything. They chose this. They only reason schools are closed in DC is because teachers refused to show up for work. Schools in most of the rest of the country are fully open. In many places, they never closed. Teachers in DC put their own selfish concerns before everyone else, giving the middle finger to their own students, not to mention the medical community who've said for months that it was safe to reopen, even before vaccines were available.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

Where word salad is a response to plain English

Where karen is the worst thing you can call someone

Where we must complain about something they didn’t like 4 months in a pandemic

Where a kids 7th grade reading score determines their whole life

[Anonymous]

DP. You are absolutely, 100% gaslighting when you are telling an SN parent that her child has had no learning loss and that it's a fake term.

You also sound like someone profoundly unaware of SNs. God knows what you do to your poor students with SNs. I am very familiar with teachers like you and how much they harm students with SNs.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

While you may have been sincere in your apology and earnest in your wish to present your POV (and regardless of whether any of us is using gaslighting correctly), can you not see that your comment about college to a parent whose child has regressed to the point of needing a self-contained classroom is at best crass and insensitive and at worst cruel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. You are absolutely, 100% gaslighting when you are telling an SN parent that her child has had no learning loss and that it's a fake term.

You also sound like someone profoundly unaware of SNs. God knows what you do to your poor students with SNs. I am very familiar with teachers like you and how much they harm students with SNs.

I’ll pop in one last time and ask you where in my comments I said anything at all about SN students. Beyond that, I’m very okay with the work I do and the relationships I’ve built with all my families. Thank goodness anonymous cranky pants don’t do my evaluations

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Anonymous wrote:DP. You are absolutely, 100% gaslighting when you are telling an SN parent that her child has had no learning loss and that it's a fake term.

You also sound like someone profoundly unaware of SNs. God knows what you do to your poor students with SNs. I am very familiar with teachers like you and how much they harm students with SNs.

I’ll pop in one last time and ask you where in my comments I said anything at all about SN students. Beyond that, I’m very okay with the work I do and the relationships I’ve built with all my families. Thank goodness anonymous cranky pants don’t do my evaluations

And that’s part of the problem with your post. You focus on the idea that parents complaining about learning loss are worried their kids won’t be taking BC calc or getting into Yale. You say that it won’t matter if kids learn to read at 7 or 7.5 yrs old. You fail to see that learning loss is real for many kids, kids with SN being an example that another poster brought to your attention. You then doubled down on your tone deaf comments. T1 school, really?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

Where word salad is a response to plain English

Where karen is the worst thing you can call someone

Where we must complain about something they didn’t like 4 months in a pandemic

Where a kids 7th grade reading score determines their whole life

I recognize your writing and yes, people frequently describe your writing style as "word salad" because that is regularly what you sound like. You do not have a linear thought process and are not competent at putting the thoughts you do have to words.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. You are absolutely, 100% gaslighting when you are telling an SN parent that her child has had no learning loss and that it's a fake term.

You also sound like someone profoundly unaware of SNs. God knows what you do to your poor students with SNs. I am very familiar with teachers like you and how much they harm students with SNs.

THIS! Hugs to the pp with the regressing SN kid and to all my fellow SN parents. My kid is regressing too and I'm really scared. DC is now years behind NT peers with reading/ELA, as in can't read.

It's so different for our kids. This is why it's like salt in a wound when other parents gush "We love our teachers!" while they go on strike to protest teaching SN, homeless, and ELL kids. We know our kids won't be ok.

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DP here but FYI I have asked Jeff to delete comments about SN kids made by this "T1 teacher" in other threads because they are so offensive.

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Anonymous wrote:DP here but FYI I have asked Jeff to delete comments about SN kids made by this "T1 teacher" in other threads because they are so offensive.

Not sure what this is in reference to, bc I never even mentioned SN, nor have I posted on other threads regarding that but okay. My comments, fwiw were in regards to learning loss for students in the genEd population. I am genuinely sorry if your SN kid has not had the opportunity to return to IPL, and I’d love to know how that even happened considering schools prioritized those students from the get go. I 100% agree that more should have been and should still be done for SN students and those farthest from opportunity.

Let’s just put down the freaking torches and have a drink my god. There’s something really sick about forums like this where people make up these monsters in their mind.

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There are no made-up monsters when we can all read your clear-as-day comments on the page here.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait, are PPs truly taking the position there had been no significant loss of learning across educational cohorts in DL? That is an astonishing level of gaslighting.

This.

there is one poster who believes if you don’t name the specific school you’re lying and have an “agenda.”

And there appears to be an entire DCUM community who completely misunderstands proper use of the word "gaslighting". Someone who disagrees with you isn't gaslighting. Someone who interprets data in a different way isn't gaslighting.

Anyone who tries to make parents think that distance learning hasn't resulted in learning loss IS gaslighting.

Learning loss is a fake term used by for profit companies to scare parents and raise anxiety amongst the community. Who cares if your kid is “1 year behind” (again meaningless), when all school communities are obviously aware that there was a pandemic and are adjusting their plans around that next year anyways.
By middle and high school students with higher aptitude will be in advanced classes and others will be in different tracks. Johnny isn’t going to be deprived AP calc bc he had to learn fractions in 4th grade instead of fifth grade.

Tl;dr learning loss is a lie (and no I’m not the earlier referenced social worker)

yeah who cares if kids are a year behind. who cares if this impacts black kids disproportionately. who cares if my SN kid has regressed so much he may be heading for a self contained classroom.

f you and your privilege. seriously f you.

I’m not sure what about that came across privileged but sorry if I offended you. I’m a T1 teacher who’s been in school since February. Most of my students have chosen to stay virtual and we’re doing the best we can. Next year, whether it’s me or another teacher, will pick up where we left off. If that means starting 3/4 of the way through the previous years curriculum than so be it. No college is concerned about what your DC reading level was when they were 7.

WTU member: Please stop gaslighting this special needs parent. Thank you.

Oh DCUM, where apologizing and trying to explain my POV is gaslighting

While you may have been sincere in your apology and earnest in your wish to present your POV (and regardless of whether any of us is using gaslighting correctly), can you not see that your comment about college to a parent whose child has regressed to the point of needing a self-contained classroom is at best crass and insensitive and at worst cruel?

Not PP but children don't go to self-contained solely based on academics. That's highly inappropriate and I am a self-contained teacher. This parent isn't giving full facts and really their child might have needed it before. Middle class and wealthy parents fight for the resource model even if it's not working the best for their child. Literally all the students I've had from privileged families their child was recommended for self-contained and they refused. Whoops, missed out on early intervention and are paying for it now. It's very sad but true, self-contained is pretty stigmatized.

I get many self-contained teachers in DCPS don't fight to get kids out but not all of are like that. I move at least 1 student back to gen ed every school year, even this pandemic year.

Sorry to the parent whose child might need self-contained but they can get out or you can refuse to put them there if they don't need it. Also FYI self-contained doesn't mean 'not on grade level,' I have several students 1-3 grade levels above.

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I don’t understand the perspective that “teachers will just catch the kids up next year.”

Kids brains are developing and they are primed for learning *now*. It’s not okay to let them sit fallow for a year; they can’t hold these years of rapid development on reserve.