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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?

Most kids don’t go to college at all. Don’t you see how crass your statement is stating your kid is less than if they don’t go to college

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That’s a valid concern, and depending on your DL experience it varies. I’m probably a month *behind* on content (was DL until mid March), but we have been working all year. Back in person, we’ve certainly sped up, and without PARCC this year we get a few extra weeks on top of it.

Things like that, as well as intentionally navigating the next grades curriculum to maybe skip some of the less essential content, will, imo, support students in getting back to “where they’re supposed to be”

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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.

yes. sending virtual glass of wine.

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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.

well, in DC teachers went on strike to keep SN kids out of school. So there’s that.

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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.

well, in DC teachers went on strike to keep SN kids out of school. So there’s that.

and btw my torch is still burning because my kid is in crisis. that’s what you don’t get - things don’t magically get back to normal. My kid at least has me able to advocate and get services for him. millions of others dont.

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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.

well, in DC teachers went on strike to keep SN kids out of school. So there’s that.

+1. Do these teachers think we forgot about this?

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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.

well, in DC teachers went on strike to keep SN kids out of school. So there’s that.

and btw my torch is still burning because my kid is in crisis. that’s what you don’t get - things don’t magically get back to normal. My kid at least has me able to advocate and get services for him. millions of others dont.

So blame teachers on an anonymous message board oooorrrrr get your kid help.

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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.

well, in DC teachers went on strike to keep SN kids out of school. So there’s that.

and btw my torch is still burning because my kid is in crisis. that’s what you don’t get - things don’t magically get back to normal. My kid at least has me able to advocate and get services for him. millions of others dont.

So true. My kid is still receiving virtual IEP services due to this insane cohort rule, so we're still not making progress. Even when in person services resume, we need to undo the trauma - yes trauma - of not having school or in person services. This has been hell on SN kids and has made many of them feel horrible about themselves because they see that they can't keep up compared to others.

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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.

DP. All of what you just wrote made the other teacher's comments even more crass and cruel, not less. My God.

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I am friends w 3 SN teachers. All wanted to go back for their kids- yea teachers call their students their kids.

1 went back in the winter.

1 worked with her kids all summer because of school shutting in March

1 was told her kids would go to a non SN teacher and she would baby sit a cares classroom. She wanted to go back, volunteered (no kids and she was happy to go).

All three were pre vax.

But yes let’s trash teachers on a message board. Call your principal. I guess you aren’t going private as they can’t get in

My step daughter is SN. Her mom, dad, step dad and I all take a day to help her through her day. She is now vaccinated but not going back to school because the shift in schedule will be more hard on her. She will go back in September.

And before you go on about my SN step child - the four of us will be supporting her for life not until she can get into a decent college. Her special needs are no joke, nor are her medical issues.

Her brothers are behind where they would have been in person but yeah they can catch up. It will be fine.

Hard and exhausting but fine

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Anonymous wrote:I am friends w 3 SN teachers. All wanted to go back for their kids- yea teachers call their students their kids.

1 went back in the winter.

1 worked with her kids all summer because of school shutting in March

1 was told her kids would go to a non SN teacher and she would baby sit a cares classroom. She wanted to go back, volunteered (no kids and she was happy to go).

All three were pre vax.

But yes let’s trash teachers on a message board. Call your principal. I guess you aren’t going private as they can’t get in

My step daughter is SN. Her mom, dad, step dad and I all take a day to help her through her day. She is now vaccinated but not going back to school because the shift in schedule will be more hard on her. She will go back in September.

And before you go on about my SN step child - the four of us will be supporting her for life not until she can get into a decent college. Her special needs are no joke, nor are her medical issues.

Her brothers are behind where they would have been in person but yeah they can catch up. It will be fine.

Hard and exhausting but fine

Are you the word salad poster?

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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.

well, in DC teachers went on strike to keep SN kids out of school. So there’s that.

and btw my torch is still burning because my kid is in crisis. that’s what you don’t get - things don’t magically get back to normal. My kid at least has me able to advocate and get services for him. millions of others dont.

So true. My kid is still receiving virtual IEP services due to this insane cohort rule, so we're still not making progress. Even when in person services resume, we need to undo the trauma - yes trauma - of not having school or in person services. This has been hell on SN kids and has made many of them feel horrible about themselves because they see that they can't keep up compared to others.

yes. service providers still virtual is a huge problem.

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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.

jfc. do you think I don’t know that? I shouldn’t even be having to think about self-contained. things got this bad as a direct result of DL. Hoping my kid can pull out of the tailspin but there will not be that many options if he does not.

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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.

jfc. do you think I don’t know that? I shouldn’t even be having to think about self-contained. things got this bad as a direct result of DL. Hoping my kid can pull out of the tailspin but there will not be that many options if he does not.

and I’ll tell you something - your posts here make me even more inclined to fight self contained, because of your cluelessness and toxicity. dcps’s finest. in fact you’ve posted so many details here I’m positive I could figure out who you are.

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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.

DP. All of what you just wrote made the other teacher's comments even more crass and cruel, not less. My God.

Uhhhhh where did I say, I was 'trying to make it better?'