Too much student choice in our public school

[Anonymous]

Same at my local VA school district. My son spends so much time working on his avatar. He doesn’t even understand the level he’s gotten to, he just picks from the multiple choice over and over until he gets it right (he’s 1st grade). Teachers don’t read to them, the tv screen reads books to them.

I wish my kids could have the kind of education I got. With books and classroom discussion. Classes based on levels instead of everything from non verbal to gifted in one classroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is how things are at our (generall well-regarded) LCPS elementary school. And yes, I agree with you OP. Way too many options for screen time and "choice boards." I want more whole group instruction/the whole class is doing X.

Same at LCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Complain to your school board.

Honestly they just don’t care. They’re so checked out and off doing lip service nonstop. Like sending out dumb messages every time there’s a school shooting. They need to focus on our school district!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To each his own, but my kid has responded very well to having 1-2 choices after completing the classroom lesson materials. Keeps him busy and engaged instead of bored and potentially disruptive.

People who are referring to private religious schools - remember they are not required to accept kids with learning disabilities, and they often don’t. It’s fine if you want to avoid disabled kids, but just be honest about that.

Religious school absolutely DO take kids with learning differences. Look into it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To each his own, but my kid has responded very well to having 1-2 choices after completing the classroom lesson materials. Keeps him busy and engaged instead of bored and potentially disruptive.

People who are referring to private religious schools - remember they are not required to accept kids with learning disabilities, and they often don’t. It’s fine if you want to avoid disabled kids, but just be honest about that.

Religious school absolutely DO take kids with learning differences. Look into it

My kid’s Catholic school has a whole program for kids with pretty severe intellectual disabilities. The other kids work with them as aides. It’s pretty remarkable.

[Anonymous]

OP, I would check out Catholics and privates. Our public had alot of the same issues and so many parents were supplementing outside of school that the test scores for the overall school looked good, so I didn’t expect anything to change by me complaining.

We left for a Catholic school and it’s been night and day. Very structured, textbooks, minimal screen time. The pace of learning is so much faster and my kids are leaning so much more.