Are any APS Elementary Schools Offering After School Tutoring?
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Anonymous
+2. I'm tired of people blaming Covid for everything. Clearly there is more going on here. |
Anonymous
Sure! We are just starting this journey so I am by no means an expert but my son sees a children's therapist (Psychologist). She works with him to manage his emotions (tips to ease frustration, tips to calm himself when he is feeling overwhelmed, etc). Behavior therapy to help reduce behaviors that may be disruptive to others. But also it involves parent training in behavior management. We are also going to do occupation therapy to learn how to manage sensory seeking behavior. |
Anonymous
Nevertheless. If a child has learning disabilities, as it sounds OP’s does, or ADHD to the extent that it has negative academic impact, which it also sounds he does, that would have been the case even without Covid. He is getting OT for sensory seeking behavior which is impacting his learning - that is not due to APS or virtual school and will likely be an issue even if he qualifies for summer school or tutoring. Such is the nature of a disability. OP will be better prepared to deal with how this will impact him in all of k-12 if she stops pretending it’s a thing virtual school caused. |
Anonymous
| It's third grade math. Can't you teach and drill your kid on the weekend? |
Anonymous
Wait. I am not OP (I posted about OT, someone just asked what ADHD therapy looks like.) |
Anonymous
Oh that’s confusing but op also mentions OT and ADHD so it probably applies to her too. Her son has disabilities, virtual school did not cause them, tutoring won’t get rid of them. |
Anonymous
| Question for OP. You said that you had a tutor visit twice weekly during covid. Did that help? |
Anonymous
Earlier PP. It's the relative emphasis on memorizing facts/mastering standard algorithms vs using mental strategies for computing math fact tables and learning multiple algorithms. There is increasing emphasis on the latter. APS is not alone. That is the shift in US math education generally. However, APS is now adding on to that by moving toward problem-based learning, where kids discover math as opposed to having a teacher teach them directly. There is debate over whether PBL is appropriate for young kids as a learning approach. But beyond that, it is a particularly tough time to move toward PBL when kids have learning loss gaps and need clear, straightforward instruction to catch up. |
Anonymous
OP said school assessed two years ago and no LD. They should still ask for a school to reasses or pay for a private eval to rule out but 1) loads of kids without LD missed out on foundation skills and most schools, not called Arlington, are still grappling with this and 2) kids with LD who received virtual therapy for 18 months were left even more worse off than students with no LD. Sorry PP that this inconveniences your preferred narrative. Since learning loss has apparently already been remedied, I guess it was never real. |
Anonymous
Two years ago he was in k/age 5. You cannot definitively rule out learning disabilities at that age and if the issues are still occurring, a reevaluation is in order. |
Anonymous
| Also, there is no preferred narrative. Everybody got screwed by Covid, that’s not news. But APS didn’t cause disabilities. |
Anonymous
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OP, of course more should have been done to address COVID learning loss, but APS has chosen not to do anything. Accept it and just do right by your kid. Either you pay for tutors, get outside help like Kumon, or spend your own time working with your kid.
To catch my kid up in math, I got the Singapore math workbooks. It's a homeschooling curriculum that pretty closely follows what is taught in the APS curriculum. It's more comprehensive and better sequenced than the workbooks off of Amazon and has a teacher's guide if you need help walking through each lesson. You could do a lesson or two with your kid every night it and would help by providing additional practice and gap filling. |
Anonymous
| I am screaming here in my mind at some of the backseat comments posted here. I am a parent here with DC that is diagnosed with learning disabilities and during virtual learing they got little to no support despite virtual learning be a disaster for them. There are still learning gaps in my DC 2nd grade classroom in non title I north APS classroom. I know because I request math materials being taught to be sent home a head of time, and the circulum is the end of first grade. So not only is my DC behind,but many are. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if most students are still behind it is a high probability that those with a disability are even further behind. I agree the COVID-19 remediation support money was mismanaged, and it still digusts me.....sorry it is harder to let go when you had to pay thousands for tutoring support and math curriculum for home to basically catch your child up despite working 40 plus hours a week yourself.....so yes sorry it is easier said than done to just get over how APS is doing little to nothing to support our youngest learners that lost the most fundamental skills during virtual!!!!! For crying out loud my DC 1st grade teacher was given permission to ask parents to volunteer to come in and support her all of last year because the learning lost was so grave, and why because APS had no funds to support an aide as they have in K classrooms. I know several other school districts that did use the government funds for tutoring support etc. People are being prosecuted for Misuse or lying on their PP loans so why shouldn't a school district be held to a same standard 🤔 for misuse of government aide funds????? So please save your empty comments unless you have experienced what OP is referring to or can at least empathize with it as it is a real problem ongoing. |
Anonymous
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Who did the evaluation 2 years ago? APS is very reluctant to diagnose LDs as they require intervention, or it at least gives you grounds to advocate for specialized instruction. You probably need to re-evaluate with the school and then request an Independent Educational Evaluation to explore all potential areas of disability.
If you share the assessment results on the special needs board, people may be able to help you figure out the most effective type of tutoring. I had to decide between spending my energy and money fighting the school or supporting my child. |
Anonymous
OP here. Thank you for your post and I’m sorry for what you have gone through. I had no idea that a teacher was given permission to have parents come into the classroom. That is astounding. And I wish people would wave that massive red flag right in the entire county leaderships’ faces. How unacceptable that things have sunk to such a point. Would you be willing to share what school that was? I am tired of being gaslit by APS and others who want to just say it’s no big deal blah blah blah. I am so exhausted from all of it. Of course I will advocate tooth and nail for my child but APS is supposed to be my partner. Not my adversary. We pay exorbitant taxes for them to educate my child. Not try to do everything but provide services. I appreciate the other thoughtful comments on this thread. |