Does DCPS have a plan to remediate the learning loss caused by their long-term pandemic closure?

[Anonymous]

Honestly these kids will be a lost generation. They will never recover from the harm. The only thing left to do IMO is vote against any candidate that supports teacher unions, so they can’t harm yet more children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Oh BUCK UP, will you?!!

Start parenting, and stop whining. No other country in the world is "remediating learning loss". Everyone is just picking up the pieces of whatever happened and working twice as hard to catch up. Why don't you do that instead of waiting for everything to be handed to you on a silver platter?

You'll be waiting a looong time, OP. Meanwhile, everyone else will pass you by.

Oh, F%CK OFF, will you?!!

Read the article, and the thread, before you jump in with your judgy venom. As I have said, this isn't about MY kids. My kids are fine. I'm not expecting any extras from DCPS for them.

This is about this whole generation of kids, and particularly the ones who were disadvantaged to begin with, which in DCPS is the majority.

And where do you get the idea that no other country is going to address learning loss? Of course, no other civilized country closed schools for as long as some areas of the US, so they have less to remediate. They also probably didn't start out with such a massive achievement gap as this country did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Oh BUCK UP, will you?!!

Start parenting, and stop whining. No other country in the world is "remediating learning loss". Everyone is just picking up the pieces of whatever happened and working twice as hard to catch up. Why don't you do that instead of waiting for everything to be handed to you on a silver platter?

You'll be waiting a looong time, OP. Meanwhile, everyone else will pass you by.

Here you have it OP, they cannot make it any more clear that they do not give a $hit about the lost generation of kids. They simply do not care and they have no shame or dignity about it either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Oh BUCK UP, will you?!!

Start parenting, and stop whining. No other country in the world is "remediating learning loss". Everyone is just picking up the pieces of whatever happened and working twice as hard to catch up. Why don't you do that instead of waiting for everything to be handed to you on a silver platter?

You'll be waiting a looong time, OP. Meanwhile, everyone else will pass you by.

Here you have it OP, they cannot make it any more clear that they do not give a $hit about the lost generation of kids. They simply do not care and they have no shame or dignity about it either.

OP here. I am going to assume that that poster wasn't a teacher or school leader, but a privileged, smug, insufferable parent, whose despicable cluelessness ultimately won't matter to anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly these kids will be a lost generation. They will never recover from the harm. The only thing left to do IMO is vote against any candidate that supports teacher unions, so they can’t harm yet more children.

Your solution is to cast the most vulnerable aside because you think you can vote a different system into place?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly these kids will be a lost generation. They will never recover from the harm. The only thing left to do IMO is vote against any candidate that supports teacher unions, so they can’t harm yet more children.

Your solution is to cast the most vulnerable aside because you think you can vote a different system into place?

Oh, I don’t want to cast them aside. The union and administrators have already done that, though. Voting to support them is endorsing the people who have destroyed education for our most vulnerable kids and who have already and permanently case these most vulnerable kids aside.

I will never trust a union-endorsed candidate again.

[Anonymous]

Agree 100%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly these kids will be a lost generation. They will never recover from the harm. The only thing left to do IMO is vote against any candidate that supports teacher unions, so they can’t harm yet more children.

Your solution is to cast the most vulnerable aside because you think you can vote a different system into place?

Oh, I don’t want to cast them aside. The union and administrators have already done that, though. Voting to support them is endorsing the people who have destroyed education for our most vulnerable kids and who have already and permanently case these most vulnerable kids aside.

I will never trust a union-endorsed candidate again.

If you want to continue to bash the union, please do so for relevant reasons. As a member I can you that we are an embarrassing, incompetent organization that can't even successfully run their own elections. If you think that we have some sort of organizing power or political leverage you are sorely mistaken. We are a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly these kids will be a lost generation. They will never recover from the harm. The only thing left to do IMO is vote against any candidate that supports teacher unions, so they can’t harm yet more children.

Your solution is to cast the most vulnerable aside because you think you can vote a different system into place?

Oh, I don’t want to cast them aside. The union and administrators have already done that, though. Voting to support them is endorsing the people who have destroyed education for our most vulnerable kids and who have already and permanently case these most vulnerable kids aside.

I will never trust a union-endorsed candidate again.

If you want to continue to bash the union, please do so for relevant reasons. As a member I can you that we are an embarrassing, incompetent organization that can't even successfully run their own elections. If you think that we have some sort of organizing power or political leverage you are sorely mistaken. We are a joke.

NP. That's probably true, but clearly they had just enough power to throw wrenches into the Mayor's attempt at reopening in the fall of 2020. It doesn't take that much power to be destructive.

[Anonymous]

Learning was greatly interrupted by the pandemic. We should absolutely address that with intensive remediation - 1:1 tutoring, summer school, etc.

But don’t blame distance learning. The study doesn’t support the causation, only the correlation.

From the summary of the report:
It is possible that the relationships we have observed are not entirely causal, that family stress in the districts that remained remote both caused the decline in achievement and drove school officials to keep school buildings closed. However, even if that were the case, our results highlighting the differential losses in high poverty schools that went remote are still critical for targeting recovery efforts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learning was greatly interrupted by the pandemic. We should absolutely address that with intensive remediation - 1:1 tutoring, summer school, etc.

But don’t blame distance learning. The study doesn’t support the causation, only the correlation.

From the summary of the report:
It is possible that the relationships we have observed are not entirely causal, that family stress in the districts that remained remote both caused the decline in achievement and drove school officials to keep school buildings closed. However, even if that were the case, our results highlighting the differential losses in high poverty schools that went remote are still critical for targeting recovery efforts.

Oh give me a break. And at least provide a link.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learning was greatly interrupted by the pandemic. We should absolutely address that with intensive remediation - 1:1 tutoring, summer school, etc.

But don’t blame distance learning. The study doesn’t support the causation, only the correlation.

From the summary of the report:
It is possible that the relationships we have observed are not entirely causal, that family stress in the districts that remained remote both caused the decline in achievement and drove school officials to keep school buildings closed. However, even if that were the case, our results highlighting the differential losses in high poverty schools that went remote are still critical for targeting recovery efforts.

I think anyone with common sense and most of us who observed their children during the pandemic *can* confidently blame distance learning.

No doubt family stress and other factors mattered, too. But full-time distance learning was a bad experience for most PK-12 students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Learning was greatly interrupted by the pandemic. We should absolutely address that with intensive remediation - 1:1 tutoring, summer school, etc.

But don’t blame distance learning. The study doesn’t support the causation, only the correlation.

From the summary of the report:
It is possible that the relationships we have observed are not entirely causal, that family stress in the districts that remained remote both caused the decline in achievement and drove school officials to keep school buildings closed. However, even if that were the case, our results highlighting the differential losses in high poverty schools that went remote are still critical for targeting recovery efforts.

Oh give me a break. And at least provide a link.

It’s the study linked in OP’s article.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly these kids will be a lost generation. They will never recover from the harm. The only thing left to do IMO is vote against any candidate that supports teacher unions, so they can’t harm yet more children.

Your solution is to cast the most vulnerable aside because you think you can vote a different system into place?

Oh, I don’t want to cast them aside. The union and administrators have already done that, though. Voting to support them is endorsing the people who have destroyed education for our most vulnerable kids and who have already and permanently case these most vulnerable kids aside.

I will never trust a union-endorsed candidate again.

If you want to continue to bash the union, please do so for relevant reasons. As a member I can you that we are an embarrassing, incompetent organization that can't even successfully run their own elections. If you think that we have some sort of organizing power or political leverage you are sorely mistaken. We are a joke.

NP. That's probably true, but clearly they had just enough power to throw wrenches into the Mayor's attempt at reopening in the fall of 2020. It doesn't take that much power to be destructive.

That’s only because DCPS blatantly violated the contract, they made it easy to stop opening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly these kids will be a lost generation. They will never recover from the harm. The only thing left to do IMO is vote against any candidate that supports teacher unions, so they can’t harm yet more children.

Your solution is to cast the most vulnerable aside because you think you can vote a different system into place?

Oh, I don’t want to cast them aside. The union and administrators have already done that, though. Voting to support them is endorsing the people who have destroyed education for our most vulnerable kids and who have already and permanently case these most vulnerable kids aside.

I will never trust a union-endorsed candidate again.

If you want to continue to bash the union, please do so for relevant reasons. As a member I can you that we are an embarrassing, incompetent organization that can't even successfully run their own elections. If you think that we have some sort of organizing power or political leverage you are sorely mistaken. We are a joke.

NP. That's probably true, but clearly they had just enough power to throw wrenches into the Mayor's attempt at reopening in the fall of 2020. It doesn't take that much power to be destructive.

That’s only because DCPS blatantly violated the contract, they made it easy to stop opening.

They violated the contract when they tried to reopen in August 2020? Not talking about the November debacle.