The behaviors at school are AWFUL this week

[Anonymous]

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My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I plan lessons but kids just stop coming. Kids had awful behavior this year and now have stopped showing up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I plan lessons but kids just stop coming. Kids had awful behavior this year and now have stopped showing up.

Umm so which is it? They stop coming or they come and have bad behavior? You teach the children that are there! Children need structure!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I plan lessons but kids just stop coming. Kids had awful behavior this year and now have stopped showing up.

Umm so which is it? They stop coming or they come and have bad behavior? You teach the children that are there! Children need structure!

They're complaining about loosing control of their class but their statements make it clear they don't even live here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I plan lessons but kids just stop coming. Kids had awful behavior this year and now have stopped showing up.

Umm so which is it? They stop coming or they come and have bad behavior? You teach the children that are there! Children need structure!

Really? Oh. I didn't know. Kids are allowed to get away with a lot of behavior now that they never used to before. Most have stopped showing up which is a blessing I teach the students who do show up. They are working in groups to create a product, market it and pitch it to the grade level.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I plan lessons but kids just stop coming. Kids had awful behavior this year and now have stopped showing up.

Umm so which is it? They stop coming or they come and have bad behavior? You teach the children that are there! Children need structure!

Umm, the PP said they plan lessons. They never said they DON'T teach the children that are there. If anything, it was implied that they obviously do. If you're a parent, you're also responsible for providing your kid with structure. The problem is right here...parents don't expect to have to do anything anymore. They just rely on schools and other people to raise their kids.

[Anonymous]

The last two weeks of school are usually always like that. School is basically converted into a daycare center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.

I do not know what school your kid is at but we are not allowed to just "give up" the month of June. We taught new content all the way until this week. This week, I introduced shapes and taught it my way: creating shapescapes, forming shapes with our bodies while marching, and using playdough to make shapes. Then, we did read-alouds that taught lessons and were culturally diverse and made plays, diorama's and wrote poems about them. This week, we had field day, water day and a movie day but it is grade or school-wide, so it is uniform. Our kids and parents are grateful, happy and well-behaved.

[Anonymous]

And no, this is not a W school but an elementary school in Gaithersburg.

[Anonymous]

I’m a new HS teacher and this year was very tough. I slogged through it but then completely hit the wall last week so basically stopped doing stuff. I let kids socialize and have fun and I spent time working with kids who needed to improve their grade.
So excited that tomorrow is the last day for students. I love some of the kids but others are a complete nightmare. I had no idea that teaching was this hard.
Kids these days have a short attention span.

[Anonymous]

I teach arts classes after school, and I have definitely noticed that ES kids seem more "feral" this year. I chalk that up to COVID -- they have been in individualized environments during formative times. They have also been without social stimulation for part of that, so i seems to be kind of an explosive mix. But, it is frustrating. These are nice kids, but I have never had so many instances of kids just blatantly breaking the rules and thinking it's so cute. Or, just bolting off. Also, there are the kids who think they are in a private session, interrupting constantly and dominating the class. I hope things will work themselves out as kids are more consistently a part of a learning community, but I have often thought to myself, "How do teachers deal with this all day?" Especially after all the challenges they have had to deal with during COVID -- re-implementing curriculum online, shifting to hybrid, shifting to in person w/ many protocols, teaching masked, risking infection, getting infected. It's a lot. I am so grateful for my kids' teachers. Also grateful my kids are in HS, more autonomous and better able to socialize throughout COVID via distance outdoors because they are good about following protocols as well as having ability to text, etc.

Hang in there ES parents. And, teachers! (And bus drivers and cafeteria workers, etc etc etc)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.



We had to stop teaching to get in all of the ridiculous testing. The testing windows end before school does so it's a lot of time with nothing to do.

So there's literally nothing that you can review or teach or go further in depth on? These kids were out of school for a year and are behind. Reviewing core math concepts and reading a short book for the last few weeks of school doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I plan lessons but kids just stop coming. Kids had awful behavior this year and now have stopped showing up.

Umm so which is it? They stop coming or they come and have bad behavior? You teach the children that are there! Children need structure!

Really? Oh. I didn't know. Kids are allowed to get away with a lot of behavior now that they never used to before. Most have stopped showing up which is a blessing I teach the students who do show up. They are working in groups to create a product, market it and pitch it to the grade level.

Is this marketplace? My kids did that in 3rd grade. What a fun assignment! They key was not to hoard your money because, it would be worthless after the day. Mine amassed a small fortune selling HP wands that she made from tree branches and then bought out all the cake pops and brownies. Success! Hope this assignment is a bright spot for you, Teacher, and that you are getting parent support. Thank you for all you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids' teachers basically stopped teaching the Friday before Memorial Day. June has been a complete waste, with nearly zero learning going on. The only teachers who seem to give a damn are the band teachers. Kids have been asking if they even need to go in this week because it's just movies and down time. I don't want to hear one word about learning loss when teachers basically gave up these last 3 weeks.

Name the school. If you're going to make claims like this, at least have the guts to name the school this supposedly happened at. We'll wait.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

This is sad. Probably a lot of issues going on here. Teachers aren't teaching any new material, and haven't been for the past month for the most part, so students aren't learning anything - boredom might be a factor, along with stress and the need for attention/stimulation. And of course some parents in some of these schools don't seem to have control over their children and aren't making sure their children don't mistreat others, but that has always been a problem.

My kids aren't experiencing this at their schools, thankfully. I'm taking that these are schools in rougher, lower income areas like Silver Spring?

My kid in a mixed income SS school has been working her tail off for her classes. Please don't generalize mixed income areas as "rougher."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They were supposed to be out today. But they extended thru Friday because iof snow days.

And what are they doing in class? Watching movies. These are AP classes. Why are we potentially exposing kids to COVID to watch movies? This is stupid

My junior's AP classes are not full of movies. They're doing AP World History and AP Calculus until the bitter end, it seems!

Didn't they take the AP exams a month ago? Why are they still teaching content now -- seems a little too late.

Because shockingly, knowledge itself is important, not just a score on the test!

Yes, my kids' AP classes are doing more frivolous things this week, but previously (after the AP), they were working on related topics that aren't on the AP. Like a film unit for AP Lit, learning about taxes and finances for AP Gov, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s almost as if many, many of their other friends and cousins and neighbor kids are already enjoying summer break, and the ridiculous school year that your leadership has created and stretched out instead of building in an appropriate amount of weather event dates is causing the kids to be fatigued and ready for summer already.

Op here--trust me I am not happy with my leadership about this and many other things. But these behaviors aren't the "I'm bored and antsy for summer! So hard to concentrate!" Behaviors. These are the--IDGAF when someone tells me to sit down in the cafeteria for the 10th time, I will throw food across 3 tables just to piss off the cafeteria monitor. It's the I'm going to start a fight on the playground and kick and hurt the admin when they come to break it up. I will scream my head off when I don't get my way and it's so loud it makes other kids cry. That kind of thing. It's not excessive giggling or the lines in the hallways being crazy because they're all wiggly that has been happening the last week of school for a thousand years. It's all very amplified this year. And they just don't care, which is scary. Because the teachers can't keep any semblance of control unless the students are taught to respect adults, and if that dwindles--the education system as we know it will be in crisis. It already is, but it's not yet at the tipping point. Imagine where your kids would go if there just weren't enough humans to safely staff a school. There won't be schools! Then where will your kids go during the day to learn and be careful for while parents work? How will we have an educated populace? I'm truly worried about this.

Sounds like the teacher in this case can't control their classroom. I'm sorry your kids have teachers like this but this seems to be more of an exception than anything else.

What an ignorant, inflammatory and judgment response. Walk in her shoes.

It is so sad and frustrating when people flippantly replace empathy and care with judgment. Ugh.

Teachers have had an insanely difficult couple of years. Kids ARE acting out way more than before. We should be supporting and encouraging them. Not tearing them down to score points on DCUM.