We need universal summer school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worried about high school students — being u prepared for college or career. They do not have time to catch-up the way an elementary or ECE student does.

The ugly truth is that the majority of DC high school graduates are not only unprepared for college or work but read and write on a 5th grade level at BEST buy many worse. Have you seen the test scores for some of these schools? I think ballot at 4% of students who met grade expectation for math. And that’s before COVID. Those kids are a lost cause. Anymore dumbing down of grade level work in younger grades will only send more UMC families out of DCPS even sooner. I now know 7 families who are leaving mid year, some would have left around 5th but now they truly see what a shit show DCPS is.

Wtf would you do with parents who have their own issues and can't help? When DCPS doesn't even train teachers in the best practices for teaching reading? Within 3 year 54% of DCPS teachers LEAVE. Everyone squawking for teachers to quit the funny thing is half of them will.

DCPS is a a show all right, everything I have learned is from PD's I have paid for myself and my own personal experience in my masters and phd programs. DCPS just throws out the same initiatives over and over. I'm not a licensed therapist and to be honest I want to build rapport with parents but I don't want to deal with their personal crap. But I have to because it's messing with their child.

Teachers are being asked to do more and more things in DC instead of allocating things to the city and hiring more social workers and counselors.

This! This drives me bonkers! Of course DCPS is good at none of it’s jobs when it’s tasked with too many.

DCPS should focus on education — of all kids, from the struggling to the geniuses in need of more challenge.

Other agencies should be tasked with the social work. DCPS should cooperate with these people, but it shouldn’t be what they are accountable for (nor should the police be the chief social workers.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to teach summer school for most children??

The teachers who are currently refusing to do their jobs, ie all of them. They’re paid a yearly salary, right? They can work an entire year just like everyone else.

Teachers have worked every contracted day, just as millions of other Americans have who previously worked in person and now teleworked. They are not working all summer for free.

But you already knew that. Grow up. Your tantrums are embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to teach summer school for most children??

The teachers who are currently refusing to do their jobs, ie all of them. They’re paid a yearly salary, right? They can work an entire year just like everyone else.

No, they have ten month contracts and are furloughed for two months without pay. They will not teach without compensation. Additionally, they are not contracted to work during the summer and you couldn't force them to work, even for extra pay. It would have to be voluntary and paid at an agreed upon rate. My district has optional summer school and our summer compensation is much higher than our usual rate.

No kidding. They won't teach NOW with compensation.

They are teaching. They will not babysit in a pandemic without compensation.

God, you people are so pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to teach summer school for most children??

The teachers who are currently refusing to do their jobs, ie all of them. They’re paid a yearly salary, right? They can work an entire year just like everyone else.

No, they have ten month contracts and are furloughed for two months without pay. They will not teach without compensation. Additionally, they are not contracted to work during the summer and you couldn't force them to work, even for extra pay. It would have to be voluntary and paid at an agreed upon rate. My district has optional summer school and our summer compensation is much higher than our usual rate.

No kidding. They won't teach NOW with compensation.

The sense of entitlement among teachers is something to behold.

You spelled "parents" wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to teach summer school for most children??

The teachers who are currently refusing to do their jobs, ie all of them. They’re paid a yearly salary, right? They can work an entire year just like everyone else.

Teachers have worked every contracted day, just as millions of other Americans have who previously worked in person and now teleworked. They are not working all summer for free.

But you already knew that. Grow up. Your tantrums are embarrassing.

My kids only get two hours of instruction each day, and it is garbage.

If I did something similar in my job, I would have been fired months ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to teach summer school for most children??

The teachers who are currently refusing to do their jobs, ie all of them. They’re paid a yearly salary, right? They can work an entire year just like everyone else.

Teachers have worked every contracted day, just as millions of other Americans have who previously worked in person and now teleworked. They are not working all summer for free.

But you already knew that. Grow up. Your tantrums are embarrassing.

My kids only get two hours of instruction each day, and it is garbage.

If I did something similar in my job, I would have been fired months ago.

That's your fault though. My child's teacher asks for feedback monthly and implements it. She created a donor's choose project that was over $1,200 fully funded and now all the kids in her class have manipulatives and physical work that aligns with online work. I'm amazed at the home materials, I'm sure it took her ages to laminate and cut all these pieces. But my son loves it, I think it really helps him engage. Along with the simple story time props, and interactive lessons and even scavenger hunt games. My kid is in K and he has an IEP and still doing well because I bring any concerns to his gen ed teacher and sped teacher.

I don't lie and pretend it's all good if it isn't, what's the point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to teach summer school for most children??

The teachers who are currently refusing to do their jobs, ie all of them. They’re paid a yearly salary, right? They can work an entire year just like everyone else.

Teachers have worked every contracted day, just as millions of other Americans have who previously worked in person and now teleworked. They are not working all summer for free.

But you already knew that. Grow up. Your tantrums are embarrassing.

My kids only get two hours of instruction each day, and it is garbage.

If I did something similar in my job, I would have been fired months ago.

That's your fault though. My child's teacher asks for feedback monthly and implements it. She created a donor's choose project that was over $1,200 fully funded and now all the kids in her class have manipulatives and physical work that aligns with online work. I'm amazed at the home materials, I'm sure it took her ages to laminate and cut all these pieces. But my son loves it, I think it really helps him engage. Along with the simple story time props, and interactive lessons and even scavenger hunt games. My kid is in K and he has an IEP and still doing well because I bring any concerns to his gen ed teacher and sped teacher.

I don't lie and pretend it's all good if it isn't, what's the point?

How is that her fault? My child is in K and their teacher has done none of those things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Worried about high school students — being u prepared for college or career. They do not have time to catch-up the way an elementary or ECE student does.

The ugly truth is that the majority of DC high school graduates are not only unprepared for college or work but read and write on a 5th grade level at BEST buy many worse. Have you seen the test scores for some of these schools? I think ballot at 4% of students who met grade expectation for math. And that’s before COVID. Those kids are a lost cause. Anymore dumbing down of grade level work in younger grades will only send more UMC families out of DCPS even sooner. I now know 7 families who are leaving mid year, some would have left around 5th but now they truly see what a shit show DCPS is.

Wtf would you do with parents who have their own issues and can't help? When DCPS doesn't even train teachers in the best practices for teaching reading? Within 3 year 54% of DCPS teachers LEAVE. Everyone squawking for teachers to quit the funny thing is half of them will.

DCPS is a a show all right, everything I have learned is from PD's I have paid for myself and my own personal experience in my masters and phd programs. DCPS just throws out the same initiatives over and over. I'm not a licensed therapist and to be honest I want to build rapport with parents but I don't want to deal with their personal crap. But I have to because it's messing with their child.

Teachers are being asked to do more and more things in DC instead of allocating things to the city and hiring more social workers and counselors.

DC needs boarding school for a lot of kids, to get them away from their homelife and into some structure. Kids should be not passed on to the next grade without mastering the current grade level in reading at a minimum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's going to teach summer school for most children??

The teachers who are currently refusing to do their jobs, ie all of them. They’re paid a yearly salary, right? They can work an entire year just like everyone else.

Teachers have worked every contracted day, just as millions of other Americans have who previously worked in person and now teleworked. They are not working all summer for free.

But you already knew that. Grow up. Your tantrums are embarrassing.

My kids only get two hours of instruction each day, and it is garbage.

If I did something similar in my job, I would have been fired months ago.

my kid had"independent learning" from 10:30-12:30, which means play on apps. then one hour of some teaching, watching videos in "class" and done at 2:45. This is second grade DCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To make up for this complete waste of a school year. These kids are so far behind.

+1

[Anonymous]

Um DCPS pays for summer school through their per pupil dollars. Charter schools can also choose to pay for that even though they don’t. DCPS should not foot the bill for charter students.

[Anonymous]

So tired of teachers conflating teaching with learning. Your output is student learning, not teaching. You should know better, if you paid attention in any of your M.Ed classes.

Teachers think that as long as they're standing in front of a camera somewhere, that they are performing their jobs. They are not. They are performing their jobs when students are generally making adequate progress. They are not.