If your kid is thriving with DL....

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Interesting how so many responses to this thread are from people who wish to deny that any child could be doing just fine right now.

Many kids out there are struggling. Some kids are fine. Whether you like it or not, some kids are coming through this okay, and you don't get to tell their parents that they don't understand their own children.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how so many responses to this thread are from people who wish to deny that any child could be doing just fine right now.

Many kids out there are struggling. Some kids are fine. Whether you like it or not, some kids are coming through this okay, and you don't get to tell their parents that they don't understand their own children.

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I’m not sure what school district you are in,but MCPS has a set curriculum that is followed in normal times. Much of it building upon what was learned the previous years. If they don’t get the full curriculum there will be a difficult adjustment when the curriculum goes back to normal. Also, a fair number of middle schoolers at our school start taking high school credits in 6th.

We are new to MCPS middle school and our kids are adjusting well to DL, but I suspect they just aren't learning very much. They only have each class twice a week as opposed to five times a week. They are definitely not over-screen timed because they have lots of breaks and no homework. But I suspect at year-end assessments we will find they didn't learn thet much. I'm OK with that (although I probably was more Ok when I thought this was going to be a 4-6 month thing than a year + thing). DH and I work 50-60 hours a week, we just have no time to supervise or supplement. So as long as they are happy and healthy and learning something that will have to be enough for now. I figure my parents had war-time disruptions of their education, had to go to school in two totally different languages than the ones they spoke at home, due to multiple occupations of their country. They came through just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Personally, I don't trust many parents' a
I’m not sure what school district you are in,but MCPS has a set curriculum that is followed in normal times. Much of it building upon what was learned the previous years. If they don’t get the full curriculum there will be a difficult adjustment when the curriculum goes back to normal. Also, a fair number of middle schoolers at our school start taking high school credits in 6th.

We are new to MCPS middle school and our kids are adjusting well to DL, but I suspect they just aren't learning very much. They only have each class twice a week as opposed to five times a week. They are definitely not over-screen timed because they have lots of breaks and no homework. But I suspect at year-end assessments we will find they didn't learn thet much. I'm OK with that (although I probably was more Ok when I thought this was going to be a 4-6 month thing than a year + thing). DH and I work 50-60 hours a week, we just have no time to supervise or supplement. So as long as they are happy and healthy and learning something that will have to be enough for now. I figure my parents had war-time disruptions of their education, had to go to school in two totally different languages than the ones they spoke at home, due to multiple occupations of their country. They came through just fine.

You could make the time to support your kids but choose not to. Big difference. In MS, depending on the school, normal is only to have class 2-3 days a week on a rotation.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how so many responses to this thread are from people who wish to deny that any child could be doing just fine right now.

Many kids out there are struggling. Some kids are fine. Whether you like it or not, some kids are coming through this okay, and you don't get to tell their parents that they don't understand their own children.

What does it matter if people are skeptical?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how so many responses to this thread are from people who wish to deny that any child could be doing just fine right now.

Many kids out there are struggling. Some kids are fine. Whether you like it or not, some kids are coming through this okay, and you don't get to tell their parents that they don't understand their own children.

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People have different personalities, not everyone is struggling al the time right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting how so many responses to this thread are from people who wish to deny that any child could be doing just fine right now.

Many kids out there are struggling. Some kids are fine. Whether you like it or not, some kids are coming through this okay, and you don't get to tell their parents that they don't understand their own children.

What does it matter if people are skeptical?

I think its sad they are skeptical as if their kids are struggling, instead of blasting someone else, they should look to support their kids and help them be successful. I'm always shocked by the post of parents who aren't supervising, monitoring or checking at all what their kids are doing but this goes for in person too. Or, the oh we are so important and busy.. you should never be to important or busy for your kids.