Applications down 21% on myschooldc

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what is this scenario that pits my kid against a kid from Alabama? I sure hope you all aren't letting your kids hear and sense your concern that they are falling behind others in other parts of the country. That's a big pressure for your 3rd grader to bear.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole families want to live in the city thing might have peaked.

You wish, closet Republican who hates DC.

Instead, your party is hemorrhaging votes elsewhere as cities continue to grow and resist GOP anti-intellectualism and anti-democracy efforts.

What part of "applications are down 21 percent" do you not understand?

Not to point out the obvious, but it's DC that has banned children from going to school. Schools in the vast majority of the rest of the country are completely opened. In many red states, schools never closed during the pandemic.

A child in Alabama is going to have a full year more of school than a same-aged child in DCPS. Which means your child is going to get smoked by that kid in Alabama when it comes time for standardized tests.

Data doesnt lie. Check out the data on red states. This doesnt mean kids from the south "cant read" but it doesnt mean overall they are outperformed year after year. The MOY reading data in Kindergarten at our school has looked similar to previous years. Our teachers have busted their butts for the past year and it shows. So yeah, put our Kindergarteners up against the ones in Alabama in June! I'll gladly take the match up.

Is this a joke? Are you not familiar with Alabama schools???

It's very strange that people in DC think their kids can essentially skip 14 months and counting of school, and still remain ahead of schools that never closed. You're going to be in for a rude awakening.

People in DC vastly underestimate how much their kids have missed with distance learning.

They also vastly underestimate people in deep red states because they like the sense of superiority they feel when they assume people in Alabama and elsewhere are idiots who can't read.

Yep. I went to public elementary, middle, and high school in Alabama, followed by HYPS for college and graduate school.

There are quite a few public school systems in Alabama that are far better than DCPS, and some that are worse.

Either way, all the kids there have had a fairly normal year. They haven’t been isolated in their homes, not going to school and not interacting with peers. Whatever that has meant for other segments of society, the children there have had a relatively much better year than our children.

DC parents are going to be shocked at how little their children have gotten out of distance learning. It's the dog that hasn't barked.

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Anonymous wrote:what is this scenario that pits my kid against a kid from Alabama? I sure hope you all aren't letting your kids hear and sense your concern that they are falling behind others in other parts of the country. That's a big pressure for your 3rd grader to bear.

life? children in dc on average will probably never catch up with kids that have been in school all this time. most will probably be permanently behind.

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Anonymous wrote:what is this scenario that pits my kid against a kid from Alabama? I sure hope you all aren't letting your kids hear and sense your concern that they are falling behind others in other parts of the country. That's a big pressure for your 3rd grader to bear.

life? children in dc on average will probably never catch up with kids that have been in school all this time. most will probably be permanently behind.

We don't know that at all. Particularly for the kids of your typical DCUM poster, if they are not below the poverty line and their mothers are well educated, these kids will not be permanently behind. And, I know our school is increasing its summer programming with a focus on COVID recovery for kids who don't fit that profile. Again, I think the risk of hammering this "my kid will always be behind" message is likely more detrimental.

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It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

Our school shared data with parents on the learning loss it's seeing and we knew it would be bad, but it was simply jaw dropping. People are such denial about what a year of distance learning has done to these children.

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

No, more like parents like you are in denial.

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

No, more like parents like you are in denial.

Nah, more like I keep a pulse on my kid's development and based on his performance I dont need to pull a Chicken Little, but have fun!

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

No, more like parents like you are in denial.

Nah, more like I keep a pulse on my kid's development and based on his performance I dont need to pull a Chicken Little, but have fun!

Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
Shrugs.

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

Our school shared data with parents on the learning loss it's seeing and we knew it would be bad, but it was simply jaw dropping. People are such denial about what a year of distance learning has done to these children.

What school? Where is the power point?

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

Our school shared data with parents on the learning loss it's seeing and we knew it would be bad, but it was simply jaw dropping. People are such denial about what a year of distance learning has done to these children.

Can you share? We don't really have any info on this because they only measure with a test they've never given before until this year.

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

Our school shared data with parents on the learning loss it's seeing and we knew it would be bad, but it was simply jaw dropping. People are such denial about what a year of distance learning has done to these children.

I'm not in denial that DL has been crappy. My main point is that fretting about children being behind on abstract measurements of success that often aren't reflective of a kid's abilities is futile, and if any of this attitude is getting conveyed to your kids (and they see and hear everything) you're causing harm too. I think we need to be really careful about that as parents.

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Anonymous wrote:what is this scenario that pits my kid against a kid from Alabama? I sure hope you all aren't letting your kids hear and sense your concern that they are falling behind others in other parts of the country. That's a big pressure for your 3rd grader to bear.

This. It seems like folks would be okay with this cluster of a year as long as they could still look down at Alabama KIDS. Wow.

The thing this thread seems to overlook, though, is that gaps can be filled and holes can be mended. Your kids probably did miss a lot this year, socially and academically. But this is not the first time a kid's learning has been disrupted--kids move, kids deal with illness, deaths in the family, kids get caught up, but they can make it up. What is new is that this is happening to an entire cohort. In some ways this is better than one kid falling behind on their own--the class as a whole will have to focus on remediation. But it is on both the schools and the parents to figure out how to make up what is lost. This means that we as parents cannot stick our heads in the ground and say, "Distance Learning is Doing Fine!" and just ignore the gaps our kids have suffered. And we cannot throw our hands in the air and say, "They Will Never Make It Up!"

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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if PP wants her child to be behind so she can say "See! Look what virtual learning did to Junior! Now he's never going to succeed and the evil DCPS teachers are all to blame! If only we lived in Alabama and had a shot at life."

From Alabama here: anyone who says this has no concept of the high level of education and educational attainment of DC people.

I went to a fancy college and met kids from the DMV there. I was way way WAY behind compared to them.

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Anonymous wrote:what is this scenario that pits my kid against a kid from Alabama? I sure hope you all aren't letting your kids hear and sense your concern that they are falling behind others in other parts of the country. That's a big pressure for your 3rd grader to bear.

This. It seems like folks would be okay with this cluster of a year as long as they could still look down at Alabama KIDS. Wow.

The thing this thread seems to overlook, though, is that gaps can be filled and holes can be mended. Your kids probably did miss a lot this year, socially and academically. But this is not the first time a kid's learning has been disrupted--kids move, kids deal with illness, deaths in the family, kids get caught up, but they can make it up. What is new is that this is happening to an entire cohort. In some ways this is better than one kid falling behind on their own--the class as a whole will have to focus on remediation. But it is on both the schools and the parents to figure out how to make up what is lost. This means that we as parents cannot stick our heads in the ground and say, "Distance Learning is Doing Fine!" and just ignore the gaps our kids have suffered. And we cannot throw our hands in the air and say, "They Will Never Make It Up!"

Actual research is pretty clear that gaps in early childhood education are sticky. They can really only be made up with individualized and intensive instruction. This is expensive.