Math recovery plan released

[Anonymous]

Is there any recovery plan for ELA and other subjects (e.g., history, science)? In MS they all miss at least 40% of the normal teaching hours...

We have supplemented math at home, so at least from the MAP-M score I don't see a drop in math. But my DS's MAP-R score dropped significantly and I'm a bit worried. Last year his ELA teacher was superb, and this year the teacher was quite lame. That might contribute to the drop too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ours too, but some parents are still very bitter over schools shutting down during the pandemic. They resented spending time with their kids and are looking for every opportunity to complain. This past year was hard but honestly the switch to Eureka which has no equivalent for compacted was more of an issue than anything.

As soon as you start spouting this nonsense, everything you say after that can be discounted. If you can't (or won't try to) understand the complexities involved for some families dealing with childcare and remote schooling issues, then you obviously don't have the analytical skills or compassion to comprehend much of anything else.

And I say this as someone whose family has weathered the pandemic just fine, but is also able to have empathy for those who struggled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The recovery plan only goes up to Precalculus. What about the students who took Calculus or higher? What about the Seniors that just graduated?

MCPS failed all students this year simply by not teaching the curriculum in all math classes. There’s no way for all students to recover what was lost this year.

No they didn't. My kids teachers covered everything. Some kids parents however dropped the ball

Mentioning a topic may be "covering" it. It's not the same as spending time on it.

They covered it enough that DC was able to get a perfect score on the grade 6 module 6 assessment so I'd say that was covered, but if it makes you feel better to make up excuses be my guest.

The thread you are responding to is about Calculus. A much harder subject for parents to teach their kid than Grade 6 math that our kids were doing in Elementary school. There was not enough time built into the school schedule for AP classes to be adequately taught. There’s also no recovery plan for sophomores and juniors who took Calculus this year. Many seniors are SOL and probably will need to retake Calculus in college.

However, I guess that doesn’t matter much because your child did well with simple Grade 6 math that any parent can teach to make up for the lack of effort by MCPS.

+1. All these ES parents don't understand that our high schoolers in upper level courses had significant amounts of material not covered.

[Anonymous]

I don't see the path for current 7th graders in algebra I

[Anonymous]

OP, thank you for posting, especially missed content link.
Based on personal experience, missed content not only goes by school but really by class/teacher. My DC is in AIM now (6th grade), they are still learning new concepts (at least did last week) and from what I can see only Pythagorean theorem was fully skipped (other concepts might not have been "in depth"). I know for sure they did shapes and volumes, because my DC struggled with that. My friend's kid is in IM (7th grade) in the same school with different teacher and they have fully skipped the concepts as well as didnt spend any time on things they were supposed to cover, like teaching concept and testing on it same day. That class was behind ours by 2 weeks of content throughout the year and the teacher announced no new material till the end of the year, just re-teaching of "slope".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ours too, but some parents are still very bitter over schools shutting down during the pandemic. They resented spending time with their kids and are looking for every opportunity to complain. This past year was hard but honestly the switch to Eureka which has no equivalent for compacted was more of an issue than anything.

As soon as you start spouting this nonsense, everything you say after that can be discounted. If you can't (or won't try to) understand the complexities involved for some families dealing with childcare and remote schooling issues, then you obviously don't have the analytical skills or compassion to comprehend much of anything else.

And I say this as someone whose family has weathered the pandemic just fine, but is also able to have empathy for those who struggled.

Really? It seems spot on to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ours too, but some parents are still very bitter over schools shutting down during the pandemic. They resented spending time with their kids and are looking for every opportunity to complain. This past year was hard but honestly the switch to Eureka which has no equivalent for compacted was more of an issue than anything.

As soon as you start spouting this nonsense, everything you say after that can be discounted. If you can't (or won't try to) understand the complexities involved for some families dealing with childcare and remote schooling issues, then you obviously don't have the analytical skills or compassion to comprehend much of anything else.

And I say this as someone whose family has weathered the pandemic just fine, but is also able to have empathy for those who struggled.

Really? It seems spot on to me.

Well then you an the PP seem lacking in analytical skills and empathy. Two peas in a pod.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to figure out the implications of this for my rising 6th grader. As a 5th grader this year, she did 5/6 math. In the letter we received from the middle school with her course selections, it lists Applied Investigations in Math (AIM), which I *think* is the continuation of the pre-pandemic accelerated track. If we received this letter, do you think that her placement could still change? Or, is the recovery plan going to track her into something different, based on scores at the end of this school year? Thanks for any explanations -