75% of Maryland 8th grade students and 69 percent of 4th grade students are at or below

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason Asian kids did fine during the pandemic. Their scores, including SAT scores, just keep going up. Why is that?

The article says that the downward trend was from 2013. Asian-Americans have already figured out that there are a lot of weaknesses in American education system and so they have been supplementing and teaching their kids at home.

Mostly the Asian-American parents (and specifically the moms) are very well-educated and can teach Math to their children so the children are coming out ahead in STEM. Culturally, there is a huge emphasis on education within families and the community as a whole. Finally, most Asian-Americans first gen were highly educated people from their countries who came to the US. They are not the poorest of the poor, uneducated migrants.

The weaknesses in American education system that most Asians notice and try to overcome are -
1) Shortened school year
2) Lack of textbooks
3) Lack of final exams
4) Lack of discipline in classrooms. Disruptive students are tolerated. Parents are not responsible.
5) Lack of a well defined curriculum, syllabus that is shared with students and parents. Textbooks and units of study that are mapped to the syllabus and curriculum.
6) Not failing any students in any grade and holding them back
7) Grade inflation. Students earn grades for doing homework.
8) Graded assignments and tests are not returned back to students and parents.
9) No comprehensive, standardized curriculum, syallabus, textbooks, testing and school year nationally for all grades and all subjects. Even SAT is going away.

What the US does extremely well -
1) Free education for everybody
2) Free transportation for coming and going to school
3) Free meals
4) Free school supplies.

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I agree with most of this, which is why the academic success of Asian-American students should not be used to argue why what we are doing now is just fine for any family that cares about their kids' education. If you can only succeed through extensive supplementation, there is a problem. The lack of textbooks and defined syllabus are a huge part of why it is hard for parents to help their kids - it takes independent work to provide that support, which may don't have.

+1. I was reading through the exhaustive list of what needs to be overcome, it's no wonder parents are daunted. My dad used to read my textbooks to help me with math. My kids have no textbooks! Not to mention that the way kids teach math is different from when I was a kid.

I also just don't understand how parents find all this time for extra supplementation and have kids willing to sit and do it after a full day of school plus homework. Are no one else's kids exhausted at the end of the day?

There is no exhaustive list to overcome. There is no extensive supplementation. It is normal daily teaching at home so that the kids are able to review what they learned at school and if there are any lack of comprehension the parents can clarify for the child.

The parents need to priortize their kid's education above all. The school system is already giving free schooling, meals, supplies and transportation. Sometimes they are also giving free after and before care. They cannot do much more than this. Maybe they can give textbooks.

Parents need to step up and make sure that their kids are studying at home every day. 1 hour of daily review at home in the ES and MS years is all that is needed. However, only 40% of White Americans are college educated. Can you imagine that? Most parents are incapable of teaching their children because they are also basically uneducated. Never mind the URM and low SES households.

You do need textbooks and that is one thing that parents can do for their children. Get them textbooks before school opens. Buy the textbooks second hand from Amazon and use that to guide your children.

Are the kids exhausted from being in school? Sure. My kids are. But, they are expected to do all homework at school during lunch break and during the bus-ride home. The daily teaching happens when my husband or I get back from work and it happens for an hour or so every day. Weekends and holidays also include an hour or so of studying daily. Summer will also include vacation travel, some fun camps and some academic camps. Of course, this also means that the lives of parents revolve around the kids and their education.

Ultimately, parents are responsible if their kids are at or below grade.

I feel like you are illustrating part of the problem though- how do you do a daily review at home when they are provided so little materials to bring home? Oh, you're buying textbooks that used to be provided by the school. So now parents have to figure out WHICH textbook to buy and then pay for them. Textbooks aren't cheap, even used ones, and then what if you make a poor selection that doesn't jive with what is being taught in class?

Also, just because someone is college educated doesn't make them a good teacher. But it's great that you are and I'm sure your kids are high achievers because of it.

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason Asian kids did fine during the pandemic. Their scores, including SAT scores, just keep going up. Why is that?

The article says that the downward trend was from 2013. Asian-Americans have already figured out that there are a lot of weaknesses in American education system and so they have been supplementing and teaching their kids at home.

Mostly the Asian-American parents (and specifically the moms) are very well-educated and can teach Math to their children so the children are coming out ahead in STEM. Culturally, there is a huge emphasis on education within families and the community as a whole. Finally, most Asian-Americans first gen were highly educated people from their countries who came to the US. They are not the poorest of the poor, uneducated migrants.

The weaknesses in American education system that most Asians notice and try to overcome are -
1) Shortened school year
2) Lack of textbooks
3) Lack of final exams
4) Lack of discipline in classrooms. Disruptive students are tolerated. Parents are not responsible.
5) Lack of a well defined curriculum, syllabus that is shared with students and parents. Textbooks and units of study that are mapped to the syllabus and curriculum.
6) Not failing any students in any grade and holding them back
7) Grade inflation. Students earn grades for doing homework.
8) Graded assignments and tests are not returned back to students and parents.
9) No comprehensive, standardized curriculum, syallabus, textbooks, testing and school year nationally for all grades and all subjects. Even SAT is going away.

What the US does extremely well -
1) Free education for everybody
2) Free transportation for coming and going to school
3) Free meals
4) Free school supplies.

+1

I agree with most of this, which is why the academic success of Asian-American students should not be used to argue why what we are doing now is just fine for any family that cares about their kids' education. If you can only succeed through extensive supplementation, there is a problem. The lack of textbooks and defined syllabus are a huge part of why it is hard for parents to help their kids - it takes independent work to provide that support, which may don't have.

+1. I was reading through the exhaustive list of what needs to be overcome, it's no wonder parents are daunted. My dad used to read my textbooks to help me with math. My kids have no textbooks! Not to mention that the way kids teach math is different from when I was a kid.

I also just don't understand how parents find all this time for extra supplementation and have kids willing to sit and do it after a full day of school plus homework. Are no one else's kids exhausted at the end of the day?

There is no exhaustive list to overcome. There is no extensive supplementation. It is normal daily teaching at home so that the kids are able to review what they learned at school and if there are any lack of comprehension the parents can clarify for the child.

The parents need to priortize their kid's education above all. The school system is already giving free schooling, meals, supplies and transportation. Sometimes they are also giving free after and before care. They cannot do much more than this. Maybe they can give textbooks.

Parents need to step up and make sure that their kids are studying at home every day. 1 hour of daily review at home in the ES and MS years is all that is needed. However, only 40% of White Americans are college educated. Can you imagine that? Most parents are incapable of teaching their children because they are also basically uneducated. Never mind the URM and low SES households.

You do need textbooks and that is one thing that parents can do for their children. Get them textbooks before school opens. Buy the textbooks second hand from Amazon and use that to guide your children.

Are the kids exhausted from being in school? Sure. My kids are. But, they are expected to do all homework at school during lunch break and during the bus-ride home. The daily teaching happens when my husband or I get back from work and it happens for an hour or so every day. Weekends and holidays also include an hour or so of studying daily. Summer will also include vacation travel, some fun camps and some academic camps. Of course, this also means that the lives of parents revolve around the kids and their education.

Ultimately, parents are responsible if their kids are at or below grade.

I feel like you are illustrating part of the problem though- how do you do a daily review at home when they are provided so little materials to bring home? Oh, you're buying textbooks that used to be provided by the school. So now parents have to figure out WHICH textbook to buy and then pay for them. Textbooks aren't cheap, even used ones, and then what if you make a poor selection that doesn't jive with what is being taught in class?

Also, just because someone is college educated doesn't make them a good teacher. But it's great that you are and I'm sure your kids are high achievers because of it.

You don’t have to buy textbooks people. There are so so many online materials, often free. Way more than we had 30 years ago. I for one am glad we don’t have to worry about those crazy encyclopedia sets anymore, which are now all decaying in landfills somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no doubt that there is a loss of learning due to the pandemic and virtual learning. Im just curious as to what some of you would have done differently? I mean going virtual was the only option at a time. Our kids are alive. Not saying they didn’t pay a price, of course, but what’s here is here .

No. Actually, it’s possible we lost more kids due to school buildings being shut down from the pandemic. There has been a huge increase in mental health issues and suicides amongst kids since Covid began.

Zero kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County as a result of Covid. ZERO. That was with schools open/schools closed, prior to the Covid shot/after the Covid shot.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

We did not ‘save kids’ lives’ by keeping schools closed. Not at all.

Agree with the second poster. Some people cannot face what a wrong headed decision this was. Private schools were open. Public schools in red-leaning areas were open. Schools in other countries were open. C'mon, it's 2022, we can open our eyes and admit that we absolutely failed the kids.

Yes to this. Admit it was a mistake and let’s try to fix it.

The death rate of teachers in FLA does not point to it being “a mistake”.

What it was was a terrible situation .. a pandemic, that has caused setbacks everywhere in the US.

Btw 68% of students are at or above the national standard, there are 10-20% that will always be below so we really need to help the other 20%.

Not to minimize death, but where are you getting your statistics? I found this report about the deaths of Florida educators in the 2020-21 school year.

https://feaweb.org/covid19/fea-safe-schools-report/

It mentions 46 deaths of educators, including teachers, bus drivers, custodians, etc. If you look at the articles, some of them mention contracting COVID outside of school while on vacation or break.

In addition, schools here would never have opened without masks, as was the case in Florida.

So your theory is that more teachers in FLA got COVID from vacation?

You can google it and get the raw data instead a processed version from “the state of FLA”? Lol

DP. Ok, so in FL, what was the Covid rate among teachers vs. the general population? Because unless you were living under a rock, lots of things were different in FL, not just schools being open. You don't have to go on vacation to get Covid.

Teachers died in FLA at an alarming rate vs area that did not have schools open.

That is complete false. Which ‘area’ are you comparing Florida to? NYC?

Please post a legitimate link to back up your bogus claim.

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason Asian kids did fine during the pandemic. Their scores, including SAT scores, just keep going up. Why is that?

The article says that the downward trend was from 2013. Asian-Americans have already figured out that there are a lot of weaknesses in American education system and so they have been supplementing and teaching their kids at home.

Mostly the Asian-American parents (and specifically the moms) are very well-educated and can teach Math to their children so the children are coming out ahead in STEM. Culturally, there is a huge emphasis on education within families and the community as a whole. Finally, most Asian-Americans first gen were highly educated people from their countries who came to the US. They are not the poorest of the poor, uneducated migrants.

The weaknesses in American education system that most Asians notice and try to overcome are -
1) Shortened school year
2) Lack of textbooks
3) Lack of final exams
4) Lack of discipline in classrooms. Disruptive students are tolerated. Parents are not responsible.
5) Lack of a well defined curriculum, syllabus that is shared with students and parents. Textbooks and units of study that are mapped to the syllabus and curriculum.
6) Not failing any students in any grade and holding them back
7) Grade inflation. Students earn grades for doing homework.
8) Graded assignments and tests are not returned back to students and parents.
9) No comprehensive, standardized curriculum, syallabus, textbooks, testing and school year nationally for all grades and all subjects. Even SAT is going away.

What the US does extremely well -
1) Free education for everybody
2) Free transportation for coming and going to school
3) Free meals
4) Free school supplies.

+1

I agree with most of this, which is why the academic success of Asian-American students should not be used to argue why what we are doing now is just fine for any family that cares about their kids' education. If you can only succeed through extensive supplementation, there is a problem. The lack of textbooks and defined syllabus are a huge part of why it is hard for parents to help their kids - it takes independent work to provide that support, which may don't have.

+1. I was reading through the exhaustive list of what needs to be overcome, it's no wonder parents are daunted. My dad used to read my textbooks to help me with math. My kids have no textbooks! Not to mention that the way kids teach math is different from when I was a kid.

I also just don't understand how parents find all this time for extra supplementation and have kids willing to sit and do it after a full day of school plus homework. Are no one else's kids exhausted at the end of the day?

There is no exhaustive list to overcome. There is no extensive supplementation. It is normal daily teaching at home so that the kids are able to review what they learned at school and if there are any lack of comprehension the parents can clarify for the child.

The parents need to priortize their kid's education above all. The school system is already giving free schooling, meals, supplies and transportation. Sometimes they are also giving free after and before care. They cannot do much more than this. Maybe they can give textbooks.

Parents need to step up and make sure that their kids are studying at home every day. 1 hour of daily review at home in the ES and MS years is all that is needed. However, only 40% of White Americans are college educated. Can you imagine that? Most parents are incapable of teaching their children because they are also basically uneducated. Never mind the URM and low SES households.

You do need textbooks and that is one thing that parents can do for their children. Get them textbooks before school opens. Buy the textbooks second hand from Amazon and use that to guide your children.

Are the kids exhausted from being in school? Sure. My kids are. But, they are expected to do all homework at school during lunch break and during the bus-ride home. The daily teaching happens when my husband or I get back from work and it happens for an hour or so every day. Weekends and holidays also include an hour or so of studying daily. Summer will also include vacation travel, some fun camps and some academic camps. Of course, this also means that the lives of parents revolve around the kids and their education.

Ultimately, parents are responsible if their kids are at or below grade.

I feel like you are illustrating part of the problem though- how do you do a daily review at home when they are provided so little materials to bring home? Oh, you're buying textbooks that used to be provided by the school. So now parents have to figure out WHICH textbook to buy and then pay for them. Textbooks aren't cheap, even used ones, and then what if you make a poor selection that doesn't jive with what is being taught in class?

Also, just because someone is college educated doesn't make them a good teacher. But it's great that you are and I'm sure your kids are high achievers because of it.

Ignore the textbook harpy. They're simply misguided and attached to 19th century teaching methods. MCPS has everything online. If they knew how to use a computer, they'd realize what a waste of time that nonsense is. I'm glad I live in a county that doesn't spend $$$ on making kids lug those vestiges of old times around and helps them learn how things get done today.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no doubt that there is a loss of learning due to the pandemic and virtual learning. Im just curious as to what some of you would have done differently? I mean going virtual was the only option at a time. Our kids are alive. Not saying they didn’t pay a price, of course, but what’s here is here .

No. Actually, it’s possible we lost more kids due to school buildings being shut down from the pandemic. There has been a huge increase in mental health issues and suicides amongst kids since Covid began.

Zero kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County as a result of Covid. ZERO. That was with schools open/schools closed, prior to the Covid shot/after the Covid shot.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

We did not ‘save kids’ lives’ by keeping schools closed. Not at all.

Agree with the second poster. Some people cannot face what a wrong headed decision this was. Private schools were open. Public schools in red-leaning areas were open. Schools in other countries were open. C'mon, it's 2022, we can open our eyes and admit that we absolutely failed the kids.

Yes to this. Admit it was a mistake and let’s try to fix it.

The death rate of teachers in FLA does not point to it being “a mistake”.

What it was was a terrible situation .. a pandemic, that has caused setbacks everywhere in the US.

Btw 68% of students are at or above the national standard, there are 10-20% that will always be below so we really need to help the other 20%.

Not to minimize death, but where are you getting your statistics? I found this report about the deaths of Florida educators in the 2020-21 school year.

https://feaweb.org/covid19/fea-safe-schools-report/

It mentions 46 deaths of educators, including teachers, bus drivers, custodians, etc. If you look at the articles, some of them mention contracting COVID outside of school while on vacation or break.

In addition, schools here would never have opened without masks, as was the case in Florida.

So your theory is that more teachers in FLA got COVID from vacation?

You can google it and get the raw data instead a processed version from “the state of FLA”? Lol

DP. Ok, so in FL, what was the Covid rate among teachers vs. the general population? Because unless you were living under a rock, lots of things were different in FL, not just schools being open. You don't have to go on vacation to get Covid.

Teachers died in FLA at an alarming rate vs area that did not have schools open.

That is complete false. Which ‘area’ are you comparing Florida to? NYC?

Please post a legitimate link to back up your bogus claim.

They did and please show me a link stating otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no doubt that there is a loss of learning due to the pandemic and virtual learning. Im just curious as to what some of you would have done differently? I mean going virtual was the only option at a time. Our kids are alive. Not saying they didn’t pay a price, of course, but what’s here is here .

No. Actually, it’s possible we lost more kids due to school buildings being shut down from the pandemic. There has been a huge increase in mental health issues and suicides amongst kids since Covid began.

Zero kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County as a result of Covid. ZERO. That was with schools open/schools closed, prior to the Covid shot/after the Covid shot.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

We did not ‘save kids’ lives’ by keeping schools closed. Not at all.

Agree with the second poster. Some people cannot face what a wrong headed decision this was. Private schools were open. Public schools in red-leaning areas were open. Schools in other countries were open. C'mon, it's 2022, we can open our eyes and admit that we absolutely failed the kids.

Yes to this. Admit it was a mistake and let’s try to fix it.

The death rate of teachers in FLA does not point to it being “a mistake”.

What it was was a terrible situation .. a pandemic, that has caused setbacks everywhere in the US.

Btw 68% of students are at or above the national standard, there are 10-20% that will always be below so we really need to help the other 20%.

Not to minimize death, but where are you getting your statistics? I found this report about the deaths of Florida educators in the 2020-21 school year.

https://feaweb.org/covid19/fea-safe-schools-report/

It mentions 46 deaths of educators, including teachers, bus drivers, custodians, etc. If you look at the articles, some of them mention contracting COVID outside of school while on vacation or break.

In addition, schools here would never have opened without masks, as was the case in Florida.

So your theory is that more teachers in FLA got COVID from vacation?

You can google it and get the raw data instead a processed version from “the state of FLA”? Lol

DP. Ok, so in FL, what was the Covid rate among teachers vs. the general population? Because unless you were living under a rock, lots of things were different in FL, not just schools being open. You don't have to go on vacation to get Covid.

Teachers died in FLA at an alarming rate vs area that did not have schools open.

I believe it- my cousin teaches in FL and she said she was among only a handful of teachers in her building to wear masks. She also skipped the teacher happy hours. She never caught Covid until well after she had been vaccinated but others were falling ill all the time.

At my sister's school in FL several staff were even in the ICU for weeks. It was so sketchy that they had to put their lives on the line to placate the right-wing politicians.

[Anonymous]

Well gee we had a global pandemic, a president that would rather let people die than tell the truth, a republican party spewing lies and misinformation and you all are thinking the schools are the problem??

OMG Parents are the problem.

Any idiot in the US that voted for Republicans because of schools is a literal idiot.

If your kid lost education during that time it is on you, not the teachers not the administrators. YOU

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I will say I was definitely unprepared to teach my kid how to read, but balanced literacy (especially virtual Benchmark) wasn't working for them so I had to figure it out. Just reading to my kid every night, which is what they tell you to do in kindergarten and 1st grade, wasn't enough either. I am all for helping my kids with their homework and providing some enrichment but it would be good if you could rely on school to provide a strong foundation for learning to read. Particularly given the length of the ELA blocks.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes disaggregation would be helpful. But I imagine the stats will reflect similar results. Meanwhile the teachers were telling us how everything was fine and virtual school and students loved it better than virtual. 🙄

Many of us knew all along this would happen.

Virtual school was fine for kids who had parents who cared enough to make sure the kids were getting what they needed.

Except they only presented 80% of the content, even to your super-smart, well-behaved DC. So no, your kid isn't 'fine."

At least at our school the teachers went above and beyond to present the full curriculum. Just saying that isn't really true even though it's a popular thing to repeat.

Really? What MCPS Middle school taught the full Algebra 1 curriculum over virtual learning? As far as I know, every school pared down the material to about 70% of what should have been covered. We were actually told this! Is it untrue? Did some MCPS MSs actually cover all the material?

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Anonymous wrote:I will say I was definitely unprepared to teach my kid how to read, but balanced literacy (especially virtual Benchmark) wasn't working for them so I had to figure it out. Just reading to my kid every night, which is what they tell you to do in kindergarten and 1st grade, wasn't enough either. I am all for helping my kids with their homework and providing some enrichment but it would be good if you could rely on school to provide a strong foundation for learning to read. Particularly given the length of the ELA blocks.

At our school, the teachers spend all their time with the kids who are struggling to read for various reasons. Kids who are above or close to grade level end up being ignored. It isn't until the higher grades where there's more differentiation that it changes.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no doubt that there is a loss of learning due to the pandemic and virtual learning. Im just curious as to what some of you would have done differently? I mean going virtual was the only option at a time. Our kids are alive. Not saying they didn’t pay a price, of course, but what’s here is here .

No. Actually, it’s possible we lost more kids due to school buildings being shut down from the pandemic. There has been a huge increase in mental health issues and suicides amongst kids since Covid began.

Zero kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County as a result of Covid. ZERO. That was with schools open/schools closed, prior to the Covid shot/after the Covid shot.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

We did not ‘save kids’ lives’ by keeping schools closed. Not at all.

Agree with the second poster. Some people cannot face what a wrong headed decision this was. Private schools were open. Public schools in red-leaning areas were open. Schools in other countries were open. C'mon, it's 2022, we can open our eyes and admit that we absolutely failed the kids.

Yes to this. Admit it was a mistake and let’s try to fix it.

The death rate of teachers in FLA does not point to it being “a mistake”.

What it was was a terrible situation .. a pandemic, that has caused setbacks everywhere in the US.

Btw 68% of students are at or above the national standard, there are 10-20% that will always be below so we really need to help the other 20%.

Not to minimize death, but where are you getting your statistics? I found this report about the deaths of Florida educators in the 2020-21 school year.

https://feaweb.org/covid19/fea-safe-schools-report/

It mentions 46 deaths of educators, including teachers, bus drivers, custodians, etc. If you look at the articles, some of them mention contracting COVID outside of school while on vacation or break.

In addition, schools here would never have opened without masks, as was the case in Florida.

So your theory is that more teachers in FLA got COVID from vacation?

You can google it and get the raw data instead a processed version from “the state of FLA”? Lol

DP. Ok, so in FL, what was the Covid rate among teachers vs. the general population? Because unless you were living under a rock, lots of things were different in FL, not just schools being open. You don't have to go on vacation to get Covid.

Teachers died in FLA at an alarming rate vs area that did not have schools open.

I believe it- my cousin teaches in FL and she said she was among only a handful of teachers in her building to wear masks. She also skipped the teacher happy hours. She never caught Covid until well after she had been vaccinated but others were falling ill all the time.

At my sister's school in FL several staff were even in the ICU for weeks. It was so sketchy that they had to put their lives on the line to placate the right-wing politicians.

Did they wear good masks and refrain from other risky activities like going to restaurants, large gatherings. etc.? Did they get vaccinated once eligible? If they weren't doing these things then they bear some responsibility as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Well gee we had a global pandemic, a president that would rather let people die than tell the truth, a republican party spewing lies and misinformation and you all are thinking the schools are the problem??

OMG Parents are the problem.

Any idiot in the US that voted for Republicans because of schools is a literal idiot.

If your kid lost education during that time it is on you, not the teachers not the administrators. YOU

*this*

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Anonymous wrote:Well gee we had a global pandemic, a president that would rather let people die than tell the truth, a republican party spewing lies and misinformation and you all are thinking the schools are the problem??

OMG Parents are the problem.

Any idiot in the US that voted for Republicans because of schools is a literal idiot.

If your kid lost education during that time it is on you, not the teachers not the administrators. YOU

BS

We live in Montgomery County. This is the MCPS forum. Montgomery County is a deep blue, Democrat-controlled county in a deep blue state. And for the past few years, we have had Biden as President. He’s as Democrat as they come.

Our mask mandates and school closures (and playground closures) were decided wholly by our local health officials.

Blaming Republicans for issues in MoCo is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Well gee we had a global pandemic, a president that would rather let people die than tell the truth, a republican party spewing lies and misinformation and you all are thinking the schools are the problem??

OMG Parents are the problem.

Any idiot in the US that voted for Republicans because of schools is a literal idiot.

If your kid lost education during that time it is on you, not the teachers not the administrators. YOU

+ 1 million. But unfortunately things will only get worse and worse because fewer and fewer parents accept that responsibility. There’s no changing a culture that doesn’t value education. I grew up in Germany and it is night and day.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no doubt that there is a loss of learning due to the pandemic and virtual learning. Im just curious as to what some of you would have done differently? I mean going virtual was the only option at a time. Our kids are alive. Not saying they didn’t pay a price, of course, but what’s here is here .

No. Actually, it’s possible we lost more kids due to school buildings being shut down from the pandemic. There has been a huge increase in mental health issues and suicides amongst kids since Covid began.

Zero kids age 0-17 have died of Covid in Montgomery County as a result of Covid. ZERO. That was with schools open/schools closed, prior to the Covid shot/after the Covid shot.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/data/case-counts.html#deaths-age

We did not ‘save kids’ lives’ by keeping schools closed. Not at all.

Agree with the second poster. Some people cannot face what a wrong headed decision this was. Private schools were open. Public schools in red-leaning areas were open. Schools in other countries were open. C'mon, it's 2022, we can open our eyes and admit that we absolutely failed the kids.

Yes to this. Admit it was a mistake and let’s try to fix it.

The death rate of teachers in FLA does not point to it being “a mistake”.

What it was was a terrible situation .. a pandemic, that has caused setbacks everywhere in the US.

Btw 68% of students are at or above the national standard, there are 10-20% that will always be below so we really need to help the other 20%.

Not to minimize death, but where are you getting your statistics? I found this report about the deaths of Florida educators in the 2020-21 school year.

https://feaweb.org/covid19/fea-safe-schools-report/

It mentions 46 deaths of educators, including teachers, bus drivers, custodians, etc. If you look at the articles, some of them mention contracting COVID outside of school while on vacation or break.

In addition, schools here would never have opened without masks, as was the case in Florida.

So your theory is that more teachers in FLA got COVID from vacation?

You can google it and get the raw data instead a processed version from “the state of FLA”? Lol

DP. Ok, so in FL, what was the Covid rate among teachers vs. the general population? Because unless you were living under a rock, lots of things were different in FL, not just schools being open. You don't have to go on vacation to get Covid.

Teachers died in FLA at an alarming rate vs area that did not have schools open.

That is complete false. Which ‘area’ are you comparing Florida to? NYC?

Please post a legitimate link to back up your bogus claim.

Maryland and Virginia