Are public schools everywhere in the US getting bad post-pandemic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time to man up and educate your kids at home.

or, at least, collaborate with the schools to teach your sons/daughters what they really need to know in life. Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

This is false.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

This is false.

you bet...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

This is false.

you bet...

Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.

[Anonymous]

Mine goes to Longfellow in McLean and it's been great, but keep in mind that at home we supplement a LOT in the form of extra classes, private tutors etc. I am a firm believer in "education is far too important to be left solely to the schools". My logic is that by supplementing I am spending 20% of the cost of a private school.

He will be going to McLean HS next year. Even though McLean HS has a lot of students but I have heard it's quite solid as far as academics are concerned, sure there are disruptions here and there but for the most part things have been fine, everybody is super focused on good grades. Which school pyramid in NOVA are you in?

On a completely separate note, this phenomenon is worldwide, I went to a modest public school in a third world country around 35 yrs back and I can't tell you how dedicated and good all my teachers were. In the same breath, students were expected to follow strict discipline practices and could be punished for disrupting behavior. Things were so no nonsense back then, I can't believe the coddling we do these days.

[Anonymous]

^above PP, so even in my home country things have changes. Students don't show the same respect and as a result teachers don't give same commitment to them, so much nonsense perpetuated by parents who refuse to parent at home, it's everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

This is false.

you bet...

Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.

for learning?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

This is false.

you bet...

Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.

for learning?

Yeah. Home school is so poorly regulated in a lot of places that parents can teach kids nothing or even transparently false superstitious nonsense and not be breaking any laws or suffer any consequences. Bill Gothard's "Advance Training Institute" curriculum ("wisdom booklets") used by a lot of homeschoolers for decades, for example, is a joke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

This is false.

you bet...

Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.

for learning?

Yeah. Home school is so poorly regulated in a lot of places that parents can teach kids nothing or even transparently false superstitious nonsense and not be breaking any laws or suffer any consequences. Bill Gothard's "Advance Training Institute" curriculum ("wisdom booklets") used by a lot of homeschoolers for decades, for example, is a joke.

Homeschoolers typically score better than both public and private school students on standardized tests and there are plenty of public school students being taught false superstitious nonsense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Public schools are a joke and beyond the social aspect provide little value.

This is false.

you bet...

Public schools are better than parochial schools and both are way better than home schooling.

for learning?

Yeah. Home school is so poorly regulated in a lot of places that parents can teach kids nothing or even transparently false superstitious nonsense and not be breaking any laws or suffer any consequences. Bill Gothard's "Advance Training Institute" curriculum ("wisdom booklets") used by a lot of homeschoolers for decades, for example, is a joke.

Homeschoolers typically score better than both public and private school students on standardized tests and there are plenty of public school students being taught false superstitious nonsense.

Facts.

[Anonymous]

Everything is bad post-covid.

Also we are not post-covid. It is here. With us. Now.

[Anonymous]

None of the homeschooled kids I know have ever taken a standardized test. For some, that's part of the reason they homeschool their kids. The testing in public schools is excessive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of the homeschooled kids I know have ever taken a standardized test. For some, that's part of the reason they homeschool their kids. The testing in public schools is excessive.

You realize there is a spectrum?

I don’t necessarily think it’s that great that the kids you speak of have never been tested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The schools aren't bad, they're just not equipped to hire and retain quality teachers so teachers are leaving, plus kids have emotional disregulation/trauma they can't articulate coming out of the pandemic that at this point, they've been repeatedly punished for and schools don't have the resources to help with that.

No, society has decided that it is too “mean” to hold people accountable for misbehavior and crime, and it has filtered down even to late assignments, grades, everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pandemic decimated AP exam performance.

https://moderatelymoco.com/mcps-advanced-placement-ap-tests-scores-by-school-2019-2021-data-analysis/

Let's see if 2023 shows recovery.

Don’t worry - the CB is busy changing exams to “improve” the scores, especially the differentials between races. - AP teacher