Applications down 21% on myschooldc

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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.

Name the school.

There is no way a fair assessment can been done.

My kid isn’t taking any assessments (iReady)because I won’t let him - well don’t log him in. So he looks like he’s losing on paper. He’s not btw. He’s reading and doing math and science on grade level.

But so much time to chicken little here and not parent, do time management or tell their husband to do his job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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Btw any Alabamians that are in DC are not representative of Alabama. They moved here for a reason.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Name the school.

There is no way a fair assessment can been done.

My kid isn’t taking any assessments (iReady)because I won’t let him - well don’t log him in. So he looks like he’s losing on paper. He’s not btw. He’s reading and doing math and science on grade level.

But so much time to chicken little here and not parent, do time management or tell their husband to do his job.

so you’re so sure your kid is on target that you won’t let him take assessments. makes a ton of sense.

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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.

And in many red states a lot of people died. So what’s your point

I think you are a teenager who is bored. Kudos to you

Btw Alabama has different standards than DC. In some red states you can’t say climate change by law in the schools. Getting an A at one of those schools is like getting a C at Banneker

Loads of friends posting acceptance day photos and no one has an Alabama school. Go figure.

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Totally new poster here, but I will say that our school has indicated substantial concern about K/1 literacy and 3/4/5 math results on the MOY assessments. For K/1, they actually reached out to certain families to re-administer in person in case the technology was the issue (it wasn't or at least not all of it), and for 3rd grade, they actually changed the normal school day structure/content to try to cram in extra directed math work.

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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.

Friendly neighborhood moderate Republican here. Please take your rant to the politics forum. And a word to the wise about hemorrhaging votes. You don't need to banish good progressives for the apostasy of wanting schools open and you shouldn't want to either. How people feel about reopening doesn't necessarily match their voting behavior. They have nothing to do with one another.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally new poster here, but I will say that our school has indicated substantial concern about K/1 literacy and 3/4/5 math results on the MOY assessments. For K/1, they actually reached out to certain families to re-administer in person in case the technology was the issue (it wasn't or at least not all of it), and for 3rd grade, they actually changed the normal school day structure/content to try to cram in extra directed math work.

Your DCPS? That's good to hear. At least they're being honest and proactive about it. For my 3rd grader, it is totally obvious that he has lost ground in writing and not learned as much math as he would have in a normal year. Social skills, even worse. However, when I think about if this had been his K or 1st grade year, I literally get palpitations. Those years are so, so important -- you really have to be delusion to think that DL hasn't had a huge, negative impact on basic literacy all over DC.

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Our school shared what they are seeing with learning loss and it is horrendous. It's almost like the kids were never in school this year. This is at a high SES school.

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Anonymous wrote:Our school shared what they are seeing with learning loss and it is horrendous. It's almost like the kids were never in school this year. This is at a high SES school.

Which school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our school shared what they are seeing with learning loss and it is horrendous. It's almost like the kids were never in school this year. This is at a high SES school.

Which school?

all of them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school shared what they are seeing with learning loss and it is horrendous. It's almost like the kids were never in school this year. This is at a high SES school.

Which school?

all of them.

Name the school. I doubt you have been to all high SES schools in DCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school shared what they are seeing with learning loss and it is horrendous. It's almost like the kids were never in school this year. This is at a high SES school.

Which school?

all of them.

Name the school. I doubt you have been to all high SES schools in DCPS

Do you actually believe there has been no learning loss at all levels? It's obvious to everyone except you, apparently. I forget, which is it -- are we supposed to stop talking about "learning loss" because it's discouraging, or are we denying that there is any learning loss?

https://www.curriculumassociates.com/-/media/mainsite/files/i-ready/iready-understanding-student-needs-paper-winter-results-2021.pdf
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/covid-19-and-learning-loss-disparities-grow-and-students-need-help#
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2022376118
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/103549/the-effect-of-covid-19-learning-loss-on-adult-outcomes.pdf

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Again - no one is saying kids aren’t learning in the most optimal way.

We are questioning that any DCPS school showed you data to this affect.

And that any comparison of years is flawed esp if the tests were done online