Public school kids falling behind

[Anonymous]

Do you think public school kids in virtual classes are falling behind their peers in private school with in- person classes especially kids in middle and high schools?

[Anonymous]

I don't think private high schools are in person.

[Anonymous]

They were already behind before covid. Most private schools are 1-2 grade levels ahead and/or know the material more in depth.

[Anonymous]

Come on, you're painting with much too broad a brush.

Our oldest attends a solid private middle school, after having attending a DCPS school from Pres3-5th grade. Her teachers tell us that she's around a year AHEAD of most of her private school peers in math and on track in reading. She is, however, a bit behind in writing. We're working to catch her up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were already behind before covid. Most private schools are 1-2 grade levels ahead and/or know the material more in depth.

It hasn’t been our experience. My kid started 9th grade in a private school this year. He spent all his years in public school before this. He is taking the highest level Math offered in 9th Grade ( honors Algebra 2/ trigonometry). Most of the 9th graders taking this class are transfers from other schools. So far his grades are even better in English and World History which I am truly surprised as I thought he may have been behind private school kids Who gets a lot of feedback but it doesn’t seem like. Waiting to see his first progress reports and comments from teachers on the first 6 weeks of work.

[Anonymous]

Trumper post and I'm tired of these.

Trump supporters here we go. Time of face fact.s

Trump is destroying us! He needs to be voted out.

If you support him with schools on DL or closed. Job losses etc. You are a complete idiot at this point in time.

Trump = DL = complete failure!

Trump virus catastrophe.

These threads are ridiculous. If you have a complaint call Trump. or other Trumpers that support him.

Between QANON, anti semitism, White power, Trump profiting in office.

Some please tell me on this thread who supports Trump what his plan is to get kids back in school.

What is his plan to move forward besides winging it. Because given the number of threads on DL or schools not opening I think it is perfectly acceptable to ask the President of the US what his plan is??

[Anonymous]

I think my public school kid is at least 4 years ahead of private school kids her age. No 6 years. Who CARES?! I just don’t care who is ahead, who is behind. You do your thing and I will do mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think my public school kid is at least 4 years ahead of private school kids her age. No 6 years. Who CARES?! I just don’t care who is ahead, who is behind. You do your thing and I will do mine.

Whatever, its not even funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think private high schools are in person.

Wrong. Ours is. Others are as well.

[Anonymous]

No, my kids are in advanced classes in MCPS where the students are serious and the teachers have high standards. They work hard and are most definitely not falling behind - the teachers wouldn’t let them, nor their middle-class parents!

I don’t understand this whining that DL is so much worse than in person. For labs or sports or some arts, perhaps, but not for math, most science classes, languages, English or social studies. My son’s high school paid for an expensive virtual lab platform and he does chemistry experiments there, which in the circumstances we need to find acceptable. That’s his ONLY class where his experience is different! All the others are the same. He signed up for digital art this year, so even that’s not a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, my kids are in advanced classes in MCPS where the students are serious and the teachers have high standards. They work hard and are most definitely not falling behind - the teachers wouldn’t let them, nor their middle-class parents!

I don’t understand this whining that DL is so much worse than in person. For labs or sports or some arts, perhaps, but not for math, most science classes, languages, English or social studies. My son’s high school paid for an expensive virtual lab platform and he does chemistry experiments there, which in the circumstances we need to find acceptable. That’s his ONLY class where his experience is different! All the others are the same. He signed up for digital art this year, so even that’s not a problem.

Are you saying that he is mostly getting the same quality and amount of instructions that he would have if the school was in person. I am seeing my middle school kid’s grades falling behind. He says it is hard to focus in an online class and due to little two way interaction with teachers and peers.

[Anonymous]

Look at it this way - with many urban/northeastern districts on DL for the semester (likely year) we are giving the rural/southern states a chance to catch up. Mississippi, for instance, typically ranks at or near the bottom in performance metrics. They've largely returned to in-person school. Will be interesting to see if they move up the ranks at all.

[Anonymous]

My public school kid is getting an excellent education with virtual this time. I’m disappointed about how hybrid is going to go because it will be a cluster. If you have ever volunteered in school you will know that kids don’t spend all day with active instruction there is a ton of busy work. So even though it seems like it’s not a lot of instruction it is. And oh if your kid doesn’t pay attn at home they don’t at school either. My last comment doesn’t really have anything to do with this thread, but I just want to scream it somewhere.

[Anonymous]

We pulled our kids into private for this year, as it's full-time in-person. Ours are in K and 2nd. They seem to be really flourishing, especially the kindergartner. I think at that young age, a lot of learning is about in-person interactions and tasks (how to write letters and numbers, interacting with kids, raising your hand, etc) and that just seems to lend itself to in-person instruction better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think my public school kid is at least 4 years ahead of private school kids her age. No 6 years. Who CARES?! I just don’t care who is ahead, who is behind. You do your thing and I will do mine.

This. If my kid was going to fall behind private school kids it would be because we're not rich or pushy, not because of Covid. He is practicing writing numbers up to 10 in virtual K just like he would be in public K, while we are trying to work on addition and subtraction outside of school.