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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC really seems to like their elementary school — has made some close friends and occasionally drops some new knowledge they learned. But as a parent, I’m at a loss. It’s been a few years (yeah with a pandemic in the middle) but I know absolutely NOTHING about what happens after I drop my kid off every day. We are given literally no curriculum overview, no work comes back to me, we meet with the teacher twice a year for 15 minutes. When I talk to other kids or parents in other schools they know what their kid is learning, they are drowning in artwork and journal entries and tests and projects. The kids get to present on a subject or write poetry or make villages out of macaroni or whatever. I am seeing no evidence of the work that contributed to good or bad “grades”. I get that there are many modes of education and maybe my kid is getting an amazing education but I would never know! Nothing is shared (I’ve asked) and we aren’t allowed to literally go in the school (ACPS way behind the times).

Am I asking too much? Should I drop it if my kid isn’t coming home crying? [/quote]

Curriculum overview is presented at Back to School night (yes it was virtual, but still was presented there) and if you email the teacher, they should also direct you to where it is on the website. Do they do work on SeeSaw? Maybe if the teacher is not sending home papers (that can happen if they are working in a journal or notebook instead of worksheets), they are doing a lot of things on SeeSaw which we got used to in the pandemic. You can connect to the students SeeSaw account and see what they are doing. I would reach out to the teacher and see what they say.[/quote]

You have to make an appointment with ACPS and go to a separate location to review curriculum. [/quote]

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