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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for subbing!  We NEED you![/quote]

+1000.[b] I don’t know why so many people are being nasty to OP.[/b]

Education begins at home. I have a niece in 1st and a nephew in 3rd. They had a father working in COVID wards and a mother WFH in a high-stress job. They were put through Kumon to supplement the poor DL and they’re perfectly fine. Other parents chose not to do this and they’re being defensive. And don’t whine to me about their privilege. Many of you have the same privilege yet you failed your kids.[/quote]

Perhaps because OP was being nasty about young kids and their parents.[/quote]

Some parents have really let their kids down over the last 18 months. This is an undeniable fact. Yes, DL was a disaster, but some parents tried to mitigate the disaster, others did not or made it worse by allowing and encouraging terrible behavior and learned helplessness.[/quote]

FOAD.  You have no clue what some parents were dealing with.[/quote]

True, we don't. I do know that Kumon workbooks for K are not that expensive. When parents decided that virtual school wasn't working and choose to let their kids do nothing other then sign in, they could have picked up the Kumon workbooks and gone through a few pages with their kids. I know that many parents on this site recommended work books and activities that would help the child keep up.

If parents choose not to find a solution then that is on the parent. It doesn't have to take a long time to go through those type of workbooks and read to your kid. The idea that this is all on FCPS is ridiculous. There were things that could have been done that were not time consuming or expensive that the vast majority of parents posting on this board could have done.[/quote]

I strongly disagree with you. We did all the things you were saying. We did workbooks the entire year plus did everything the school asked during virtual learning. This was for a first grader. More workbooks than I can count!  This year we switched to a school that was open last year and our kid is insanely behind the other kids.  If you really think parents had the ability to make up the deficits by buying workbooks and doing them with their kids it seems to me you don’t see teaching as an actual professional skill. It is. Parents are not teachers. We can do workbooks until we’re blue in the face but we are not professional educators who understand how to best convey information to children at different stages and how to understand if the work is where it should be for a certain point in their development. I was fortunate enough to alter my work schedule significantly along with my spouse and we literally sat with our first grader every day during virtual school to ensure proper participation. And as I said on top of that we did workbooks. Our child is incredibly far behind students who have in person school last year[/quote]

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