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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a 1st grader, who attended a small in person K last year, a preschool that added a 5 year old class, so not super academic or anything of that sort, but he did go in person every single day. This year he is in 1st grade in person and he tells me that he is at the top of his class. The work he brings home is all stuff he did last year already. He hasn't learned anything new academically. I'm fine with this, because it's giving him the time and space to learn to grow socially and get used to a big class, school, structure, etc., since he already has the academics. But yeah, this group of kids got screwed by virtual learning. [/quote]

This isn't any different then kids who attend stronger Preschools then kids who attend play only preschools then kids who never go to preschool. Kindergarten has a massive skill gap and it tends to take to second or third grade for that skill gap to be made up for some of the kids. Last year pushed this forward by another few years. And yes, it sucks, but it is nothing new. It is just more on the radar of the parents who sent their kids to preschool or read to their kids as babies and toddlers. The gaps are more transparent to everyone.

But these gaps are the same gaps that the Teachers have seen every year in a Title 1 school. Kids are not prepared for the grades they are in and we expect the Teachers to make up those gaps. The difference is that those same gaps are now glaringly obvious in non-Title 1 schools. [/quote]

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