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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no doubt that this year's first graders are the most behind behaviorally.  But the kids who have the biggest deficit academically are current third graders.  There were a chunk of kids who were a little behind in reading in the middle of first grade at the start of the pandemic.  They then missed a solid 18 months of interventions when they could have been caught up on reading.  They're now in third grade and read like behind first graders, when third graders are typically expected to be able to read to access the curriculum.  It's the same for writing and math.  So so so many critical skills were missed.  It's not good.

After evaluating the third grade this year our school canceled science and social studies for the year to work on phonics, spelling and writing.  There's a huge deficit.[/quote]

Parent of a third grader here - this 100%. I also teach.  Grades 4-12 (specialist) and while all the kids are hurting, the elementary kids are having the most trouble reintegrating into school. Can’t sit still. Can’t wait their turn. Talk over the teacher. Demand snacks at random times. Can’t walk from one classroom to the next. All the typical student skills that allow academic learning to happen are unimaginably weak right now - and then throw into that mix 2-3 kids per class who seem to be acting out from serious trauma and it’s a mess. We teachers are working our tails off to remediate and bring in supports. Parents are working their tails off to remediate. But there’s no way to work at home on the daily skills you need to succeed in a class full of other children. School was never just about what individual children can learn and our continued emphasis on individual achievement and skills and testing makes that abundantly clear. Children need each other. Learning is as much a full community project as an individual checklist of skills. We forgot that years before the pandemic but the last 18 months have really made it clear. It will take so much to rebuild. [/quote]

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