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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a middle school teacher who did live lessons in the spring. Overall, it was decent. I didn’t have to worry about the everyday behavior issues, which meant we could actually focus on the content itself. Some of my students who struggled to stay on task in person were able to blossom due to the lack of distraction. One on one tutoring session also worked really well. Overall, I’m excited about finding ways to have student collaboration this fall.[/quote]

Thank you—that’s great to hear. My middle schooler just completed a summer math class run by his school, and it was very well-done. Three hours each day, 20+ kids in the class, one teacher. It’s possible to do this well.[/quote]

Are you talking about the Deal SMAC program? I agree - that was super well-done and everyone talking about lazy teachers on here can shut up, because DC’s teacher was teaching three-plus hours, and then doing office hours and study sessions for another hour or two AND grading the daily assignments, tests, and retakes. She was doing at least 8 hours and day and the kids loved her.[/quote]

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This makes me upset that all kids in DC can't get this. Why just Deal students?[/quote]

You know it’s an accelerated summer math class, right? So they do four terms worth of math 7 or math 8 in order to move to math 8 or algebra 1 in 7th grade. I don’t think all kids in DC want to do six hours of math (that’s what DC was doing this week). There were numerous summer learning opportunities provided by DCPS for different grade levels - you had to sign up and they were all virtual this summer - but they are not to be confused with summer school or ESY (which is for special needs kids.) DCPS provides a lot of summer stuff and they put the information out at kids’ schools, or this year, online.

I heard about  summer school. I wasn't aware that they had advanced math options in the summer at other schools.  To my knowledge, other DCPS middle schools do not have the same offerings as Deal. That is not fair especially now. [/quote]

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