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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious how many people read the numbers about all of DCPS in any year prior to this when they didn't have a personal agenda to send their kids back to school?

I want my kid back too but safely and when he can't kill a teacher.

His learning is NOT dependent on what this data shows.  And I find this data suspect.[/quote]

I mean, I do look at school achievement scores regularly, and have done so for years.  They are interesting to correlate with housing prices.  I know a lot of people poor over them when deciding where to move.

But I think your argument is "you didn't care before so you can't care now."  So I guess don't learn about inequality if you didn't know about it before?

If your teachers are vaccinated will your kid be killing them?

What about the data is problematic for you?

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I want teachers vaccinated with time for it to be effective and yes then my child can return even if I'm not vaccinated.  Other families feel the same way I do and some have a high risk parent.  The ones with high risk parents will wait until that parent is vaccinated before the child can return.  I have spoken to about 6-7 families we are close too and all are hoping we are back in September. Two have high risk parents that they are hoping will be vaccinated in the next month or so.

The issue about the data is its misleading - it wasn't collected in a static manner to years past and being presented to prove a point.  And I'm using my own experience too to not be thrilled.  My child is in a low reading group based on online testing.  When he reads with me he reads better than that.  I send the teacher videos so she knows he's progressing. When he has taken the online assessments for math he does great.  I have stood behind him and he's literally guessing and he's guessed right a lot of the time.  He's playing with the app and he thinks its a game because things turn green and he keeps getting questions.

Per DCPS my child is failing at reading; he's doing great in math. One would think this is odd because he can't read the questions yet he is getting them right.

Also, DCPS put out reading scores stating there was a 21% learning loss to Kinder reading than years past.  First done to scare people; second no child had been in school since March and there is summer slide.  The assessment was done on line with early readers so there was to be loss but come on.  DCPS came out and retracted the statement which didn't get press, Perry Stein printed something but how many people went back to the article to look for a retraction.  So not trusting the data for a few years.

BTW I'm a big data person, big testing person (don't like testing implementation per se but not against it being done), pro-common core, etc.  But DCPS is failing at a lot right now and I'm opting out from testing for at least two years.  I never thought I would be that person.

If scores dip now that is fine - its a pandemic, we are all living with trauma (sans Ted Cruz - had to jab him) so it would be nice to know how big the dip is so we can correct for it moving forward when we are "normal" again.  But the dip is being used for an agenda and hysteria and I can't abide.[/quote]

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