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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.[/quote]

I don't disagree.  And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break.  I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.  [/quote]

I worry about this too, but I also think this could really light a fire to focus on phonics and math in the pre-PARCC grades, which is a good response. The bigger issue is how we remediate the kids scoring poorly in the testing grades. Especially in the elementary grades, these are the kids who really got screwed over and need/deserve serious attention focused not just on raising their PARCC scores but addressing the underlying reasons why they were so low.[/quote]

One of the reasons these scores are so terrible is that last year schools and parents seem to have bought into the narrative that because of COVID closures, we simply couldn't expect kids to behave in the classroom or to approach school and learning the way they did pre-COVID. I know at our school kids were permitted to engage in regular disruption and the excuse was always, "but COVID". Even in the last few months of school admins were still leaning on excuses that kids had "forgotten" how to be in class.

When you set low expectations you get commensurate results.   [/quote]

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