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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Before any academics, I'd like schools to focus on behavior -- how to make friends, how to be resliant, how to listen, how to be patient -- so many kids are missing these skills because of the pandemic.[/quote]

Sorry, but that's horsesh**. At the start of school there were deficiencies to overcome. But kids are resilient. Kids in upper ES get away with what they can. As an example, at our school the specials teachers who are not string classroom managers gave up on teaching because they couldn't control the class. Those same kids (exact same class) were somehow able to sit quietly and learn in classes led by strong teachers. It doesn't take a year (or more) to relearn how to make friends or sit quietly and listen. You are acting like they were all on a Lord of the Flies desert island for years before they returned.    [/quote]

If anything, I think we can drop the “kids are resilient” narrative. [/quote]

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