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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For meals, I’d like to see protein for breakfast - like some sort of egg dish. The kids eat pure sugar for breakfast and are starving two hours later, when a kindly teacher might give them a carb snack.

I’d limit the screen time in lower elementary and encourage parents to do the same. More time just reading a book to the class where they sit there and develop their listening and concentration skills.

I’d continually reinforce basic math facts - simple single digit addition, substitution, multiplication way longer than you’d think necessary.

Yes - identifying issues earlier, especially for kids whose parents can’t.

Encourage kids to do their multiplication flashcards at home and test them daily on it at the correct grade level.

Additional recess or outdoor time. Both a morning and afternoon recess or daily PE. Some hard exercise in the morning might really help the kids and lower the amount of time spent on classroom management. [/quote]

THANK YOU!  
Such great points!! [/quote]

Those are great points, but so many of those require Home support and that’s exactly what so many of these kids lack.  some of these kids don’t have good parental oversight or involvement. Who is going to push them to do flashcards at home? some of these kids don’t have good parental oversight or involvement. Who is going to push them to do flashcards at home[/quote]

Most of those actually do not require home support, with intention. Though home support is, of course, helpful. Maybe you’re thinking at home meals? The kids I work with often have breakfast provided at school so I’m referring to school-provided breakfast.

Yes - flash cards (and any homework) are definitely tricky without home support but do work for some kids. It would require a lot of teacher administration but you’d want to incentivize the kids to learn their math facts by ditching some of the flash cards when learned, changing their in class work and tests, etc. Most kids do want to improve. For kids whose parents don’t understand English, math flashcards are a little easier to tell your kid to do than helping with other assignments. But yeah, a lot of kids won’t get assistance at home. You could also add those things into small group or push in/out. Games could be integrated to make it more fun. For the continual reinforcement of math facts, that was intended as a daily in-class exercise. [/quote]

If kids get what they need in class supported with good materials and textbooks most baring special needs can do homework just fine.  People like you dumbing down things and making excuses are the problem.  [/quote]

Please re-read this exchange. But also, there are no textbooks in elementary school. There are math workbooks that stay at school. I don’t think you’re at MCPS?[/quote]

There are some textbooks in middle and high school for history for math and history depending on the teacher.  Some teachers refuse to use them.  You can find the elementary workbooks online for free, or you can get copies from some schools or buy them. Or, get your own to supplement. You have options.  Yes we are mcps.  Our math teacher bought materials off the internet this year.  They refuse to use the supplied textbook.  We bought the materials to help our child.  [/quote]

The context of multiplication flash cards was elementary school. My own children are older and have been able to borrow the text books from their middle and high schools in a lot of subjects - we’ve never needed to purchase them. You can also borrow the graphing calculator if desired. 
I was refuting the argument someone made that my ideas were too difficult for students/families without home support. You then accused me of dumbing things down. [/quote]

Not sure where you are at but some of our teachers don't have enough books so if you can afford it you are asked to buy it.  Others only get classroom sets.  We've only had textbooks in math and history.  Our English right now has a copy of a few poems, not even the entire book, so we had to buy it if we wanted it.  We also had to buy our own graphing calculator for home, they only have classroom sets.

Some of us who support at home spend a lot of time and money doing so and not everyone has the resources but some of the stuff you can get for free with effort but some of your suggestions are to dumb things down.[/quote]

If they don’t have the book in the classroom available for home use, it can be requested from CO or the appropriate copies made.  Personal graphing calculator for home use is one thing.  But don’t let MCPS off the hook for providing the appropriate books for class.  Either they provide the book, access to the book/content online or print it.[/quote]

Online books don't work for all kids.  And, no they don't provide books in all classes and you have to ask.[/quote]

No one said they did.  It was simply stated they the book or content is available in some form.[/quote]

For some classes it is, for others its not.  That's the point.  For many of the advanced science and math classes, books are not available and it makes learning very difficult, especially for things like caculus.[/quote]

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