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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please speak out at council meetings, make it known to your council member. Please also reach out to the WTU, who would like to partner with more parents. Maybe if we work together, DCPS will follow the science.

I would love to see more real books and more assistance. I think we need 3 teachers in pre-K (1 lead 2 paras). And 2 in every grade until 5th. More differentiation will be possible and another person to support with behaviors as needed. If we have a really strong foundation in PK-5th MS and HS will be so much better. Sometimes I think DCPS thinks screen time will make learning more ‘fun’ and students better behaved -it’s the opposite.

We also need to get DCPS to give students consequences and hold parents who don’t take their kid to school accountable.[/quote]

This is the way. At DCPS level. Not every parent at every school has the energy and resources to do advocacy but those who do, really should jump in. It’s not fair to teachers who know better and want to take another approach, to be beholden to so much pressure from
Central that runs counter to that, and it shouldn’t be that schools with more UMC families advocating will see a more favorable trend while others see 4th graders addicted to the entertainment and stimulation of more and more screen-based “learning” (in quotes because there are times when they don’t really learn, they’re just consuming content). [/quote]

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