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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not all pods or even all pods who hire a nanny and likely not pods that rotate with parents in charge.  BUT if you are paying someone to teach, then you aren't completely relying on the materials/teaching the school provides.  [b]If, as we all suspect, that materiel/teaching isn't very good,[/b] you aren't going to advocate as hard or as urgently for better because your kids will be getting what they need.  Even if you don't hire a teacher but someone who helps the kids do their DL work, you won't demand that the activities are more clear or include enough support because you won't know.  So your child's classmates who can't afford pods are then left to do this advocacy work themselves and make the demands themselves.

There is strength in numbers - stay and fight for the best DL for all.[/quote]

Have you actually looked at the materials? I looked at the materials during the spring, when DCPS released it in packets. It was good, for the most part. The problem is that my kids teachers couldn't teach it all, because of constant discipline problems in the classroom. Once DL began, my kid actually began to learn social studies, Spanish, etc., because he could focus on the curriculum instead of the constant interruptions in the classroom. And I didn't need to hire a tutor to do it. He did it himself.

Point being, if you have a kid who can focus, the curriculum and the free apps DCPS provides are plenty, and a good combo. It's not the materials that are the problem. It's either teachers that can't teach (which I've never seen in my EOTP school -- all the teachers are quite good), or a classroom which cannot be managed because of lack of support/not enough aides. That's where the real advocacy is needed. How can a teacher teach a class with constant disruptions and kids who are reading at both kindgarten and 5th grade levels in the same classroom?

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