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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh. Can we NOT have the same thread over and over again in every single school forum????

OP, get it through your head that no school in the world is planning to make up anything. Teachers are left to fill in gaps as they go when they identify them in their students, which is actually not a bad idea... if you have a good teacher, that is. The US doesn't have a lot of good teachers, because education degrees scrape the bottom of the barrel and in times of hiring difficulties, schools are even less picky.

So. Teach your own kid please. I've been doing this for ever, because my oldest has special needs, but seriously, do it. It will cost you very little and make a huge difference. I know. This isn't what you pay taxes for, schools should be doing their job, you have a full-time job, blah blah blah. If Obama's single mother could do it, and I could do it, so can you. Or if you want the government to step in, you'll have to vote for a super lefty one, because they're the only ones that would care even a little bit :-)

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OP here. I do teach my own kids. And I had a tutor for them during COVID so I think they stayed at grade level (and their writing probably improved more than it would have in a normal year.) But now they are bored in school because other kids are behind and one of them just complained that their teacher was giving them worksheets that said they were for a younger grade. having your kids at grade level or ahead and other kids behind is not a good situation. [/quote]

People who say things like "teach your own kids" are missing the point - upper middle class families do teach their own kids, hire tutors and generally started off at a higher level. But the disparity between these families and the vast majority of Arlington families is just going to grow if Arlington doesn't make up for pandemic learning loss. And that is going to affect us all - higher crime rates from kids who become adults who don't know enough to hold a job, lower educational standards from schools just trying to move these kids along, an economy that drags because an entire generation need additional support. It's an investment that is worth making if only people can look at the long term (and not only at families should teach their own kids.)

America was built on public education - it will only be as good as that education in the future. [/quote]

Correct. The wealthy kids will do fine, as the article described.  It's the underpriviliged kids who are far behind and don't have people to teach them at home.

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