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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, wanted to share that as a MS teacher, our school has students working on 3rd grade math skills in IXL because they came up as deficits in MAP tests but the geometry teacher “don’t have time to go back and teach those skills”. So it sounds like the issue might be with the 3rd grade curriculum. [/quote]

This year’s 6th graders were 3rd graders when schools closed in March 2020. MCPS switched their curriculum to Eureka when schools went virtual because there were Eureka videos online. Unfortunately the order of topics didn’t overlap properly with the previous 3rd grade curriculum, so they were taught the 3rd grade math lessons they had already covered in Jan/Feb and didn’t learn what they were supposed to cover for March-June. Then 4th grade was the mostly virtual year and MCPS omitted/condensed a ton of lessons (including all of geometry) because you couldn’t cover everything if there was no teaching on Wednesdays, which I personally can’t believe was allowed to go on the entire year. The idea is that those concepts would be covered in future years. Like in middle school. But they obviously did not communicate to teachers of higher grade levels what these kids missed. I’m sorry teachers that you are having to clean up the mess MCPS created. But your union advocated to keep schools closed and to give teachers tons of planning time at the expense of instructional time on Wednesdays. The only people who are innocent in this outcome are the kids. Thank you for giving them grace and realizing if they haven’t been exposed to these concepts it is not their fault. [/quote]

Weird my 6th grader just scored in the 270s on their MAP-M earlier this year, but I made sure my kids were doing their work during the pandemic so they didn't fall behind.[/quote]

Your 6th grader is failing in another area you don't know about yet, so be kind to yourself and celebrate this success while you can, PP.[/quote]

I mean he has to overcome living his childhood with a braggy, condescending mom who actually assumes her kid’s score is higher than my kid’s (it’s not). So there’s that. [/quote]

Or at least a mom who cared enough to make sure their kids went to school during the pandemic as opposed to the many who ignored their kids and complained about the lack of free daycare.[/quote]

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