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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait...are you telling us that MCPS-paid, on-grade-level, online tutoring aimed at catching students up from pandemic learning loss/keeping students from falling behind their baseline grade of study is not achieving the same results as family-paid, acceleration- & enrichment-oriented, in-person tutoring aimed at exposing students to more interesting/advanced concepts and improving test scores at the higher end?

Mind.  Blown.[/quote]

This is for everyone,  or just those struggling.  Stop blaming Covid.    Kids have been in person two years now.  [/quote]

Blaming Covid?  Get over yourself and accept that there was a learning impact from it.  (Not yet) two years of in-person hasn't completely overcome the loss across the student population.

Not just for those struggling?  Try getting that tutoring set up for enrichment -- something more than is offered in the curriculum for your kid's grade.  At best you'll get varying acceptance across the school admins that need to approve.  More likely you'll get a "that's not what this is for" reply.  Sure, anyone can access it, but if it largely is constrained to that in which a student already is demonstrating mastery, what's the point?

I'm not saying having this isn't a good thing.  Just that it isn't comparable to that accessible by high-SES families.  A read-between-the-lines, there, with the nod to test scores is not to abolish those privately-accessed resources, but to make sure MCPS recognizes the continued dichotomy and adjusts policies accordingly.  Like not relying on exposure-based test scores when determining suitability for enriched programming.[/quote]

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