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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really.

The 9th grade teacher tried desperately to catch the kids up this year.  Bless her.  But she never should have had to do that in a high school honors class.

The class of 2026 kids are so behind on so many basic things that were never a concern for my older kkds, even the one just a couple years older.

The kids who lost the end of 6th grade and mkst of middle school over pandemic are so screwed by the shut down.

I suspect that cluster of grades, plus the kids who did K-2nd grade over pandemkc are going to have lifelong impacts due to the idiotic pandemic school decisions, school closures, lowering of standards, and over reliance on screens to teach.

Those specific grades were at critical learning and transition stages that you cannot get back.[/quote]

Teacher here . I know closures are the easy target but they were 3 years ago. It doesn’t explain the YEARS of declining grammar skills I’ve seen in students, which was happening pre-pandemic. It comes down to the curriculum provided and how FCPS was teaching reading and writing (Calkins model). It’s much, much bigger and going on longer than the brief time schools closed. [/quote]

I agree.

But there are windows in development where the brain is ready to learn things, particularly with language development.

For the kids who did the year and 1/4 without school and no real learning in K/1st/2nd during pandemic shut downs, distance learning and hyper reliance on ineffective screen "learning"  the gaps are real and significant.

The same goes for the class of 2026 kids who missed 4th quarter in 6th, no real school in 7th, and a feral 8th grade experience.  Usually grammar and writing are huge components of that time frame.  Those kids entirely missed this instruction, and what little they had was via ineffective computer games.

I have had several kids go through FCPS high school, and the level of remediation and lower standards for the class of 2026, even compared to my class of 2024 kid, are significant.  I think that grammar deficiencies were there before pandemic, but good teachers were able to get good results.  But the quality of student preparation in that window of students compared to older grades pre pandemic is significant, in my opinion.[/quote]

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