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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Calkins has been such a disaster for both reading and writing - everywhere.

NYC PS recently banned Calkins after observing it did not work.  NYC PS is [b]embracing “Science of Reading” with mandatory Phonics starting [/b]Fall 2023…[/quote]

Isn’t this what the changes to the FCPS ES curriculum has done?[/quote]

Yes.  Hopefully it helps.  This change started this fall, so it's hard to know yet.[/quote]

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