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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't DCPS just let kids have some down time with their families? Why must there be spring break assignments (looking at your Hardy with your math assignments). Back off. [/quote]

+1 weeks with no assignments at our DCPS charter and then homework over the break. Eye roll. 
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All right, ignoring all of the petty nasty stuff being said. In our middle school they took away the devices so they could prep them for CAPE after spring break. So If they want all kids to be able to do extra work they need to do it on paper. 
Second, regarding the point about no homework before break but now homework on break, you could argue that the teachers feel like being in school reinforces the skills, but 9 days of no school would cause some regression [/quote]

Our school made it available online or print, but who doesn’t have access to an electronic device? (I know a few people which is why there are paper but there aren’t many ppl who the school computer is their only access to electorncis).

I just feel like it stinks of desperation - if you’re worried about test scores being significantly lower because of spring break, it means the kids weren’t proficient to begin with or you’re concerned that they’re so close to scoring catastrophically bad that even the normal bit of learning loss that results from a week off might have a meaningful impact for test scores.

I mean, if in nine days they’re going to fall to such perilous lows on the test you’re assigning homework, what hope do the kids have trying to get through summer break?

Either way, whatever retention you can drag out of kids by making them do homework on spring break seems unlikely to solve the problem.

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There are many families without access to laptops or computers at home. Many families have cell phones or tablets, but those don't always work with the various apps and programs that schools want you to use. I am not sure where your kids have been going to school, but as someone who has been a family at a title 1 school for 9 years, I can say that access to technology is a big deal. We spent a lot of time during COVID working to get devices to families when the DCPS ones were delayed, from donations, refurbished, etc.
Some kids use libraries, others log on at schools (when open). I imagine this 'send a packet home' decision was citywide for middle schools at least.[/quote]

It's tablet friendly, I checked.

But all of this just reinforces my point. It doesn't seem like a terribly realistic way to really accomplish anything, and so for it to be proposed, basically at the last minute, despite all of the potential hurdles, it all reeks of them having a massive "oh shit" moment a few days ago in which they realized that the kids are not prepared (either unable to hold the appropriate level of knowledge for more than 9 days, suggesting they don't really have a grasp OR so close to a disastrous score that the minor amount of loss from a nine-day break elicits total panic from administrators). [/quote]

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