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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gift Article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/us/mississippi-schools-transformation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFA.fmpE.-DdheKRUoFxa&smid=url-share

Even as schools elsewhere have focused on issues like school funding, social justice and mental health in recent years, Mississippi schools like Hazlehurst have made academics their North Star.

[b]“At the end of the day, our job is teaching. Their job is learning,” [/b]said Ms. Langston, who added that no matter what is going on in a child’s life, the classroom is the one thing she can control. “If we don’t meet that need, we have failed them.”

Do you think FCPS should focus more on learning and less on equity and mental health? [/quote]

Teaching core subject matter is what teachers do all day every day. [b]SEL and mental health lessons are a VERY small percentage of what we teach. [/b]At the HS level, SEL lessons are done during the remediation block so no class time is lost for it. [/quote]

+1 billion

The posters whining about "getting back to basics" don't actually have kids in FCPS.

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Or we do have kids in FCPS.

Consistently, the biggest complaint I hear from my high school kids and their friends is that so much of learning seminar is taken up by SEL type lessons, preventing them from flexing out to their teachers for tutoring and making up tests if they are absent.

They complain regularly about the constant SEL lessons and surveys at the high schools.

I hear the same thing about the middle school.[/quote]

+1 there a new survey coming up that will take “30 minutes or less.” We are opting out. Sick of my high schooler missing work time during learning seminar for these dumb surveys.[/quote]

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