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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who are saying that elementary “kids are getting behind:

Behind what? Behind who? [/quote]

Behind 50% of the kids who have had in school since August and all the private school kids in school in this area. [/quote]

Okay but why does that matter? Different districts across the country have always had different curriculums. Some are more rigorous than others. (And children of UMC parents always do fine, no matter where they go.)[/quote]

It doesn’t really matter to me personally which is for sure a nice position to be in - but I care about the education gap (and I’m not a Johnny Come Lately - I did it pro bono before the pandemic). I sent one to private this year and will probably send all 3 next year - but I’m sorry only those who can afford it have that in person option. I think that’s a real failure of democracy. I would like all people to have the options I have - not just those who can afford it. [/quote]

But again, if kids are going to be evaluated primarily against their peers until high school, why does it matter if the are behind private school kids. Who cares if private school kids learn how to diagram sentences in fourth grade and public school kids don’t?

If you truly care about the the education gap why are you sending your kids to private school?

(Also the majority of people complaining about kids getting behind are UMC, because lower income people have been hit harder by the pandemic. So mostly this is UMC handwringing) [/quote]

I have to work and I need childcare and I have to put that ahead of my historical support for public school. I’ve done all the advocating that I could this year and FCPS is going to do what they are gonna do. But I won’t be pulling my kids for private without saying I tried to get in person for all.

I taught third grade in a high needs school & probably have more expertise in the area than you, and not only that - one of my own kids is a non reader so I know what it’s like to have a non reader in DL, when you have to work and can’t supervise & I’m not certain you can speak to that either. I do think there are going to be real fundamental reading and math challenges for kids especially in the lower grades who have been out of in person school since March 2020 and now will go in, in second and third - unable to read or do basic math and without even teachers seeing them in person to have even start getting them interventions if needed. That’s why we care so much about early interventions historically - early intervention works to help kids in the long term.

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