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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree. Back off the teachers. They are working so hard. They didn’t create the pandemic. They are adapting like the rest of us or got a sample size of 14 APS middle school teachers I my house. Not a single issue with one of them.  [/quote]Oh, come on.  My kid's elementary teachers aren't working that hard.  They just aren't.  They teach 20-30 minutes of content a day, leaning heavily on Lexia and Dreambox and RazKids and BrainPop.  They don't offer any small groups or interact with students on Mondays.  They don't grade or comment on any work.  They don't write any individualized comments on report cards.  There is no diffentiation or small groups.  There are evaluations other than PALS.  There are no thoughtful assignments, just scanned worksheets several grade levels below what the kids should be doing.  If anything, this is a vacation.  They have vastly more prep time, but are teaching far less content with fewer hours of student contact.

If the administration is somehow sucking up their time with meetings, then they teachers should be vocal about that because it's not of any benefit to students.[/quote]

Okay, well, i have no idea what Lexia, Dreambox, Razkids and BrainPop are.  I have used Kahoots but do you know how long it takes me to design a Kahoots quiz?  No, I don’t use other people’s quizzes because they are always full of mistakes.  [/quote]

Are you in APS? These are the standard apps.[/quote]

Yea, I'm an APS specials teacher and I know what all those are even though I don't use them so you must not be a APS elem teacher! PP that said their teacher is on vacation and doing no prep is completely wrong though. That's  absolutely not what is happening with classroom teachers at my school. They are teaching and planning for significantly more than 20 minutes a day. Lexia and Dreambox are used because they are APS apps that are gathering data in addition to providing async learning but they don't make up the bulk of class time T-F.[/quote]

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