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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid left Deal and is at a top private high school (Sidwell/NCS/STA/Potomac).  
He/she was a top student at Deal: As every quarter in every class grades 6-8, top math track (Algebra 2), 5's on every PARCC since 3rd grade.  99% on the 6th grade Deal PARCC in both ELA and math.

Started private high school and it is an absolute SH$%T show.  Currently getting Ds.  My kid doesn't know how to study, how to read and annotate dense text in rapid fashion.  He/she gets dozens of pages
a night to read and process (across history, ELA, science).  Homework in every subject each evening.  Has already written 5 essays and 2 lab lengthy reports.  Has frequent pop quizzes.  One class has one every single day.  
Has a sequence of exams in every class this week.

It just f-ing frustrates me how little my kid learned at Deal.  How he never learned to think critically or write well.  So much wasted time in the pandemic.  No Wednesdays, 45 minute classes twice a week.  The chicken has come home to roost because my 
kid is now having his/her ass kicked.  And it all counts for college grades.  Things will get better but we're quitting activities, hiring tutors and trying to right the course.

Not sure what the point of my post is except---if you have a kid in DCPS.  Supplement like a mad person.  We did but not enough.  His/her classmates who are at Wilson report that they haven't done any 
homework yet in most classes because with the 4x4 schedule, many teachers are only teaching for half of it and little or no homework is given (and what is given is done in class).   So if you're at Wilson
(I have another kid likely headed there) continue to supplement.

I'm just so frustrated.  I'm sure it is somewhat better in typical times but the pandemic learning was just a mess.  Those of us who have left DCPS are seeing clearly just how bad it was. [/quote]

I’m sorry, Op. that sounds scary and upsetting. Thanks for the PSA. You’re right that kids are definitely not learning those skills in public. My 8th grader looked at me like I had two heads when I told him how to annotate a text. It’s sad. [/quote]

This is how I know you are lying. Annotating a text is a DCPS standard that is taught in ES. They definitely are familiar with it by 4th grade. [/quote]

NP. Totally agree. My DC were taught to annotate at Shepherd in 4th grade. They do it with all books and articles read now that they attend Deal.[/quote]

My kid was not taught at a JKLM   :( [/quote]

This. So sick of the boosters jumping in to say posters must be lying if they criticize the school. Deal has a lot of gaps, and parents aren't doing children any favors by pretending this isn't true.[/quote]

I'm 100% sure that their child learned how to annotate text in ES, especially at a JKLM. I think your kid may be pulling one over on you[/quote]

Regardless of whether it was taught at one point or not, it wasn't required on every text from 4th grade on like it is at the privates.  And then there's the point (belabored above) 
that Deal doesn't even have MANY (not all lest you all jump down my throat) kids read full texts.

So whether or not a kid is taught to annotate at some point in time at a DCPS, it is NOT a day-in, day-out expectation on all texts (ELA, Spanish, History, Science).  I mean they.don't.even.have.textbooks to annotate (but that is another point entirely).  
My kid is now at a private and is expected to read about 100 pages nightly (between all classes) and annotate it all.  No one from DCPS (elementary or Deal) can tell me that is the expectation for kids at those schools.  My kid went through a JKLM and then Deal with straight As
and 99% PARCCS (just throwing that in there as proof that he/she was FULLY doing what was expected) and never annotated on a regular basis.  Started at the private high school and was like "Holy crap, this is a LOT of reading 
and a heck of a lot of annotation and my skills are rusty while meanwhile my new peers (from the Big3 and other privates) have been doing this year-in and year-out on every single text."

Now--Cue up the folks who are going to tell me that their Deal kids were annotating on yards and yards of text at home and are experts and I am an idiot for not requiring that of my kid during evenings, weekends and holidays.

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I'm sure you are telling the truth but it sounds freaking miserable being your child. [/quote]

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