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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the problems have been created by the county. They created mandatory SEL lessons which are completely overdone and so boring all the kids skip, time could be used to get kids extra help. They give the kids infinite options on assignments and due dates so the kids never learn any discipline. Teachers are basically forced to pass students that have no knowledge of the subject. Teachers spend all of their time helping the bottom 10% (because that is all admin cares about). The bottom 10% miss school and do not have the fundamentals for the class so that they ignore the other 90%. Now the other 90% have noticed this and figure out they don’t even need to go to school to stay ahead of their peers.

Until the county raises expectations and is willing to get tough on kids and parents that are behind nothing is going to change. If a child is behind in elementary school that is fine, get them extra help when you still can. Whether that is required summer school or extra help during recess. Tell the parents they will not go onto the next grade if they do not attend. However, what is happening is the snowball effect and these kids are so far behind once they get high school there is not much any teacher or student can do in the current system to catch them up. However the teachers are trying their best but sacrificing the rest of the class.

Expectations were dropped by Covid and we have not raised them back up since. [/quote]

Yep, all FCPS cares about their graduation rates which is completely in their control, no matter if they educate or not. “You get a diploma, your get a diploma, every gets a diploma regardless of effort or attendance or if they can read and do math at 5th grade level”[/quote]

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