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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m trying to wait a few more weeks but I just sent my first complaint. My second graders “math class” is “who knows what 2 + 2 equals?”  Seriously? That’s was covered in K.  I feel like online does not all for any differentiation and the classes are definitely getting dumbed down.   Looks like another 3 months of wasted class time.    I now understand why people are paying thousands of dollars for tutors and pods.[/quote]

I have a 3rd grader and 5th grader and am noticing the same problem.  Maybe just review the first week of school?  About half the screen time seems like overkill to me.  I've started taking the kids off some of the Zoom meetings to read and do challenging pencil and paper math I assign them.  I'm also looking at more challenging on-line work to substitute for what DCPS is feeding us, e.g. on Out School and math web sites.  At a bad moment, I feel like minimal differentiation online is going to sink public school for many of us eventually.  [/quote]

+1, I’ve never been one to scream about differentiation as I believe it’s ok that kids learn at different paces.  But the varying abilities seems magnified online in my youngest DC’s class (1st grade).  I see some of the kids appearing bored as the teacher spends time explaining very basic concepts to other children.  I’m hoping groups can be rearranged in the next few months based on ability. This is the pits.  [/quote]

We are having the same problem with DD’s K. Content is similar to DS’ PL K3 class. Repeating back compound words (literally just repeating) and identifying differences between objects as math? I understand ramping up, but kids are tuning out entirely after 4 days of this.[/quote]
At the same time, my K'er had a meltdown today and ran up to his room 3x while on calls. He's struggling with how difficult it is to communicate on a tiny, crappy device on which the mute button will show up only half the time, the raise hand button doesn't work, and all the buttons are exactly 1/4" big, have a 5 second lag, and impossible to touch even for me. I can't imagine putting challenging material out there the first week of this. [/quote]

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