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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a combination of parents remembering how schools handled covid-it was hey kids teach yourself, you don't need to be in person, and the calendar. For years the schools have sent the message that regular attendance doesn't matter. [/quote]

Omg covid was ONE year of school. One. Many of the kids in school now weren’t even in school when covid happened! [/quote]

New to FCPS?

It was 2 full years, plus 2-3 years of recovery here.

Maybe not in your red state, but blue FCPS,was all in on covid school for years.[/quote]

It was NOT one full year. March - June 2020 = 3 months. Many schools went back in for optional hybrid in February 2021- June 2021. Everyone in this entire state was back in person August 2021. Some families CHOSE to remain online but even then it was NOT in any realm two full years. [/quote]

You clearly didn't have kids in school during Covid.

It was not school.

FCPS was entirely online.  The kids were in the building, but only 2x week with half of the kids there.  Everyone sitting spaced apart on their computers with the teachers online and no interaction allowed with the teachers who volunteered to come in person.

Even the autistic and special needs kids had to do this type of learning.  The local news had extensive coverage of this.  The autistic students were the first ones allowed back due to lawsuits, but the fcps version of educatiolng these non verbal and low verbal kids was to put them in a room by themselves with a laptop they couldn't operate and one aide sitting behind a screen.  All of the local news covered this.

Many classes had no in person teachers, just random aides over 18 years old whose only job was to make sure students stayed separate, didn't interact, and worked alone on their computers with headphones on.

The following year was again mostly on computer, with no students allowed to fail anything, and no zeros.  Even if students turned in zero assignments on their computers, the lowest score they could receive was 50% which was still a passing grade.

The current high schoolers went through middle school under this computer based "learning" with no failures allowed by FCPS and a 50% guranteed points even if you did zero percdnt of the work, and the younger teens did all their primary education like this on unmonitored computers.

Of course they quickly internalized the idea that school doesn't really matter.  Fcps taught them this.[/quote]

[b]It still wasn't two full years. [/b]That is hyperbolic and discredits the argument of anyone who states this.

My kids had some great teachers, even when virtual, who did an outstanding job making virtual learning meaningful and successful. There were a few duds, but the majority were excellent. It definitely helped prepare my kids for online Personal Finance, as well as online World Language in HS (plus online in college).

I had kids in ES, MS, and HS during the pandemic, and I feel all three levels had primarily great teachers, with only a couple duds.[/quote]

Yes it was. And it was actually more because when schools shut down in March 2020, there wasn’t even school for a month and then there was fake school until the end of that school year. The next school year (2020-2021) was online/hybrid. The following school year (2021-2022) was a complete sh&tshow due to reasons PP stated above. The kids also had to come back masked and eat outdoors or have shorter lunches. Mask mandates were finally lifted by spring 2022. The first “normal” year back was 2022-2023 (no masks required).[/quote]

That is some disturbingly twisted math.

March 2020 to June 2021 is ONE YEAR (plus three months).

2021-2022 was a normal school year. Mask mandates do not mean kids were not in school. :roll:[/quote]

Are you thick? 2021-2022 was definitely not a normal school year. Everybody was masked and desks were apart. No group work. Kids ate outside or lunch in shifts. The teachers were scared. Zero field trips. Behavior was atrocious. Hardly any learning took place. Many teachers used the previous year’s virtual curriculum. We even had one teacher refuse to use any paper. It was a f&&king disaster.[/quote]

DP. You're the one who's thick. Covid shutdowns started in March of 2020, so the rest of the 2019-20 school year was online, as was 2020-21 through about late January, when covid shots became available and schools reopened. 
2021-22 was a normal school year. Yes, student behaviors were horrible, but it was a normal school year.[/quote]

Different poster than the one you are arguing with.

School did not reopen during the 2020-21 school year.

What they did was not school
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All of my kids were back in school buildings by March 2021. That means they were in a "reopened" school for three months ofmthe 2020-2021 school year. Before that, my kids all had teachers who did a phenomenal job with online learning. What they did was absolutely school.

Parent attitude had a lot to do with the success children felt and achieved. If your kid(s) had a bad experience,  a lot of that was probably due to your poor attitude. 
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This is exactly the gaslighting that happens in our school, Anytime you have any sort of concern issue, etc..[/quote]

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