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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here who brought up Saturday school earlier. May be time for a new thread on this, but since teachers are reading this one... What is the one thing that would most help the 2nd grader who's reading A level books get up to grade level? We have a lot of kids like this at our Title I (
I know from the graphs of the kids' reading levels that they hand out at the APTT meetings). I know teachers at our school work very hard, so maybe there isn't nothing more to be done. But it kills me to see how far behind they are already and know its just going to get worse.[/quote]

Convince DCPS that teachers are not miracle workers and it is not our fault, test scores tied to teacher's IMPACT scores is ridiculous for schools that are title I and have a high percentage of students years and years below their grade level. If we could at least admit that it is impossible for teacher's to single-handedly do this then we can get it experts to work with the designated students in pull-outs, specials, and maybe offer family literacy programs. As long as administrators keep saying it is the teacher's fault or responsibility only then it is a non-starter. Stop blaming teachers and tell parents and students the truth, no more passing failing students or dumbing down tests. Differentiation cannot work in content classes at either ends of the spectrum, especially at the low end and with students who also have unaddressed behavior issues. At many DC high schools, students are on average reading at a 4/5th grade reading level, how is possible for those students to be in AP English classes and graduating high school? DC's graduation rates will look atrocious for a few years, but the only way forward is to be honest, once we are really honest about what students actually don't know we can attempt to fix it. Firing Jason Kamras wouldn't come amiss.

A former DCPS teacher. [/quote]

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