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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is graduating this year. We could not afford tutoring during the school closings and both parents work outside the house the entire pandemic so could not ‘homeschool’ our high schooler with learning disabilities.

We will get nothing and he is graduating without being able to string together 3 coherent written paragraphs or read a full book and on medication for depression that began during the pandemic.

He needed to be in school. 
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Our DD also has an IEP and was HS during COVID. Knowing there was a gap in instruction, we helped her make improvements in topics such as writing before heading off the college. We worked with her at night and on weekends. So feel free to blame teachers and FCPS but you should also shoulder some of that blame. You knew those gaps were there. [/quote]

NP, but, some things are easier to help with than others. Even setting aside the very valid constraints of time and money, some kids will willingly work with a tutor but will fight their own parents. Not all parents have the expertise to help with learning disabilities. If it were as easy to do all this as some make it sound, there would be no need for the specialized expertise and instruction from teachers and everyone could just home school their kids.

Many kids NEEDED to be in school, and yet 3 years ago today the governor decided kids in Virginia were expendable and didn't deserve to be educated. [/quote]

Of course your kids will push back on you. That is what they do. As parents, we have to break through that. I have a DS with a learning disability. Our job as parents as parents is to learn how to work with their disability, so that we can help them with their school work, reading, writing, etc. We need to understand their goals, suggest accommodations, and communicate properly with their teachers and case managers. When COVID happened, my husband and I have hours of discussion about how we could help our DS during this time: renting textbooks, building in breaks, visual planners, supports, etc. we didn’t spend tons of money- about $50 on textbooks. We didn’t do anything that any other parent on this form couldn’t have done during that time. it wasn’t his best year, but frankly we’ve have worse years with FCPS. This forum is filled with excuses on why parents can’t parent.[/quote]

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