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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]For a few years now we’ve been talking about children who have extensive absences from school. This has come up with regard to DCPS passing and graduation rates, but the circumstances apply to many school districts. The kids who are no-showing for distance learning are, by and large, the same children who had 20-30 absences during in-person learning. It’s not distance learning that’s causing this. Rather, these families face issues like trauma, poor parental supervision, teens needing to work to supplement income, etc.

I know many are searching for reasons to blame school systems and teachers for the challenges of distance learning. But this is not unique to online school at all.[/quote]

This, it was the same situation before.  The other big difference is parents could more easily check out and didm't really know what was going on as they let the schools handle it.  With kids at home, you can see it more.  This really has nothing to do with DL.[/quote]

Did you even read the article? The educators quoted state that this is DL and they want kids back because they are worried about the loss of education due to DL. In other words, it's worse than pre-covid.

I don't understand this compulsion to deny the deleterious impact of DL on vulnerable student populations. It is documented at this point. This is not debatable.[/quote]

Stop using your fluff news to push your agenda of forcing kids back into the schools in person because you want your kids out of the home.  Many of these kids had academic and school issues prior to covid where the school system and parents just ignored the problem.  Sending them back in person isn't going to fix it.  It will take that much more.

Many of the so called vulnerable choose to stay home as they are more vulnerable to covid and understand the real impact.  You may be a covid denier but for many of us who take it seriously, we will make DL work.

You never cared about these kids before so why pretend to care about them now?[/quote]

+1. This article carefully avoids discussing the fact that most Asian parents are also choosing DL in large numbers. It’s not about parents not paying attention, it’s about parents not wanting to expose their kids and families to a potentially serious virus. I’ll grant that some of the students weren’t doing much in person before Covid, but it’s unlikely a 15 year old C/D student who reads at a 5th grade level is going to have a different trajectory if they’re required to attend school. [/quote]

Are you under the impression that all Asian families are rich and educationally advanced? Because that’s not true. In cities like NYC Asians have very high poverty rates and are vulnerable populations, often undocumented. But yeah keep on using those cheap and uniformed stereotypes. [/quote]

No, and I believe you missed my point. Regardless of income, Asian parents are electing DL in large percentages, often for the same reasons as other families of color. [/quote]

Ok show me the stats disaggregated by SES. [/quote]

Also, I missed your ugly little suggestion that we should basically give up on kids of color because they were doing badly before so what’s the point of making them go back to school now. I continue to be astounded to hear these views expressed in this age of supposed racial reckoning. [/quote]

It really is pretty vile. And it tracks along with the other comments in this thread basically saying similar things. Like that "the kids never wanted to be in school" anyway, and then talks about little kids as though they really have agency here. It's their own fault! Or the people who are arguing that putting kids in schools won't 100% fix their academic issues, so we shouldn't push them into school buildings, even though it would make some improvement. I suspect the motives of the people who letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.[/quote]

I find it interesting in that the right's racism is tracking with the left's purported anti-racism for the same purpose -- kids of color shouldn't go to school.[/quote]

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