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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What can be done? I have a second grader who is at the lowest bar of the graph. Very below goal or something like that. Can can hardly write, and his reading has improved a lot this year forming nothing to something. The teacher is trying to catch him up, and he’s not alone. He missed the most important part of K and all of first. [/quote]

What are you doing at home? Over summer? My APS is the same grade and with a late summer birthday, one of the youngest in his class. He could barely read a few sight words when school shut down in March 2020. I used “how to teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons” and BOB books to teach him at home. He muddled through virtual first with a teacher who didn’t make him finish anything. We had to be involved, checking SeeSaw every day and helping him on our own for 20-30 min every night. 
If a year of in-person school hasn’t helped, you need to line up a tutor for summer or research ways to help him yourself. Unfortunately APS alone will not fix this for you. [/quote]

Too many parents don’t want to bother with this. It’s too much work that’s cutting into their Netflix binge time. It’s far easier to scream fruitlessly at the schools.[/quote]

Unfortunately, this is true.[/quote]

NP here, I accept that these problems won't get fixed without significant parental involvement. But I also reserve the right to think about how much money APS spends per student (including out of my own tax dollars, but not exclusively) and be completely unsatisfied that this is the best they can do. [/quote]

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