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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really.

The 9th grade teacher tried desperately to catch the kids up this year.  Bless her.  But she never should have had to do that in a high school honors class.

The class of 2026 kids are so behind on so many basic things that were never a concern for my older kkds, even the one just a couple years older.

The kids who lost the end of 6th grade and mkst of middle school over pandemic are so screwed by the shut down.

I suspect that cluster of grades, plus the kids who did K-2nd grade over pandemkc are going to have lifelong impacts due to the idiotic pandemic school decisions, school closures, lowering of standards, and over reliance on screens to teach.

Those specific grades were at critical learning and transition stages that you cannot get back.[/quote]

Teacher here . I know closures are the easy target but they were 3 years ago. It doesn’t explain the YEARS of declining grammar skills I’ve seen in students, which was happening pre-pandemic. It comes down to the curriculum provided and how FCPS was teaching reading and writing (Calkins model). It’s much, much bigger and going on longer than the brief time schools closed. [/quote]

I agree. But there are a bunch of parents on this board who just cannot move on from pandemic shutdowns. Instead of figuring out how we can fill gaps and build learning, they just incessantly whine and cry about things that occurred three years ago, stomping their feet and harping on things that cannot be changed. We don't have time machines that allow us to go back in time, so there is no benefit in discussing what happened in 2020-2021, but these posters just incessantly repeat the same tired argument over and over and over again. It is ridiculous. [/quote]

I started the progressives ruined schools more than the pandemic thread and it shows to me that it doesn't matter what people point out as the problem. Some people in the school system will try to find the loosest way of teaching, no matter what the results, till they are told they have to switch to something more structured.[/quote]

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