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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first grader gets targeted intervention in school, every first and second grader us getting either targeted enrichment or interventions. Her reading is a bit behind (I think she's a level 6?) But her math and writing are very strong. One of her Christmas presents to her teacher was writing a letter to her teacher explaining why she liked her so much. [/quote]

My first grader is maybe reading at 10 which is likely much lower than they'd be if there hadn't been DL. I'm no reading teacher, but I also tried to work them for 30 minutes a day throughout the pandemic and over the summer. [/quote]

That's called parenting which is something you should be doing with your child all of the time. Who are the students who are behind? Mostly ones with checked-out parents.[/quote]

That's my take as well. All the parents complaining about gaps are the same ones who did nothing but complain during DL and never did anything for their kids.[/quote]

You are so out of line. I have an upper elem student with learning disabilities. I was working remotely so I greatly reduced my work hours and worked early am and late at night so I could be very involved in my DC’s virtual learning experience. Guess what, kids don’t always work as well with their parents as they do with teachers and therapists. And as I posted upthread we are paying for tutors. I did everything I could short of quitting my job to homeschool which would have been financially impossible. Stop with this rude and unfair “sorry you were forced to parent your kids” nonsense. MCPS apologist or just a total jerk?[/quote]

+1 I work in healthcare so I didn’t have the luxury of working from home. I did my best to hire specialists to keep up the speech and occupational services my child needed. There was no substitute though for the lack of social interaction with other kids.

And if you want to go to - I should have quit my job to teach my child - trust me I considered. I had coworkers who did quit. The teacher shortage is nothing like the healthcare burn out and shortage caused by COVID. Remember that as hospitals are once again filling up.

MCPS needs to do better to address the learning loss of any student that regressed. They have data presented at BOE meetings that highlighted that students with disabilities were a particularly vulnerable population yet they are still being ignored.[/quote]

MCPS has always struggled academically even before covid.  Those of us whose SN (or not SN) kids who thrived, thrived, not because of MCPS but the outside services, tutoring/supplementing and support parents provided.

You can always socialize outside school.  Lots of options.  [/quote]

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