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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I don’t thinks there’s anything inherently wrong with the LIM teachings. However, there has to be buy-in from both staff and students. Right now MCPS is in crisis. For most of DCUM, your children attend the better schools- the ones where most parents are able to purchase school supplies, feed your children, have housing security, etc… However, the majority of the county is not like that.

The children are coming in with no basics. They are far behind in academics (think a 4th grader who can’t do 7-6 without using her fingers or a 5th grader unable to write a basic sentence). Their behavior is also far behind. The kids think running down the hall screaming in the middle of class is normal. Fist fight on the playground are weekly. Racial slurs are constant.

What most teachers are saying, is that right now there are more important worries than this curriculum. It’s not what SEL should look like based on what we are actually seeing in class. If the curriculum covered things like zones of regulation or general study skill or school appropriate behaviors, then there would be a lot more buy-in.[/quote]

As another MCPS teacher, I agree.  It's really not well written for the secondary level at all, so it's really hard to get the kids to buy in as well.  It's not tied to anything; for successful implementation, it would take a bit of work to implement it into the school culture.  But to roll it out now? After what happened with the pandemic? Incredibly tone-deaf.  We have kids who lost family members to COVID, some are taking care of their own families while going to school. Maslow before Bloom.  Can't have it any other way.  It's just not appropriate for the current climate and needs to be adjusted significantly at the secondary level for any type of impact. Right now it's just something to check off a list and then move on.  Waste of everyone's time.  [/quote]

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