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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. My perspective. I have 20 - 25 students in my class. I differentiate in person instruction as much as possible. I am one person. Computer programs help immensely with differentiation as they meet the student where they are at and take them further. I am guided by standards and curriculum. Many parents just don't understand the teacher's perspective. All they see is my child is not getting what is needed. [b]By all means use other resources like Mathnasium and tutors.[/b] Just don't expect the teacher to come up with  20 individual programs. You'll scare them out of teaching. In your case I'd talk to the teacher about your concerns and take little steps. [/quote]

Fantastic, Mathnasium and tutors. That's what my younger kid's 5th grade DCPS math teacher told us after we realized that our bright kid was more than a year behind in math a year ago.  Our kid has happily worked through 4th, 5th and most of 6th grade math in the last year at Mathnasium.  The thing is, Mathnasium runs families $350/month (no scholarship options). The ELA tutor we hired, a retired parochial school teacher who would come to our home, ran us $115/hour.  We needed the tutor because our 5th grader was writing at around a 2nd grade level, and refusing to accept parental inputs to improve without anybody at our DCPS caring a whit.  She'd get 4s on report cards for ELA when she couldn't multiply, capitalize, spell or write a grammatical paragraph to save her life.  She'd get 4s for math, too, although she obviously couldn't handle grade-level math post Covid.

What seems to guide all aspects of DCPS instruction are equity concerns and iron-clad WTU protection for teachers (read building and maintaining elaborate smoke screens to paper over epic virtual learning catastrophes).  There are no formal GT program in DCPS because they aren't fair to low-income URM children. When you urge families to use other resources aren't you saying, only students from well-off families qualify for effective post Covid remediation and above-grade level instruction, fine by me.  Shame on DCPS employees and leaders for not telling it like it is.[/quote]

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