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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The absentee rates are alarming. Get the kids in school. Keep them interested. [/quote]

That doesn’t work when you have parents who take kids out whenever they feel like it.

I see posts in my feed all the time with parents being like “we played hooky today!”

And then they wonder why their kids don’t care about school.[/quote]
+1 my kids complain that we never take the them out of school for vacations.  They said *everyone* does it.[/quote]

The schools themselves have encouraged this by telling us education is less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses. Of course a lot of families became disconnected from schools.[/quote]

Schools didn’t say they were less essential than staffing Amazon warehouses.  Schools and teachers tried to explain how difficult it would be to adhere to any safety protocols in schools with old facilities and KIDS.  Have your been in some of our MS/HS during class change? Have you seen how. K/1st graders disregard personal space?  And when folks didn’t listen they used the law to protect themselves by saying they were not defined as essential. And they aren’t as they aren’t the difference between life and death.[/quote]

Many parents were going to work in old facilities without proper safety protocols, because those protocols were not evidence based or realistic. If they hadn't, there would have been massive food shortages and much more inflation. With schools, the decision was made that the consequences of no in person schooling were not as important as those other things. Well fine but now those consequences are here. Stop blaming the very parents that risked their lives to make sure you had food during the pandemic. It's offensive.[/quote]

What?? Doctors and nurses who are in fact essential went to work everyday also.  Does that suddenly mean they are able to abdicate responsibility from parenting? Because they were in person during the pandemic means their kids can show up to school lacking respect, understanding of basic boundaries, and how to spell their name?

That’s like saying because military personnel deploy to war their kids are exempt from acting civilized in school and working to learn.  No one believes that and certainly not anyone in the military that serves with honor.

Parenting is parenting and expected regardless. [/quote]
Wtf are you talking about? Closing school buildings for over a year had consequences. Consequences that were completely predictable. Some other things that have consequences are no discipline in schools, screens in schools and a total failure to teach kids to read. It's hilarious and sad that in light of all of these things you just put your fingers in your ears and screech "bad parents!!!" [/quote]

No one said that there weren’t consequences.  In fact teachers and school districts have been trying to give grace to kids and families for the pandemic.  But whether you believe it or not behaviors in school are terrible and a lot of that has to do with parents not providing boundaries before their kids show up to school or enforcing them when schools reach out, or relaying the importance of education. Yes there are kids with special needs but the pandemic did not just multiply the number of kids incapable of controlling themselves. Being able to sit down, shut up, and show respect for peers and teachers is something that starts at home. My kids went through the pandemic as well, but they are not in school being disrespectful, pulling out their phone whenever, or destroying school property for fun, because they know I would rain down unholy hell on them.

Reading can be taught to anyone of any age with enough time, reinforcement, and will (just ask EML students who learn to do it. 90% of whom when they complete the program pass MCAP).  Should MCPS have choosen a better ELA curriculum, sure.  But they’ve rectified that issue. And guess what, not being in school did not prevent parents from working with their kids in the basics of reading. There are 5 year olds showing up to school who don’t know the alphabet.  Why?  That can be covered during bathtime.[/quote]

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