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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS / Teachers Union bagmen (virtually all of DCUM) will give you a million reasons why it's not a problem that 1/4 of kids aren't being educated.

The district did all it could! Do you know what a hot spot is? If those kids are not logging in, screw 'em.  Your whining about the importance of education shows how stupid you are.

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No, it’s not ok that kid aren’t showing up and failing. Career teachers know that whatever happens this year, we’ll be in the school buildings next year helping to clean it up. Our classes that already have diverse abilities will be far more stratified and I’ll of students with knowledge gaps. Even if teachers were the uncaring goblins you make them out to be, it is a complete administrative nightmare to fail a student. It is literally less work to help them pass —when they show up.

Realistically, what are teachers supposed to do to get kids to school in a pandemic? In typical times, we don’t expect teachers to drag the children to school every day. That’s the parents’ job. We already have detailed protocol in place when children are chronically absent. Teachers contact home, the administration contacts home, and CPS gets brought in. When a child is failing, teachers must have a record of contacting the family at least three different times before the grades go home. I am absolutely empathetic to the fact the families lack childcare, have only one parent at home, work odd shifts, etc. Those are societal issues, however, and teachers cannot be the ones to fix every weak link in family life and income security.[/quote]

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