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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.[/quote] NAACP, Fairfax-SEPTA and DD-VA are behind this push.  With the addition of the NAACP, there is a critical mass to make it happen. [/quote]

Nothing would have happened without the NAACP and there is no reason language arts-reading cannot be fixed for this summer or the 2021-22 school year.  Each year is another waste of potential in learning to read and learning to read to learn.  It is totally ironic that students and families have had to suffer for decades when all it took is an effort by the NAACP.

But now Virginia is working on removing solid math instruction.  The NAACP needs to speak up and throw Qarni out.  Over 2 decades ago FCPS had squat except educrats blabber on why it had crap reading programs.

[b]The fcps pos is why full day kindergarten valid studies on cohort groups had diminishing returns. Gain evaporated and the same thing happened in it's longitudinal pre k study[/b].

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DP.  I agree that reading instruction can be improved and that math instruction should not be dismantled.

[b]But to be fair, the lack of long term gains from preK and full day K is not a FCPS issue.[/b]  The lack of real gains from these programs is seen everywhere.  [/quote]

No it is an FCPS issue.  We have lower class sizes and massive resources going into Title 1 schools.  This is not a massive struggling urban decay district like Philadelphia or Baltimore.  FCPS should not have had the level of diminishing returns in it's longitudinal studies.  Years ago a title 1 school had great objective SOL test results.  Might have had phonics, core knowledge, and saxon math.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/11/13/a-school-that-strives-to-serve-its-community/cde3f25e-fdb6-4358-95b0-10b25006ecc6/

The educrats won - goodbye phonics, core knowledge, the math.
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