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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not 10 minutes of academics.  It is a couple of blocks so 1-2 hours?

Why are the adults running the show not looking at the research or understanding what is developmentally appropriate?  Same with so much screen use so early in DCPS?

The big picture is that I don’t trust DCPS to know what is best for my kid.  They obviously are not following best practices.  I mean it doesn’t get any easier than ECE.  If they don’t have best practices for this, there is little confidence IMO that they will for higher stakes in upper grades.

And the majority of parents on here at T1 schools who are actually making excuses and supporting this are not telling you is that they are playing the lottery every year for better schools.  Things get worst past ECE.

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Okay, so the "blocks" are when some children are doing play and the teacher is working with smaller groups of children. The teacher is not with all the children the entire block. During a literacy block, for example, some kids might be working on recognizing or tracing letters, sure. But kids who aren't ready for that will be doing something else related to literacy, like a rhyming game or a book read aloud. Try to understand the schedule before you complain about it.[/quote]

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