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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This outcome was completely predictable.  Young kids (K-3) needed to be in person at school during this critical developmental phase.  It was an urgent issue.  Virtual school for this group was completely inappropriate and it didn't take an education degree to see this and know this from early on.  And no, of course some of these kids will never catch up.

It's disgusting and shameful.

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Keep speaking the truth![/quote]

The current 2nd and 3rd grade classes are behavioral train wrecks at our school. Not all the kids obviously, but enough of the kids that it's a serious problem. Oddly enough the 1st graders are fine. Is that just the particular kids at this school or are others seeing the same pattern?[/quote]

I have a second grade boy. I have been hearing A LOT of troubling reports about kids acting out--even from the parents themselves. I can't imagine that the disaster that was virtual learning did not significantly contribute to this--kids feeling frustrated and struggling when they can't keep up or follow along--learning loss, issues with attentiveness after being stuck in front of screens for 1. 5 years by their own school system. It was so wildly developmentally inappropriate.

For my child, I know they are behind, and we hired a tutor for all of his first grade year, but, that alone cannot fix it.

Honestly, it is so baffling. I cannot even begin to understand why APS isn't taking immediate and aggressive steps to remedy the learning loss. Across the board. At all schools, for kids who are identified by their teachers.

The only thing that can be said about their, "hey, look over here!", approach to trying to redirect and highlight positives, is that it is STUPID. 
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