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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low income kids suffered the most from virtual. Let's get that straight. Their families had reasons for keeping them home but it wasn't because virtual was working from an educational standpoint.

It is one thing to say that we had to do virtual to protect people's lives. That is reasonable even if some might also reasonably disagree.

It is another thing to say virtual was fine and any problems resulting from it were the parents' faults. That's preposterous and false. Virtual was horrible from an educational standpoint even if you can argue it was necessary. Another thing that is horrible is schools not disciplining kids, also schools not properly teaching reading, and also schools basically eliminating any real standards. And the use of screens as "educational" tools to enrich educational software providers. All of these things were choices MCPS and many other school systems made.

Parenting these days is different than it was in the past. Among my friends many of us have had our own parents tell us we spend a ton of time with our kids, much more than they did. Parenting is much more intensive than it used to be. It's entirely possible we are all doing it horribly wrong, but it's certainly not for a lack of trying to do it right. It's hard knowing that many of us try to do the right thing, limit screen time, establish and enforce rules, and then send them into an environment where screen time is not limited at all and rules are not enforced. [/quote]

Folks aren’t saying virtual was fine.  Everyone knows it had issues especially considering it had to be done without any prior notice or proper planning and setup of resources.  Teachers and district are willing to help make up for that.  Teachers are working harder than ever, districts have provided access to tutoring, and are reaching out.  Is more needed still, Yes. Should they have better discipline, Yes.

All the above said, parenting is much different.  From my perspective it’s more competitive for no gain and people are trying to parent by group decree.  It’s like folks need assurance from a whole host of folks to make parenting decisions. That or they are pushing kids until they are anxious so they can brag about them to others.  Gentle parenting has become basically never say No and mean it parenting.  Not to mention they won’t let kids fail. All this is showing up in the classroom making teaching and recovery harder and harder.  Folks want discipline in the moment at school, which I can agree with, but also some of the behaviors should not be occurring with such prevalence to begin with.  Parents want school to enforce kids not using their phones, yet it’s obvious that parents aren’t monitoring screen time or putting limits so it’s not accessible during school hours.  Plus ya’ll are the one giving kids phones in the first place.  Control of that device and discipline around such starts with you.[/quote]

First of all, none of the people blaming parents mentioned any of these issues, so stop with the "yes yes". ADMIT that MCPS has made horrible choices, stop pretending you already did admit it as a way of deflecting and attacking parents.

No, you DON'T know what is happening in kids' homes. Kids are SMART. They can tell when they are in a place with no limits, and adjust their behavior accordingly. You can't possibly be someone who works with children and not know this obvious fact. Kids learn this from when they are literal babies. It is not remotely sustainable for schools to not discipline kids, and this problem builds on itself when the well behaved kids see other kids behave poorly and have no consequences. When studying makes no difference because everyone gets As. Come on.

Parents give their kids phones for a wide range of reasons. Why do YOU have a phone? Why do teachers have phones? Let's be real.

My kid doesn't have a phone, she is too young, but she still gets screens in schools. Stop pretending you KNOW parents are not limiting screen time when schools REQUIRE screen time in school.

So much deflection and lies.[/quote]

I sat on the metro the other day and watched a toddler stand on the seat next to his mother and repeatedly smack her in the head. The parental response was, “Please don’t do that, sweetie.” Needless to say, “sweetie” kept doing it.

And then people get on this message board and bemoan the behavior of their child’s classmates. Never their own child, that’s a given.
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+1000. My kids have had known kids with lack of boundaries by their parent since preschool.  You wanna know whose kids are not acting out in school regardless of those kids? Mine because again the boundary setting starts at home and is reinforced there.  My kids clearly understand that their appropriate behavior is not to be adjusted to other inappropriate behavior.  Does that mean they are perfect? No they are kids.  But when their behavior strays from the path We as parents quickly help put them see the light.  The whole dang class can be running around like fools, and mine better sit in their chair with a book quietly waiting on the teacher or escape to safety and await the next class or be showing leadership by working with others to diffuse the situation. Anything not in this vain, means that their behavior is not up to par and SMART kid will be meet SMART parent for a reckoning

MCPS is to blame for selecting a bad reading curriculum. MCPS is to blame for not making their school level standard consistent. Kids cell phone problems and habits, that is on parents.  Kids disrespect, parents.  Kids drunk on power, parents.
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