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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade?[/b] Especially math? It makes no sense.[/quote]

grades will be repeated [/quote]

[b]No they won’t. The kids have completed  3/4 of the year.[/b] Tbh, 4th quarter is almost all standardized prep and testing and “other fun stuff” anyway. And the tests WILL be waived this year. 1st-3rd quarter are the ones where kids are actively learning new stuff and applying it to different concepts with each progressing quarter. 4th quarter is “we have to prep you for all these tests and how can we recap everything we’ve learned?” It’s not ideal but they’ll be ok missing 4th quarter if they have to.  
Schools cannot and will not retain an entire cohort of students across the country. That’s ridiculous.

-public high school teacher [/quote]

Teachers reading this - are you preparing for online education for high school students?[/quote]
I've posted material for the next units for all my classes on blackboard for those students who are interested in keeping up or getting ahead.  
I hope we do go back this year, but if not, I suspect everyone would still move up a grade/class and we'd have some intense classes covering the missed topics and moving onto the new material.[/quote]

My principal told us we can’t teach new material during this time. Are you sure you won’t get in trouble for posting materials for your next unit?

We were also told we can’t make anything mandatory to do. The county posted resources on blackboard that are optional to do over the next two weeks.

Parents can’t see the pacing guide but you can review grade level standards:

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/mathematics/index.shtml

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/english/index.shtml

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/science/index.shtml

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/sol/standards_docs/history_socialscience/[/quote]

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