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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since you now have the opportunity to teach the skills you want them to learn at home, order some workbooks and do it. Don't wait for the teachers.[/quote]

All the involved FCPS parents I know already supplement heavily. Our kids will be fine. What about the kids whose parents can’t, won’t, or don’t notice they need to, though? Shouldn’t the teachers and administrators care that what they do doesn’t work?

Having schools closed has allowed me to supplement while working around only 2-3 hours of class instead of 7+bus ride time, and it has been glorious.[/quote]

Why do you assume heavy supplementation by parents can replace a good education in school?

I do not have the confidence that I—as someone who has zero teaching experience—can teach my child the core of what she needs to learn in school. Her education is too important to be left to my own abilities. I would be very scared that I missed something.

We’re paying for private school as a result. [/quote]

Have a look at stats for home schooled kids.  I think you will be surprised.  I personally would never do it because I think the loss of socialization is too great a price to pay but the academic results can be wonderful.  I have said before that this is the way great thinkers were educated for hundreds of years.  Governess + music/art/language teachers used to add up to aristocratic education.  I consider myself an acolyte of Harold Bloom.  The problem is the inferiority of the reading material we give our children these days -- books that do nothing more than reflect their limited understanding of the world and do not challenge them intellectually.  It must be easy and contemporary and may not contain any words or phrases they do not already know.  Even the language used by characters on Sesame Street 30 years ago would be incomprehensible to most children now.  [/quote]

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