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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We heard back from our elementary school.  out of 300 students, 70 will return to in person instruction.  To me this is confirmation of the fact that we teachers are doing a pretty good job with the distance teaching, and that our mostly minority or immigrant parents aren't comfortable with in person school just yet for their elementary kids.[/quote]

This means nothing for how well you are doing in distance learning. These decisions to stay home are the result of so many other issues aside from the quality of teaching. Frankly, I would not be surprised to find that the majority of these decisions were made completely independently of teacher quality.

We already have the DC data which show that our minority children are doing substantially worse, so don't go patting yourself on the back.

How tone-deaf. "They don't trust us, so we must be doing a great job!"[/quote]

I’ll pay myself on the back, thank you very much.

Parents of kids in our school have been very supportive of the instruction their kids are getting this year. I have near perfect attendance from my students now ( not true in the fall... we had to work hard to get kids hooked up and into the routine, but we did it! We have amazing parents and teachers in my school, which is almost entirely minority and 80% FARMS.

And if 230 kids were coming back you know you’d interpret it in part as parents thought distance learning was awful and could not wait to get back to n person.[/quote]

And the test results?[/quote]

The school has a population where about 80% of the kids are on free/reduced meals.  Our kids often score below grade level on standardized tests.  They did three years ago, they did two years ago, they did last year and no surprise, with distance learning they also are working below grade level. But at about the same proportion as in past years.[/quote]

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