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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.[/quote]

NP. I have a kid in HS. There is only so much you can do to prevent HS kids from dropping out. If parents don’t value education or that value isn’t instilled in the kids, it is beyond our control. I see this in my own family. My sister has never valued education like I have. Her kids barely made it out of HS. There are always excuses for everything. So sorry no, we didn’t fail. They did. They chose to fail. It wasn’t a priority.[/quote]

While that is generally true, a good way to ensure a kid on the bubble drops out instead of staying in school is to just close the school for months on end and ask him to log into class from a home that may or may not be conducive to doing so. If you want to write those kids off as lost causes anyway, go ahead, but DCPS has a public mandate to try and make sure that kid gets an education. And they failed. And we'll all pay the price.[/quote]

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