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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so privileged, including my experience.  We did private and a pod and hired a reading specialist for my K student.  Of course he is fine.

Who was really hurt are lower-income students without family and financial support who were already disadvantaged and are now more so.  It’s unfeeling not to recognize that pandemic learning loss affects those most who can least afford to face it.  As a society we are failing the poor yet again but DCUMers are fine so let’s just not talk about it and/or pretend it isn’t happening![/quote]

Well, look at you!

I couldn't even dream of putting my kids in private even though they are a smart, hardworking bunch. Had no pod (no one near us to pod)  so it was a little isolated, though it helped that I had multiple kids to play with each other. And I was the reading and math specialist for my kid.

It was a lot of work so I can't say that "fine" would be a given as you would be able to assume for your child. I'm happy to say that they are fine.
I answered the question for this thread, we made it through okay. But having been raised in tighter circumstances when I was younger, I know it would have been disastrous if the pandemic had happened when I was a kid as maybe you don’t.

So what do you want? Yes, every awful thing in the world will hit the poor in a more disastrous manner (illness/pandemic/climate change.) 
So now that the small talk of how our kids are doing is over, what do you want done?
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That is the thing…you shouldered a lot of work.  So did I.  Our kids are fine.  The kids, as I said, WITHOUT FAMILY SUPPORT—which many lower income kids don’t have—are not OK.  The school systems need to supplement more to make up for the loss.  There is no one there for many of these kids at home.  My brother is a teacher in a low-income school…many of his students have parents on meth and pills, they aren’t helping with homework.  Don’t those kids deserve a chance like ours?  Social supports, like the extra COVID money, should be paid for and used by school systems.[/quote]

Income and family support are two different things.  Plenty of lower income families worked with their kids.  Plenty of high income choose not to and they are the ones like you complaining about it.

You are clearly clueless on what is going on.  MCPS has offered multiple free tutoring opportunities - some unlimited - for over two years now.  If families choose not to use them that's on them.  Many of these kids struggled before covid but it was just ignored by people like you.

So, check your private school privilege and get a clue about the real issues.  Bad teaching is a huge part of it - they teach for 5-10 minutes and then go into group discussion, lack of good curriculum, lack of reinforcement through classwork and homework and then reviewing the homework with the kids, etc. are a bigger problem.

Prior to covid, we heavily supplemented as we saw a huge gap in academics.  Some of the privates we looked at had far worse curriculums.[/quote]

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