The schools need a plan to get these kids back up to speed to where they're supposed to be. There is a lot of lost time to make up.

In person school also creates inequitable outcomes for blacks and hispanics.

I mean, this outcome is absolutely obvious to all. We need to plan for remediation, maybe hiring a bunch of new K teachers to repeat all K next year.

Anonymous wrote:Have you ever tried to give Dibels to a K student online? its completely useless because reading on a screen is developmentally inappropriate. It also activates different areas in the brain that reading on paper does not. it is not a true or fair comparison. I am not saying there isn't a drop, but to compare kids taking an assessment on paper to kids taking an assessment on the computer is ludicrous.

this is even more of a case to at least get K back asap.

closing schools is disproportionately hurting minority students, per the Post story:

"At the beginning of the current academic year, the number of Black children who met the literacy benchmarks dropped by 14 percentage points, to 31 percent. For White students, it dropped 6 percentage points, to 67 percent.

Latino students dropped 12 percentage points, from 42 percent of students passing the exam to 30 percent."

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Anonymous wrote:Schools in most of the rest of the country are now open to varying degrees. DC is becoming increasingly isolated in its refusal to allow children to attend school.

check out this map:

https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/map-covid-19-schools-open-closed.html?s_kwcid=AL!6416!3!455874877102!b!!g!!where%20are%20schools%20open&gclid=CjwKCAjw8-78BRA0EiwAFUw8LE4zE-u4hfuMrlNxU3g-DNIGbXURwVSaf7iAgWgtDjfkg9yky_3sCBoCt5EQAvD_BwE

That is just about the orders. It doesn't who who is actually open.

Anonymous wrote:Have you ever tried to give Dibels to a K student online? its completely useless because reading on a screen is developmentally inappropriate. It also activates different areas in the brain that reading on paper does not. it is not a true or fair comparison. I am not saying there isn't a drop, but to compare kids taking an assessment on paper to kids taking an assessment on the computer is ludicrous.

the obvious solution is to open schools so that the test can be fair

Anonymous wrote:Do you really care about this or is this a socially acceptable way to get your kids back in school?

The fact remains that minorities have been disproportionately impacted By Covid. Even if schools opened up tomorrow, they wouldn’t send their kids! So stop it.

Mayor Bowser very much wants to reopen schools. It's my understanding that Mayor Bowser is African-American.

Have you ever tried to give Dibels to a K student online? its completely useless because reading on a screen is developmentally inappropriate. It also activates different areas in the brain that reading on paper does not. it is not a true or fair comparison. I am not saying there isn't a drop, but to compare kids taking an assessment on paper to kids taking an assessment on the computer is ludicrous.

Anonymous wrote:Schools in most of the rest of the country are now open to varying degrees. DC is becoming increasingly isolated in its refusal to allow children to attend school.

check out this map:

https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/map-covid-19-schools-open-closed.html?s_kwcid=AL!6416!3!455874877102!b!!g!!where%20are%20schools%20open&gclid=CjwKCAjw8-78BRA0EiwAFUw8LE4zE-u4hfuMrlNxU3g-DNIGbXURwVSaf7iAgWgtDjfkg9yky_3sCBoCt5EQAvD_BwE

Anonymous wrote:Do you really care about this or is this a socially acceptable way to get your kids back in school?

The fact remains that minorities have been disproportionately impacted By Covid. Even if schools opened up tomorrow, they wouldn’t send their kids! So stop it.

I am a minority and I'm sending my kid back.

Schools in most of the rest of the country are now open to varying degrees. DC is becoming increasingly isolated in its refusal to allow children to attend school.

Do you really care about this or is this a socially acceptable way to get your kids back in school?

The fact remains that minorities have been disproportionately impacted By Covid. Even if schools opened up tomorrow, they wouldn’t send their kids! So stop it.

kids in dc are screwed (except the private school kids)

This really has to end. It's only going to get worse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/data-indicate-worsening-early-literacy-progress-and-widening-achievement-gap-among-district-students/2020/10/30/bebe2914-1a25-11eb-82db-60b15c874105_story.html