Anonymous
Post 01/25/2021 15:19     Subject: 4th grade dropouts
People who are saying that elementary “kids are getting behind:

Behind what? Behind who?
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2021 15:18     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
I do think it would have been nice if they gave us the option to just take this year off from school.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2021 15:14     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.


Are you familiar with Virginia’s compulsory education laws?


How can it be compulsory if the state fails to provide an education? Sounds like a great defense to me. Let the county try to defend its alleged educational services this year.


The state isn't failing. My child is learning. Many children are learning. YOURS are not. That's not the schools' failing. It's yours and your children.


It is certainly the state's, and more specifically the district's, failing. The word game you're playing isn't working any more. Local school boards across the districts are becoming increasingly alarmed at the educational damage.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2021 15:12     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.


Are you familiar with Virginia’s compulsory education laws?


How can it be compulsory if the state fails to provide an education? Sounds like a great defense to me. Let the county try to defend its alleged educational services this year.


The state isn't failing. My child is learning. Many children are learning. YOURS are not. That's not the schools' failing. It's yours and your children.


Are they really? I have a 6th grader who is getting all 4's but only because she has learned to google the answers. She remembers literally nothing.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2021 15:09     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.


Are you familiar with Virginia’s compulsory education laws?


How can it be compulsory if the state fails to provide an education? Sounds like a great defense to me. Let the county try to defend its alleged educational services this year.


The state isn't failing. My child is learning. Many children are learning. YOURS are not. That's not the schools' failing. It's yours and your children.


No it’s the lazy teachers failing. Good luck to your kids next year when they’re stuck with every other kid that learned NOTHING this year. Have fun twiddling your thumbs since you did such a fantastic job teaching them.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2021 14:44     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.


Are you familiar with Virginia’s compulsory education laws?


How can it be compulsory if the state fails to provide an education? Sounds like a great defense to me. Let the county try to defend its alleged educational services this year.


The state isn't failing. My child is learning. Many children are learning. YOURS are not. That's not the schools' failing. It's yours and your children.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 18:08     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for talking me off the ledge. I'm feeling a bit better now and of course I'm going to work with them on math and English. Just for maybe an hour or two a day - just not 7 hours a day. And I'm not enrolling them anywhere. I can follow Khan Academy and IXL for math and I've got a really good idea of what they need in terms of English since I'm a journalist and I've been reading what they write. I'll update if I hear from the school board or CPS or the truancy police (Who is that, exactly? My husband is asking.)


Hi OP!

I saw this stoem.coming in the summer and pulled my 5th grader. DH and I work FT and we spend, between thr 2 of us about 4.5hrs a day doing the vavak12 program. 20% online 80% us. Our "school hours" are often very odd.

I can assure you spending 1-2 hours with your children a day will be wayyyy more productive than the charade that the public schools are performing.

We are currently on the hunt for an opening in private school. After seeing what friends and peers are going through quite frankly I don't want my kids in the same educational setting as other kids who have been assaulted by our public schools. The remediation these kids who will have had over a year without an education will be absolutely miserable.


Hire help. Kids have not been assaulted. Stop the drama.


Obviously a wealthy person. Not everyone can afford to just "hire help!" Our business is still going thankfully but we pay ourselves 50 percent less so we can afford to keep our staff and have all year.


If you have staff you are wealthy. We are not. We just make it work.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:57     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:OP here - I wrote to me school board member and asked if there were any rules about dropping out of online learning and she said she didn't know and she would ask the assistant superintendent. So until I hear differently, my children have officially dropped out.


Why not email your assistant superintendent yourself?
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:56     Subject: 4th grade dropouts
OMG, I can guess the contents of this post just by reading OP.

Here are the responses you received:

1. Go post your stuff in the homeschool forum.
2. You are a bad parent, your are failing your children and ruining their futures!
3. You did the right thing, FCPS is failing our children and ruining their futures!
4. #openFCPS
5. #DLForever
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:44     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.


Are you familiar with Virginia’s compulsory education laws?


How can it be compulsory if the state fails to provide an education? Sounds like a great defense to me. Let the county try to defend its alleged educational services this year.


My FCPS child is getting an education.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:43     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.


Are you just giving your kids an extended vacation until in-person school starts in March? I'm not criticizing, I know it's been hard for a lot of people, I'm just curious why you'd unenroll right when they finally announce new dates.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:22     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm not really sure what it means to be honest. I'm not signing up for a homeschooling program. My husband and I both work although our hours are flexible. This afternoon we just all sort of hit the wall. My kids had epic meltdowns after school - my daughter crying endlessly about her headache - and then I got another email from FCPS pushing back distance learning and we decided we can't do it anymore.


Are you familiar with Virginia’s compulsory education laws?


NP. Screw you. When Virginia provides F2F education for the littles, then we can discuss compulsory education of that age group. Virginia and FCPS aren’t holding up their end of the bargain, when they do, I’m sure OP will educate her kids.

OP, I’d leave them on the rolls and just have them be complete no shows. They don’t count against the school or the school system in evaluating participation in DL if they aren’t enrolled. Now the school and FCPS can ignore them, rather than being forced to deal with the problems of DL.

— signed a HS paren who wakes up every morning to a miserable kid and is still grateful we are navigating this at 16 and not 6. Do what you gotta do OP.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:16     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
OP here - I wrote to me school board member and asked if there were any rules about dropping out of online learning and she said she didn't know and she would ask the assistant superintendent. So until I hear differently, my children have officially dropped out.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:16     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
We basically did nothing for the fall semester. Technically we were enrolled in our county as homeschoolers but we didn’t homeschool. We were abroad in a safer country so we did sightseeing. We read a few books but not a lot. My kids had a language tutor and my son took martial arts. We then moved to a new state and enrolled kids and they seem to be fine. YMMV.
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2021 17:15     Subject: Re:4th grade dropouts
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone for talking me off the ledge. I'm feeling a bit better now and of course I'm going to work with them on math and English. Just for maybe an hour or two a day - just not 7 hours a day. And I'm not enrolling them anywhere. I can follow Khan Academy and IXL for math and I've got a really good idea of what they need in terms of English since I'm a journalist and I've been reading what they write. I'll update if I hear from the school board or CPS or the truancy police (Who is that, exactly? My husband is asking.)


Hi OP!

I saw this stoem.coming in the summer and pulled my 5th grader. DH and I work FT and we spend, between thr 2 of us about 4.5hrs a day doing the vavak12 program. 20% online 80% us. Our "school hours" are often very odd.

I can assure you spending 1-2 hours with your children a day will be wayyyy more productive than the charade that the public schools are performing.

We are currently on the hunt for an opening in private school. After seeing what friends and peers are going through quite frankly I don't want my kids in the same educational setting as other kids who have been assaulted by our public schools. The remediation these kids who will have had over a year without an education will be absolutely miserable.


Hire help. Kids have not been assaulted. Stop the drama.


Obviously a wealthy person. Not everyone can afford to just "hire help!" Our business is still going thankfully but we pay ourselves 50 percent less so we can afford to keep our staff and have all year.