Anonymous
Post 01/25/2023 09:04     Subject: New - Free, On-Demand Online/Virtual Tutoring Available for All Students, K-12

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wait...are you telling us that MCPS-paid, on-grade-level, online tutoring aimed at catching students up from pandemic learning loss/keeping students from falling behind their baseline grade of study is not achieving the same results as family-paid, acceleration- & enrichment-oriented, in-person tutoring aimed at exposing students to more interesting/advanced concepts and improving test scores at the higher end?

Mind. Blown.


This is for everyone, or just those struggling. Stop blaming Covid. Kids have been in person two years now.


Blaming Covid? Get over yourself and accept that there was a learning impact from it. (Not yet) two years of in-person hasn't completely overcome the loss across the student population.

Not just for those struggling? Try getting that tutoring set up for enrichment -- something more than is offered in the curriculum for your kid's grade. At best you'll get varying acceptance across the school admins that need to approve. More likely you'll get a "that's not what this is for" reply. Sure, anyone can access it, but if it largely is constrained to that in which a student already is demonstrating mastery, what's the point?

I'm not saying having this isn't a good thing. Just that it isn't comparable to that accessible by high-SES families. A read-between-the-lines, there, with the nod to test scores is not to abolish those privately-accessed resources, but to make sure MCPS recognizes the continued dichotomy and adjusts policies accordingly. Like not relying on exposure-based test scores when determining suitability for enriched programming.


We are using the set use for several subjects. Are you? We have had a decent expand thankful for it.

My kids did not experience learning kids. We made sure of it. There are always kids struggling but Mcps is offering lots of help so if you choose not to use it that’s on you. And we do it for both support and enrichment.


Are you getting some tutoring for writing?
Anonymous
Post 01/24/2023 22:34     Subject: New - Free, On-Demand Online/Virtual Tutoring Available for All Students, K-12

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who is paying for this though?


You and me! Taxpayer funded, baby!

Yep! We're the public in public education.