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Anonymous wrote:When are these f$cker5 going to apologize for their incompetence? Any staff that blames parents for this travesty should be fired immediately and investigated for bribery.

The Benchmark Assessment System (BAS) is one of the most popular measures of early reading ability in American elementary schools. Teachers are supposed to use it as a checkup to see how students are progressing throughout the year. But researchers who’ve studied it say the BAS is wrong far too often to be useful. It is also more expensive for the schools and more time-consuming for the teachers to administer, according to an analysis comparing it to other tests. One professor who analyzed the BAS said it was worse at identifying struggling readers than any assessment he had ever seen. That means struggling readers might be less likely to get the help they need before they fall even further behind their classmates.

And by the way, our MCPS school is STILL sending BS Benchmark books home. Yes, in fall 2024. Instead of finding something useful to do with them, like burning them to heat buildings, they are sending them home to further inculcate bad reading habits.

Staff are blaming parents for kid’s behavior. Behavior that is making the learning environment untenable for all. It doesn’t matter what curriculum or strategies are being used now if teachers are spending more time managing behaviors than teaching.

Omg, EVERYTHING is somebody else's fault in MCPS. Jfc

I’m an ESOL teacher so I’m in a lot of classrooms in ES. The teachers ARE teaching. There is so much content to cover. Kids’ attention spans are shot—even the good kids are constantly talking, and it’s not due to lack of behavior management tools and effort from teachers. They are up against iPad kids who truly don’t have attention span anymore because of that immediate gratification and lack of boredom that has trained their brains away from focus. I see it at all socio economic levels. We just had parent teacher conferences and at my school the students can come. Almost every kid I saw in the hallways waiting or in an actual conference was handed a phone. I know that is to attempt to keep them quiet, but at what cost? We used to have other ways to keep kids quiet and since it’s defaulted to the screen, kids everywhere are being harmed.

And yes, I think schools use too many screens as well—it’s coming from both school and home and it’s bringing down the intelligence and focus of the future generation. The screens have got to go.

MCPS just this year introduced a curriculum that isn't total BS. Stop pretending MCPS has nothing to do with low literacy rates.

Btw are you a parent? Nobody I know has their kids watching videos all the time. I watched a ton of TV as a kid in the 90s. I think you are desperate to blame parents but there is something else going on here.

Do you ever go out in public and look around?

Yes and I see what multiple studies have shown which is that parents are constantly playing with and engaging their kids. Much more than our our parents' generation did.

My parents were barely involved in my education besides sending me to school. I never had help with homework and they certainly didn't teach me to read. The expectations on parents have vastly increased during this time. Now it is the parents' job to teach kids to read, not the teachers' job since they have been using a useless curriculum.