Anonymous wrote:College Board, describe your options. You must have contingency plans in place for a situation such as this. My kid is supposed to take five AP exams in May, a Chem subject test in May and the SAT in June.

Yeah college board definitely had a plan for an unprecedented society-changing worldwide pandemic. They’re preparing brand new DBQ questions right now with current cartoons and texts. Pull your heads out of your asses!

College Board, describe your options. You must have contingency plans in place for a situation such as this. My kid is supposed to take five AP exams in May, a Chem subject test in May and the SAT in June.

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Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated

No they won’t. The kids have completed 3/4 of the year. Tbh, 4th quarter is almost all standardized prep and testing and “other fun stuff” anyway. And the tests WILL be waived this year. 1st-3rd quarter are the ones where kids are actively learning new stuff and applying it to different concepts with each progressing quarter. 4th quarter is “we have to prep you for all these tests and how can we recap everything we’ve learned?” It’s not ideal but they’ll be ok missing 4th quarter if they have to.
Schools cannot and will not retain an entire cohort of students across the country. That’s ridiculous.

-public high school teacher

Teachers reading this - are you preparing for online education for high school students?

No. We will get guidance later this week but everything we plan and post will be supplemental and about reinforcing already learned skills. It won’t be graded and it will be optional. We cannot hold students responsible for suddenly learning via an online platform when we can’t guarantee access to computer or WiFi or that they have an appropriate work environment at home. Legally, there’s no way to ensure sped and EL students are receiving services and accommodations they are legally required to have with regard to instruction. It’s not going to be online education in any true shape or form. It’s impossible to transfer a brick and mortar school to any online platform for all students on such short notice.

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Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated

No they won’t. The kids have completed 3/4 of the year. Tbh, 4th quarter is almost all standardized prep and testing and “other fun stuff” anyway. And the tests WILL be waived this year. 1st-3rd quarter are the ones where kids are actively learning new stuff and applying it to different concepts with each progressing quarter. 4th quarter is “we have to prep you for all these tests and how can we recap everything we’ve learned?” It’s not ideal but they’ll be ok missing 4th quarter if they have to.
Schools cannot and will not retain an entire cohort of students across the country. That’s ridiculous.

-public high school teacher

Teachers reading this - are you preparing for online education for high school students?

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Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated

Just a mom here with 3 FCPS students. I have been thinking that maybe FCPS would start the next school yr with a one or two semester review and students would then advance to their year/grad level. So, my current high school junior would (optimistic prediction here) begin the school year as a "junior/senior." Schools would get the students caught up to meet grad requirements. I understand there would need to be huge adjustments at all levels.

A two semester review is... a year

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Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated

No they won’t. The kids have completed 3/4 of the year. Tbh, 4th quarter is almost all standardized prep and testing and “other fun stuff” anyway. And the tests WILL be waived this year. 1st-3rd quarter are the ones where kids are actively learning new stuff and applying it to different concepts with each progressing quarter. 4th quarter is “we have to prep you for all these tests and how can we recap everything we’ve learned?” It’s not ideal but they’ll be ok missing 4th quarter if they have to.
Schools cannot and will not retain an entire cohort of students across the country. That’s ridiculous.

-public high school teacher

Exactly. Plus,what would they do with the incoming kindergarteners?

And graduating seniors! It’s like some people have really not caught up that we are not playing the normal school game anymore. The rules just changed, people. The game board is entirely different.

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Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated

No they won’t. The kids have completed 3/4 of the year. Tbh, 4th quarter is almost all standardized prep and testing and “other fun stuff” anyway. And the tests WILL be waived this year. 1st-3rd quarter are the ones where kids are actively learning new stuff and applying it to different concepts with each progressing quarter. 4th quarter is “we have to prep you for all these tests and how can we recap everything we’ve learned?” It’s not ideal but they’ll be ok missing 4th quarter if they have to.
Schools cannot and will not retain an entire cohort of students across the country. That’s ridiculous.

-public high school teacher

Exactly. Plus,what would they do with the incoming kindergarteners?

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly, at this point, the only harm is missing the rest of the classes for my DD (senior) is she will not get the AP credit for her classes. She will have to take Calc (second semester), etc next year in college. Even if she got zeros for the rest of the year, she would pass her courses and graduate.

I am hoping they come up with a distance learning plan, but am not sure that will happen. I am guessing AP classes are canceled.

And the colleges need the freshmen since they have gone to distance learning, and not closing.

Also there is no way in hell we are repeating the fall semester of the senior year. That was too much,

PP here. I should add, my DD has said, she does not want last Thursday to be her last day of HS.

Well- let’s set the world up to act how a 17 year old girl wants it to BE.

Mom- start moming, would ya?

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Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated

No they won’t. The kids have completed 3/4 of the year. Tbh, 4th quarter is almost all standardized prep and testing and “other fun stuff” anyway. And the tests WILL be waived this year. 1st-3rd quarter are the ones where kids are actively learning new stuff and applying it to different concepts with each progressing quarter. 4th quarter is “we have to prep you for all these tests and how can we recap everything we’ve learned?” It’s not ideal but they’ll be ok missing 4th quarter if they have to.
Schools cannot and will not retain an entire cohort of students across the country. That’s ridiculous.

-public high school teacher

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, at this point, the only harm is missing the rest of the classes for my DD (senior) is she will not get the AP credit for her classes. She will have to take Calc (second semester), etc next year in college. Even if she got zeros for the rest of the year, she would pass her courses and graduate.

I am hoping they come up with a distance learning plan, but am not sure that will happen. I am guessing AP classes are canceled.

And the colleges need the freshmen since they have gone to distance learning, and not closing.

Also there is no way in hell we are repeating the fall semester of the senior year. That was too much,

PP here. I should add, my DD has said, she does not want last Thursday to be her last day of HS.

Frankly, at this point, the only harm is missing the rest of the classes for my DD (senior) is she will not get the AP credit for her classes. She will have to take Calc (second semester), etc next year in college. Even if she got zeros for the rest of the year, she would pass her courses and graduate.

I am hoping they come up with a distance learning plan, but am not sure that will happen. I am guessing AP classes are canceled.

And the colleges need the freshmen since they have gone to distance learning, and not closing.

Also there is no way in hell we are repeating the fall semester of the senior year. That was too much,

3/4 the year is over. They aren't going to repeat it. Next year will just be a more accelerated pace.

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Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated

Just a mom here with 3 FCPS students. I have been thinking that maybe FCPS would start the next school yr with a one or two semester review and students would then advance to their year/grad level. So, my current high school junior would (optimistic prediction here) begin the school year as a "junior/senior." Schools would get the students caught up to meet grad requirements. I understand there would need to be huge adjustments at all levels.

So not only do we need to work two jobs (split schedule so we never seen each other) but we need to homeschool our kids too?!!

How does no one see this as unsustainable?? Maybe in a society of SAHMs like we had in the 1940s. I was talking to my grandma the other day about WWII and she said her and her siblings all just dropped their kids off with grandparents or aunts. And then big daycares opened by the city (state?). It wasn’t a big deal finding childcare. Versus now when you can’t get a single person to watch your kids during the day. Not even for $15 an hour. My parents have always flown in for summer breaks or daycare breaks but not now. They don’t want to get sick

Anonymous wrote:How can they move to the next grade when they didn’t learn the material of the current grade? Especially math? It makes no sense.

grades will be repeated