The drop in proficiency was most pronounced among black students in kindergarten through second grade, who suffered a benchmark regression of over 30%. White and Latino students from those age brackets saw drops of 6% and 12%, respectively, according to the Washington Post.
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Why do these kids need to learn to read anything more than the letter 'D'? What a waste of time.
ReplyDeletePut a checkmark on their ballot with anything marked 'D', and their life will be taken care of.
Bingo!
DeleteSo, we will have to lower the bar even more so's those black kids don't feel inferior. There is a difference between feeling and being inferior. One day our kids will graduate from High school at a third grade level. However, they will know how to dribble a basset balls.
ReplyDeleteA double digit score drop in a shit hole city like DC would mean the scores were a negative number now
ReplyDeleteIt's not like these "students" were going to MIT, Cal Tech, Yale and Princeton. I think that the penitentiaries will still accept them, even with the extra low scores.
Delete"It's not like these "students" were going to MIT, Cal Tech, Yale and Princeton. I think that the penitentiaries will still accept them, even with the extra low scores."
DeleteAnd the local morgue will take the ones slower on the draw than the penitentiary-bound.
Unknown pretty much has it right. If mom and dad, well, mom anyway doesn't value education, why should the kids? Mom is probably just ticked that the free daycare is shutdown.
ReplyDeleteHell, DC high school "graduates" couldn't read past the 3rd or 4th grade levels a few years ago. No great surprise.
ReplyDeleteBTW, DC's spending per student is the HIGHEST in the nation.
Yet, surprisingly (not,) most of the money goes not to teachers but to admin pukes and counselors and other non-edumacation types.
DeleteJust like everywhere else.
That's good for Die Partei: the more money goes to school teachers the more money goes to teachers unions the more money goes to the democrats.
DeleteMission accomplished.
How does one become 30% dumber than dirt?
ReplyDeleteDC went 93% to the dems. Correlation?
ReplyDeleteBet your ass.
So a 30% drop from learning ebonics?
ReplyDeleteDas rayciss n' sheeeit!
DeleteFor my high school kid, remote learning has been a disaster. Technology issues, communication (or lack of) issues, teachers not grading papers, teachers staging a 2 day walkout last month, etc. Students are doing a semester's work in a quarter and the only get half the actual class time. Absolute cluster.
ReplyDeleteAnyone tried books instead of the electronics? Old books, from before the brainwashing and stupefaction became too powerful for young plastic brains to withstand...
ReplyDeleteIf we let the federal gubmint take over learning, everything will be fine. Teachers, administrators, school boards, parents paid by federal deposit, what could go wrong? Also, let federal overseers move kids around so no one band, athletic team or academic team is better than any other. Equality and etcetera.
ReplyDeleteWe've lost a generation of younger kids. I have a first grader and an senior (lol at retirement), and both have had issues. We live in a nice area, and the regression of the younger kids is horrible. I think the only saving grace is that kids are resilient.
ReplyDeleteWell, being under the bell curve might have it's advantages.
ReplyDeleteLots of potential Mayors coming out of their skools.
ReplyDeleteSome of this may be that "result-based grading" isn't practical over the current teleteaching system. In order to keep their stats up, it's common for some teachers to "adjust" grades up to make themselves look better.
ReplyDeletePoor kids are just as smart as white kids.
ReplyDeleteYou spelled that wrong. "Poor White kids and just as smart as not-poor White kids".
DeleteThere, fixed it for you
I have to comment on this one. My better half works in a suburban Atlanta elementary school, and she tells me that after the 2019-2020 school year ended early, and the 2020-2021 school year started stricly via remote learing, that the kids are behind. Part of it is the lost days at the end of last school year. Another part is the total unpreparedness of the school system. Another part is the lack of experience teaching this way. Another part is the parents suddenly realizing how much their children need them, but most of them don't have the ability to quit working and stay at home, essentially becoming a teachers' assistant.
ReplyDeleteI don't expect her situation to get much better until some really old folks remind all of the younger ones that as parents, being a teacher is a major part of being a parent, even if you have to google the answer to every question.
If I'm wrong, or you disagree, tell me what you think.
Lots of Texas kids were sent home to go on remote from their school and instead went to conventional Home Schooling programs, liked it, did well and are now checking out of public schools. This years gains in homeschooling rose 400% over 2019.
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ReplyDeleteI think you do a stupendous job with this blog but I have to fault you on this post. It should have been headlined something like this: "Shocking Revelation" "In a surprising development" or "Unexpected development"
Could you please be more attentive to detail in your postings...
He could use the time honored journalist's word "Unexpectedly".
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