Should Large Numbers of K-12 Students Repeat Grades This Year?
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7 responses to “Should Large Numbers of K-12 Students Repeat Grades This Year?”
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Unfortunately, another great article. More damning data.
Of course the education failure ripples to the colleges and universities. Most if not all universities have had to dedicate the Freshman year to recovery and remediation…Sorry, renewal and acceleration.
It is increasingly obvious, however, that for the majority of students that isn’t working very well as universities fall ever-deeper into far-left dogma indoctrination. -
I would support mass retention. I might even put my cape on and go teach one of those retention classes. The nuts and bolts of pulling that off would be difficult.
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It would have been difficult if the assessments and planning had started in May. It is as a practical matter nearly impossible now, especially in the larger districts.
Your concept of retirees coming back to help with the crisis is exactly what should happen. That too has not been discussed at scale, and never by VDOE.
The level of incompetence at the state level is astounding.
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I’m with you, Jim.
This may be the most important educational issue on the table right now. 30% of kids can’t meeting reading standards, 30% can’t meet writing standards, 45% can’t meet math standards, and 40% can’t meet science standards. But they all get a pass, and now they’re enrolled in courses where they will be building upon the foundations they were supposed to gain from last year. Social promotion has always been an issue. Now schools are engaging in social promotion on an unprecedented scale. How many of these kids who fell behind last year will catch up, and how many will stay behind?
This is a calamity. We desperately need a plan to get these kids back on track. What we should have done last summer was identify the kids who failed and use federal helicopter dollars to enroll them in summer school for make-up classes. Some might have caught up. But that didn’t happen. Now the answer is hire more teachers (which is a joke because there are teacher shortages everywhere) and have smaller classes (a joke when you don’t have enough teachers), and teach social-emotional learning. Social-emotional learning? Are you kidding me?
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See my response to Jay Whitehead above. VDOE has totally missed the two major measures that would have helped an entire generation of kids.
1. Large scale retention in grade; and
2. the temporary return of retired teachers and SMEs – volunteers or paid or both – to help with the workload. If asked properly they would pitch in, even if for health reasons they had to help virtually with small groups of kids mustered in school libraries for remedial lessons. Give them the lesson plans and trust them to do it right. I would do it myself if asked, and I’m nearing 76.
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Good fodder for those Youngkin manufacturing jobs.
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All of the handwringing and tooth gnashing over K12 from the BoBs of the Party that gave us Donald Trump rings hollow.
Hmmm. BoBs? It means “Best and Brightest”. BoBs? Not BaBs? Ah, sexism.
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