This news out of Fairfax County schools is just devastating. Kids have lost an entire year and for many, they’ll never make it up:
BREAKING: Stunning data for Fairfax County, VA's largest school system, shows HUGE academic cost of online learning — Fs up by 83% this year.
Vulnerable children struggling most: Fs for students w/ disabilities up by 111%, for English learners up by 106% https://t.co/wrkIy2V9k2
— Hannah Natanson (@hannah_natanson) November 24, 2020
By the way, this was “entirely predictable”:
Entirely predictable. But what gets me is that in the spring we had incomplete data over whether schools were safe. It was at least debatable. Now the science is clear that schools are the safe. What politicians are doing is abominable. https://t.co/taXajpFn6r
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) November 24, 2020
As a matter of fact, this editor predicted it back in July after people cheered on remote learning “success” even though nobody was graded back then:
I’m not sure parents are ready for the absolute clusterf*ck it’s going to be now that teachers will be giving real grades this time around. https://t.co/sceq32ZdBm
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) July 27, 2020
Now watch as politicians dodge responsibility for what went wrong:
Virginia leaders have miserably failed and ignored our children. It’s an ongoing tragedy and it should not be forgotten. @JeffreyCMcKay @GovernorVA @FCPSSupt https://t.co/qOP3wWkKhg
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) November 24, 2020
And we don’t even know how much worse it’s going to get:
We are only beginning to understand the long term damage that is being done across all aspects of our life. https://t.co/oMuQg0O6VH
— Chris Vanderveen (@chrisvanderveen) November 24, 2020
Yep:
We're gonna need a makeup year for a lot of kids. https://t.co/4sWmWCRf3C
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) November 24, 2020
And, sadly, this is likely to be the outcome: Fix the problem by eliminating the failing grade:
This is about as likely to be used as a pretext for getting rid of Fs as it is to be a wakeup call for how damaging this is. https://t.co/m7s3N6Hpfs
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) November 24, 2020
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