look at this guy! what an IDIOT!

my buddies wife teaches in a large district in maryland. He told me about 8 years ago to follow their fb page because its basically like the comedy central of facebook pages and he wasn't wrong. the things these parents gripe about its simply astounding. I'm sure its like this elsewhere but they were shutting down school for snow and people were freaking out , then they'd have school while it was snowing and people sometimes the SAME PEOPLE were freaking out. Right now its a pure shitstorm of people complaining about their 3rd graders graduation times .

Haha. Yeah it's nothing special but a nice little recognition for them moving on to bigger schools.

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Post a link.

3rd grade graduation.

GTFO.

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Third grade graduation... shit.. I guess we switched building after third grade.

I don't care for it especially if it is in the same school. Our school is K thru 12. We have some rural schools that feed into our high school that only go thru 8th grade. That makes sense to me for having an 8th grade graduation

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Oh well yeah all in the same school is silly.

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EVEN THE SCHOOLS IN MISSOURI ARE INBRED !!!!

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Kindergarteners and Graduation

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I am from Arkansas, can we move that back to 6th? It is kind of hard for us to go past that.

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Is the new core math stuff still awful?

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I remember when my wife told me that my oldest was graduating preschool. It nearly caused a divorce. What the fuck is a preschool graduation. You just move on to the next level. We bought an expensive gift and invited extended family out for some fancy expensive meal that I had to cover. Unfucking real. If this virus can get rid of all that stupid shit it may be worth it in the end.

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It's a nice good bye type thing at that age even for moms.

Chill out The Man.

Pre-school graduation is kids singing and dancing and being fun.

It's great.

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Yeah. Pizza, maybe a cake.

The Man took 17 people to Alinea and bought a 4-year-old a Maserati.

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Some of it is, but I don't really think it is too bad overall. There are things that are different, but I think in the big picture it is good because not everyone learns in the same manner.

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It's not necessarily that awful, it's just a shit ton of money .thrown away for no result. for parents it's not how you were taught so it's difficult to help your kid with homework.

Whether it's Common Core, No Child Left Behind....whatever. Parents, home environment, and culture have way more influence on a kids academic success than Curriculum or even individual teachers

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Right.

It's a lot of the same stuff most people already do (like grouping and rounding). It's definitely different though and takes a minute to get used to it.

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Maybe. What frustrated me about it is math is really sets of laws, rules, theorems etc. Those concepts aren't presented well by common core, it's almost as if every problem is new and you have to "think" about it. It maybe helpful in some cases but I think it really screws you down the road because you don't want to think thru everything with math on every problem some things are known or accepted like knowing +/- or x & /. Odd things were concepts were introduced too soon with no real way of explaining it when the concept could easily be taught and explained in a few years. Our district tweaked math and I can't remember what they settled on. It's still pretty bizarre but it's better and easier as kids get older. I think it's really screwy for the younger kids though which messes with the foundations you need to do math.

The math series we are going to next year has very few examples or computation problems. However it is better than the other option which was strictly word problems. I liked our current book but it is no longer updated and being phased out.

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Examples haven't been good for a while, sometimes the books are worthless. It makes it hard.

a lot of teachers showing there ass during these remote instructional days

I understand not being technologically savvy. Being thoroughly disengaged is unacceptable. I think you could already tell the people who went into teaching for the summers off. This has just highlighted those people.

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Ignatius, the cps school or both?

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Yep.

Going into it "for the summers off" doesn't make them bad teachers.

There are plenty of students that are disengaged also. You aren't going to get much value out of this without the ability to assess. Most kids aren't doing the work. The teachers that I know are assigning work through Google classroom.

If parents expect teachers to be as hands on (particularly at the high school level) then they are being unrealistic.

The average high school teachers have between 120-150 students on their roster. Some have 200. All of them aren't going to get Emails.

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Ignatius has been excellent and was fully operational quickly.

CPS finally was operational this week. It's underwhelming but at least it is a daily routine.

archdiocese grade schools have been disappointing with mostly assignments but little daily live interaction.

However (except Ignatius) the bulk of the operations are being carried by about half the teachers. There are some teachers that have disappeared. I saw the art teacher out for a walk when I was taking my walk in the mid morning. This should have been the time for an art teacher to shine.

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Most of my students are turning their work in. Almost none of them are showing for google class meetings.

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That hasn't been the case with many that I have spoken with. When they said that the work wouldn't count they removed most of the incentive.

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They get complete/incomplete. I am getting about 75-80% turn in. Though its not in any type of timely fashion. This is also 6th grade.

The high schools near us aren't even getting close to 50% from what I have been told. We were also told yesterday that if our athletes do not have 5 completes at the end of the semester they can not play sports in the fall if school starts back up.

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It's not a true assessment. Its essentially extra credit at best and at the High School they can mostly forget it. There is no way that they are going to do 6-7 hrs of homework a night.

There was also a wink wink nod nod agreement to lighten the loads of students since the grades "really don't count".
anyway.

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