Seattle School District approach to grades, computers, etc.
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First: I will tell you that I don’t have a proverbial horse in this race or dog in this show. My son attended JSIS, Hamilton, and Ingraham, and now he is out in the real world with a mask like the rest of us. But I read Danny Westneat’s article in the Times this morning (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/as-for-all-is-the-most-seattle-thing-ever-and-cover-for-the-school-districts-own-poor-marks/) about the SSD approach to the coronavirus crisis and the school year, and it is best concerning and at worst, alarming. Is “all-As” the best the minds in the district could come up with to address the needs of the kids? And probably not an issue here in Wallyhood, but the issue of distributing computers to students who do not have ready access to computers was, as far as I can tell, bungled. Every time we appear to reset the dysfunctional school board, circumstances tell us we chose poorly. Why is that? As I said, my kid made it out of the SSD alive, so I don’t have a vested interest. But other Wallyhoodlums who DO have students in the district…what do you think? Are you fine with just writing off the year and pushing the kids onward?
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I have not yet seen the article. I do work for SSD. I am aware there is a great deal of discussion re the best means of grading and how kids are affected. This is simply an unprecedented time. Thus there are many opinions, plans and objections from stakeholders. There will be (at the moment) SSD summer school, tutoring available and possibly some kids’ summer activity groups ( Boys n Girls Club, Seattle Parks Programs) might include some academic programs. Keep asking for more summer school. Ask at the school level for mini-programs, classes of 10 or so at a grade level. Keep asking Om Culture Center , Bn G Club, Kids Co. for etc. for academic support programs. Consider getting a nanny/tutor. However things do turn out once we get to school year 2020-21 teachers, parents and children are all faced with classes of kids who had extremely different options and support since 3/11/2020, our last day of school when kids were sent home without books and told “we will be back in 2 weeks”.I do know one idea which was floating around was to have longer instructional days next year. Agree or not! Some adjustments will have to be made. Kids can not walk into next year’s grade, open up next years’ books and move ahead as though they all had last year’s full curriculum instruction.
More will be discussed and planned. You have avenues to provide feedback and ask questions re this year’s online and streamed instruction, grading policies from the teachers as well as to provide input to the school board as well as OSPI. Please speak up.
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