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Opinion: Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction says COVID-19 school shutdowns did not put students behind
Liv Finne says that telling the public that students are ‘not behind’ but ‘gained a lot’ from the shutdowns gives families yet another reason to distrust the public schoo...
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Reykdahl comments are designed to cover the incompetence of the leadership of this state and the school system .
Obviously, Liv Finne is out of touch with reality, as well as with Washington’s sorry state of education. She needs to look at the statistics showing what percentage of students fail in math and English, for their grade level. Then she comes up with some ridiculous notion that our students actually gained in literacy during the shut down; crazy ideas and like minded people like her are part of the current problem. I hope she wasn’t a teacher, too.
No, she put those quotes from OPSI in quotations. Meaning she absolutely disagreed with their remarks.
Of course I agree. But not for reasons most would expect.
Bulletin: academic outcomes in Washington Public Schools were horrific before anyone had ever heard of covid. Schools were doing a terrible job long before covid became an issue. Why does anyone blame covid for the academic catastrophe we’re confronted with now?
You want to see how awful it is, go to the OSPI’s own report card website:
https://washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/
We are wasting billions on a system that has 67.2% of students attending school regularly yet graduates 82%. How is that even possible?
50.7% are at grade level in English, 37.7% in math and 42.7% in science.
How are these kids graduating without achieving grade level in these subjects?
We are being ROBBED of our taxes for a system that is now, and has been for decades, a total and utter disgrace.
And covid had nothing to do with that.