Albuquerque Public Schools lost 7% of its students in one year.

The lack of effort to account for these missing children is rather astounding.

Did they switch to a different schooling option (private, charter, another district, homeschool)? Did their families move? Are they just home and not attending school of any kind?

Does anybody care to find out?!

https://www.abqjournal.com/2482136/so-where-did-5500-aps-students-go.html

We don’t allow hats, hoods, beanies, or sunglasses in the classroom because they are a distraction.

So what do we call a cloth mask that covers the child’s nose and mouth? 🤔

This is the policy in APS too. I’ve been taught that if a child wants to be called a different name and/or pronouns at school, I am to do so and not tell the parents unless the parents specifically ask about it. I have not yet had to face this with any of my students, but I know we have kids at my middle school who go by a different gender at school than at home.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/a-moms-fight-to-save-her-daughter-from-trans-orthodoxy-at-school/?fbclid=IwAR0VneS9BsWHetzK4udqVV7FVIiQSpnETy05ql25wyGYEvFh5waplqnFmRc

This is apparently from Salem-Keizer Public Schools in Oregon. Highlights are from the original poster, not me.

“In other words, the majority of kids in two out of every five schools in the Albuquerque Public School district missed 18 or more days in the 2020 to 2021 school year. In some schools, up to 80% or 90% of the students were chronically absent.”

https://www.krqe.com/news/education/which-albuquerque-schools-have-the-worst-attendance/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR0Fe6neLw5uUdJCo5gj4jf-CgQaznSpYM-9TOj01jQu845in6LpfQTx5lo

Imagine how racist you have to be to think that “black and brown” students shouldn’t be expected to do math on grade level like their peers.

SWBAT = students will be able to

Seen on Facebook

“He found that teachers with the highest grading standards increase their students’ end-of-course scores on standardized tests by 16.9 percent of a standard deviation over teachers with the lowest grading standards.”

Not shocking at all! My students complain that I give too much work, it’s too hard, etc, but I regularly remind them that the reason I push hard is because I want them to be at grade-level proficiency and have developed a strong work ethic and study skills by the time they get to high school.

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/when-teachers-are-tough-graders-students-learn-more-study-says/2020/02?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=soc&utm_campaign=edit&fbclid=IwAR0ZnbyLR39S0etsdM7iGB4MqUzqBuHJ0sjebIpccqVEf4GuTQ21VoQg5kY

Reportedly from 3rd grade in Tucson, Arizona

“The Biden administration says transgender kids are entitled to ‘gender-affirming’ medical care. These girls disagree. ‘I have this intense rage in me over the harm that was done to me.’”

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-testosterone-hangover?s=r

This video gives some interesting insights into the current issues in our schools on a national level:
https://www.prageru.com/video/miseducated-the-decline-of-americas-schools