Davis School District-Eliminate Summit Learning and Personalized Learning

I retired from Farmington Jr. High school at the end of the 2021-22 school year. One of the key reasons was that my 9th grade World Geography class would be shifting to SUMMIT, and I refused to use that platform for many of the reasons stated in other comments. I spent 25 years seeing a good portion of the world in my career as a US Army officer, and then shared that experience with my students for 10 years at Farmington JH. Under Summit - all my experience would be totally useless. There were other reasons I retired, but SUMMIT was one of the major ones.

Summit has not only made my kids feel dumb, but has now started giving them anxiety.

I have gone from being a B to A- student and am now failing most if not all my classes because of this bull crap program.

DSD needs to stop bitching about mental health when they are perpetuating the issue through their use of this awful program.

My children have drastically changed in negative ways in relation to school due to Summit. We are homeschooling 2, our oldest is going to limp through his senior year, and our youngest will be pulled next year. This is a horrible program and DSD should be ashamed - stop bitching about mental health when you are perpetuating its acceleration through the use of this worthless program.

This has been a difficult platform for my son and also for me. I have very little opportunity to get involved or hold my son accountable to his work. This program takes the parent out of the child's education.

We must remove the Summit Learning Program from our schools immediately!

Summit is for liberals get it out of my life, I used to be passing all of my classes with B's or A's and now I'm struggling to stay at a C in most of my classes.

When you have 3 different programs for one school kid its a lot.

Get this crap excuse for a learning platform out of our schools now

I don’t trust ANYTHING the Gates or Zuckerbergs touch! They DO NOT have our children’s best interests at heart!

Summit is HORRIBLE!!!!

bruh pls get rid of summit it sucks

Parents know what is best for their children. This program eliminates that opportunity and destroys any privacy. Why are we spending our tax dollars to allow this kind of technology into the classroom when the research from the Covid online teaching was such an abject failure.

My son is soooo confused with how to navigate Summit

Having been an adjunct professor, I don't see how this will prepare the kids for actual critical thinking. It ineffectively uses the backwards design.

This program is causing so many problems for my junior high student.

Summit Learning is a slap in the face to teachers that have spent years in college studying and preparing to teach kids in the classroom. It was a crutch for the district that has been loosing so many teachers to retirement. 50% of teachers at DSD are over the age of 50yrs and it is hard to hire new qualified teachers in Utah because we don't pay well and the class sizes are so big. We moved here from the Midwest where teachers were required to have a Masters Degree just to teach Kindergarten and they will pay them double or triple what they would make in Utah. As Utahan's we need to PAY and ATTRACT better teachers, not throw in a crappy online program that doesn't need a teacher in the classroom to operate (only a "facilitator"). PLEASE look at the root of the problem and not put a Band-aid over it with a terrible product like Summit Learning.

Having two kids in junior high that had to do this program last year. It was extremely frustrating to them. I am glad to hear that this year summit is an opt in program at Clearfield High, which one will move up to, but I haven't heard that that will be an option for the junior highs that feed into them. I think it discourages kids by failing for 7out of 10 and then they can pull them up at home so parents can see if they can help them understand the assignment.

Summit should be a choice, not the standard.