Robinson

[Anonymous]

There’s an ES across Robinson that has mediocre math but better reading teachers than higher ranked ES. I think this is an important factor.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s an ES across Robinson that has mediocre math but better reading teachers than higher ranked ES. I think this is an important factor.

What?

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Anonymous wrote:I believe that Principals get to decide if they are going to house a Level IV program at their school, at least i know that had been the case on the ES level. Our school is a language immersion school and the Principal, honestly I think it was most of the Teachers as well, did not want a Local Level IV in the school. Teacher friends I talked to about Level IV who teach at our school were pretty dismissive. So we did not have a Local Level IV program. That is changing this year, I believe that FCPS is now requiring all ES to have Local Level IV and that they have three years, including this year, to establish a program.

I suspect that MS have the same flexibility. If Robinson does not have AAP classes for the MS crowd, it is because it is not of interest to the Staff at the school and not enough parents have asked/demanded one. Honestly, the families at my ES are pretty happy with the base and very few kids attend the Center. That could be the case for the Robinson feeder ES.

If fcps school board wanted to fix "equity" between the schools without a bunch of controversy, they could do this quite easily.

All they need to do is to add a middle school and elementary school level IV AAP center in every damn high school pyramid.

There is no escuse other than giving smart kids a way to transfer 9ut of districts like Lewis and Mount Vernon, for fcps to not offe4 an innzone AAP track at every single pyramid.

But of course, they refuse to take the easiest, most effective, cheapest option with the most immediate results.

I believe that is what they are doing.

[Anonymous]

Nothing wrong with Robinson, OP. The school ratings don’t seem to rate IB as high as AP for whatever reason.

We chose to send our AAP kid to Robinson. He’s fine. He’s not getting an inferior education. White Oaks and Lake Braddock would not have been superior in any way. If you want a full AP slate, you’ll have to go elsewhere, but there’s nothing wrong with the education your kid will get at Robinson.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing wrong with Robinson, OP. The school ratings don’t seem to rate IB as high as AP for whatever reason.

We chose to send our AAP kid to Robinson. He’s fine. He’s not getting an inferior education. White Oaks and Lake Braddock would not have been superior in any way. If you want a full AP slate, you’ll have to go elsewhere, but there’s nothing wrong with the education your kid will get at Robinson.

What about bullying?

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing wrong with Robinson, OP. The school ratings don’t seem to rate IB as high as AP for whatever reason.

We chose to send our AAP kid to Robinson. He’s fine. He’s not getting an inferior education. White Oaks and Lake Braddock would not have been superior in any way. If you want a full AP slate, you’ll have to go elsewhere, but there’s nothing wrong with the education your kid will get at Robinson.

What about bullying?

I’m sure it exists. I hope my kid doesn’t experience it and lets me know if he does.

[Anonymous]

Middle school kids are challenged appropriately in the honors classes at Robinson. My kid did the full IB diploma and it was very rigorous. She got into a very competitive private college and felt she was as well prepared as the kids from the fancy private schools in the Northeast.

The only problem with Robinson is with the special ed program, where some teachers seem to think that following IEPs is an option, not a requirement.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is a rising 7th at Robinson SS. We've heard good things about it from neighbors who seem happy. It does seem middle of the road compared to Woodson, McLean, Langley, etc. but honestly I feel that most public schools in the area are pretty much the same. We supplement with tutoring classes and extracurricular like other families in FFX co. On the upside, we love our neighborhood and the walkability to the ES and secondary school. We had thought of sending kid to Lake Braddock for continued AAP but it didn't seem worth it. We like walking to school so that won out.

Thank you PP. We are another AAP family sending our kid to Robinson for 7th. We also live like a five minute walk away. It just doesn't make sense to tack on a bus ride when there's a perfectly good school right here.

You are choosing being able to walk to school over receiving a more rigorous education with overall more capable peers? That is insane, and that is why Robinson underperforms its demographics - the community there has messed up values.

Messed up values? Sure, if that’s what you call opting to have kids go to a perfectly good school with a full honors slate, be home by 3pm to relax at home for a bit before diving into homework and activities in the evening over schlepping on the bus to a school farther away that is relatively same or similar to our backyard school all because we were erroneously of the belief that AAP were somehow more elevated at the MS level. It’s not, and were not buying into that noise. Publics are publics are publics. It’s not worth the commute particularly when that time on a bus could be spent in extracurriculars

[Anonymous]

Some parents and kids value academics more; others value more free time and time for extracurriculars more. To each their own.

[Anonymous]

Another Robo parent here… I think we fly under the radar because it is a fairly non descript community. Not ultra wealthy and not highly impoverished. No boundary issues. It is a big school but my only complaint is what a PP noted… for most traditional sports you can’t just join the team. Those kids have likely been playing since early elementary.

I was kind of iffy on IB (not knowing much about it) until extended family in another state selected an expensive private school for their freshman because of their IB program. My kid can get that kind of education for free in a public school? Ok, thanks!

A few of our pyramid schools have LLiV and we have an immersion school in pyramid so there is plenty to be had.

[Anonymous]

Another Robinson parent here. Regarding AAP, many, many Level IV kids stay local and go to Robinson. In my child’s cohort at a feeder school, not a single eligible child went to White Oaks. Even though the pyramid doesn’t have any AAP center, it certainly has an AAP peer group. I would not count out Robinson or label parents as less interested in academics. Take a quick look at real-estate prices in Burke Centre, and they will also speak to how much people want to live in the area …

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I think that there are some people who don't get that you can be happy with life and a school and not think that it is vitally important to get into an Ivy or a top 25 school. Not every family sees attending a well known university as being the most important thing in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another Robinson parent here. Regarding AAP, many, many Level IV kids stay local and go to Robinson. In my child’s cohort at a feeder school, not a single eligible child went to White Oaks. Even though the pyramid doesn’t have any AAP center, it certainly has an AAP peer group. I would not count out Robinson or label parents as less interested in academics. Take a quick look at real-estate prices in Burke Centre, and they will also speak to how much people want to live in the area …

Yes, exactly.
We are also in a feeder with LLIV and my child is just finishing up her 6th grade in the AAP class. Her entire class is going to Robinson (except for one child, she has a specific IEP that is better served at Lake Braddock, the parent told me).
Every parent I have spoken to has been happy with Robinson, many kids have done the Ib program, many have not. They were satisfied with the education in either case. My neighbor has two kids who went to a very rigorous engineering school (top 10) and said they found the first couple of years really really easy compared to other peers.
It isn’t a high pressure school, I don’t think (no first hand experience yet) and I thought that was important when we were house-hunting.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is a rising 7th at Robinson SS. We've heard good things about it from neighbors who seem happy. It does seem middle of the road compared to Woodson, McLean, Langley, etc. but honestly I feel that most public schools in the area are pretty much the same. We supplement with tutoring classes and extracurricular like other families in FFX co. On the upside, we love our neighborhood and the walkability to the ES and secondary school. We had thought of sending kid to Lake Braddock for continued AAP but it didn't seem worth it. We like walking to school so that won out.

Thank you PP. We are another AAP family sending our kid to Robinson for 7th. We also live like a five minute walk away. It just doesn't make sense to tack on a bus ride when there's a perfectly good school right here.

You are choosing being able to walk to school over receiving a more rigorous education with overall more capable peers? That is insane, and that is why Robinson underperforms its demographics - the community there has messed up values.

Messed up values? I’m not even a Robinson parent. I’m in Vienna and chose to stay at our local levelIV vs center school to avoid parents like you.

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Anonymous wrote:Some parents and kids value academics more; others value more free time and time for extracurriculars more. To each their own.

I think it’s funny that parents in ultra wealthy and competing areas think their kids are receiving a far superior education than a school like Robinson. Or that parents who can’t afford or don’t want to live in wealthier areas do not value academics. The privilege and cluelessness in DCUM never cease to amaze me.