Feel like my well behaved 1st grader is basically ignored in FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:Do you like your school and your neighborhood otherwise?

Arlington classes are not much smaller unless the school is title I. my daughter's first-grade class has 25 kids, which is about the norm. And you'd pay a lot more for a comparable house in Arlington.

Does HE feel he's ignored? Maybe you could just be glad your kid is normal and not weird or badly behaved or so smart he'll be socially isolated.

My kid is being tested for gifted, but i don't expect her to be treated any differently than the other 24 kids in her class. I expect she'll get about 1/25th of the teacher's time, like I did. At some point, he will probably show some sort of special talent or cool trait and maybe he'll stand out more. 7 is kind of a blah time; most kids will shine more as they get older and develop more interests and spend more time pursuing them.

We like our home and neighbors very much. We bought a beautiful home in a cul de sac for about 800k 5 years ago when we had an infant and toddler. Smaller house in Arlington will probably cost us 1.5 million, which we can afford but it would wipe out our savings.

Honestly, the schools in Arlington are no better - the class sizes are just as large and the average student doesn't get as much attention as the poor or gifted students.