Middle School is way too easy
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Anonymous
| Kid is in AAP and the curriculum is barely general ed level. I have friends in other districts, not in honors, having more work and more rigor day to day. No homework all year long beyond maybe 30 minutes a week and we are at the end of the first quarter. This is my second kid going through the system and I thought it was weak before but now it's so much weaker and my first kid already wasn't prepared for high school. Should I say anything? As a veteran parent, I feel like all I do is put a mark on myself for speaking up. So many parents I know have left for private because of issues like this though. Probably makes FCPS happy to have taxpayers not use their schools. Afternoons are too busy to make up for the lack of rigor during the day. Any recommendations that have worked? |
Anonymous
| Sounds like you should consider sending your kid to private school. |
Anonymous
| Your children sound brilliant - Congratulations. |
Anonymous
| School districts get funding based on each pupil enrolled, so no, they aren't trying to scare you away. |
Anonymous
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I went to the Back-to-school presentation for middle school and they said that they don't give homework because kids are so busy after school that they don't want to overburden them. I scratched my head at that. Then I signed up DC for more after school stuff.
I have a 7th grader so we don't have a lot of experience with middle school but so far it's not too impressive - and yes, it seems way too easy. I'm not sure how to express this in an effective way though, or who to communicate with. The particular teachers? The principal? My school board member? |
Anonymous
| Get a life, Tiger Mom. |
Anonymous
Most of the privates are much easier than FCPS AAP. We moved one from private back to FCPS and the curriculum in FCPS was far more challenging. Have heard the same from several others. |
Anonymous
10:43 here. When did this happen? Recently or years ago, and for 7th or 8th grade? I'm willing to see if things improve after the first quarter - maybe, like grade school, the first quarter is just a placeholder while everyone remembers how to do school after the summer and real learning starts in the second quarter. Is that the case? |
Anonymous
| Move to Carson and you will be very happy. |
Anonymous
| My experience (at Robinson) is that middle schoolers barely have any “home” -work because they have Advisory every day. If your child doesn’t need to meet with a teacher during this time it’s basically a daily study hall. |
Anonymous
My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day. |
Anonymous
My neighborhood is more expensive than Carson's boundary. No reason it can't be at the same level. We have very few low-SES kids. |
Anonymous
| Another poster who agrees it's way too easy. |
Anonymous
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This might be school and teacher dependent. DD is busy and engaged in MS for the most part. Math and English especially keep her on her toes. Science is an absolute travesty.
She rarely has homework because there is enough time built into her school day so she can finish assignments, and there is still enough time left over that she's unofficially tutoring a couple of friends. There are still so many quizzes and tests, she has to come home and do that work. |
Anonymous
Not at all. All the kids nearby compare schoolwork on the sports teams and other activities and the private schools are just much much harder. My child hasn't read more than 10 pages in total in AAP English during the school day and has had only three writing assignments of a paragraph long all quarter in English. This is not AAP work or even honors. It's all just general ed now. |