Help out the first-timers - best tips/advice for starting FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't really have enough time to eat lunch, so keep it simple for him.

Go to the open house next week, if possible. You and he will get to meet his teacher and see his classroom. You can drop off his school supplies there. Really organized teachers will have a copy of what their basic daily schedule will be like, and will ask you to jot down anything you think they need to know about your child.

Wow....if this is true the every teacher in my school must be disorganized. We had open house Thursday morning and did not get our mater and class schedule until Friday afternoon...

OP...please be careful listening to blanket assumptions like that.

[Anonymous]

Make sure you check his backpack regularly or check it with him so he gets into a routine. My son is going into third grade and still forgets to give stuff to me that needs to be signed.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Volunteer. Then you know what is going on at school

And you can start sucking up to the faculty and administrators to get your kid into AAP in the 3rd grade.[/quo

Ignorant statement!

[Anonymous]

You might find FCPS's endless self congratulations annoying, but there is not much you can do about it.