So how many children are in your child's class in a Fairfax County school?

[Anonymous]

So our Mcleany Elitist poster is going to love this...I live in Mclean and rather than send our child to the local school we are moving to Loudoun County. Flame away!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if the chip-eaters are munching on organic chips lightly fried in olive oil and sold at Whole Foods or Wegmans??? THEN can they join your precious child's lunch table??? Geez.

Wegmans? How pedestrian...in McLean it is chips from baluccis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So our Mcleany Elitist poster is going to love this...I live in Mclean and rather than send our child to the local school we are moving to Loudoun County. Flame away!

what's out there, school-wise?

[Anonymous]

my understanding is loudoun county is great for the person that finds McLean too diverse

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who has a DD starting K in Sterling. It's half-day, but her daughter is only one leaving at lunch because entire rest of class is staying for ELL in afternoon.

[Anonymous]

I forgot sterling is in Loudoun....

[Anonymous]

some parts of sterling are really nice...cascades/lowes island/potomac falls.

[Anonymous]

If you think you might need a GT program, avoid Loudoun schools.

27 in K sounds so high. Can you imagine corraling 27 5 year olds all day long? What schools are these (if pp don't mind sharing).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you think you might need a GT program, avoid Loudoun schools.

27 in K sounds so high. Can you imagine corraling 27 5 year olds all day long? What schools are these (if pp don't mind sharing).

My daughter's class at Eagle View, in Fairfax, has 27. It doesn't bother me at all. Between the teacher and the assistant I think it'll be fine. I'll be finding out for sure soon enough.

[Anonymous]

13:55, I don't understand your comment about Loudoun's GT program. They have a pullout-based program beginning in 4th grade, right? It's not center-based like Fairfax but it does exist. Can you explain what you meant?

[Anonymous]

24 in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

1355 here-my SIL teaches in Loudoun but lives in FFX and her dc are in the fairfax GT program. We were looking at some neighborhoods around Algonkian regional park (Sterling area) but she strongly advised against Loudoun County schools since we know we will want GT services for one of our dc. She says very few teachers offer any differentiation for gifted young elem students. Once they reach the year where pull-out starts, most are underwhelmed. The pull-out activities are pedestrian (I think they bus students to meet up somewhere and do something but I'm not sure exactly how this works) and more of a hassle than anything else--and students must make up the work they miss from the regular class. The truly gifted students she has known have all moved out of LCPS or ended up doing private schools. She says Loudoun's growth means it has no extra money for gifted services--it must pay for so many new schools and new students, and it must pay for special ed services, but there is no mandate for gifted services so those kids gets the short end of the stick. (This is all according to SIL-I have no direct experience).

[Anonymous]

23 in 3rd

26 in 6th

[Anonymous]

21 in 4th

25 (I think) in 1st

[Anonymous]

27 in 3rd at a Reston school