Middle School is way too easy

[Anonymous]

Enroll your DC in a full-fledged supplemental tutoring program at a center like C2. C2 would be thrilled to provide intensive instruction and you can think of it as college prep!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enroll your DC in a full-fledged supplemental tutoring program at a center like C2. C2 would be thrilled to provide intensive instruction and you can think of it as college prep!

By this post, you are saying that you think the amount of rigor in 7th grade, whether general education, honors, or AAP, is all appropriate.

You can go right out and say that rather than posting silly stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Enroll your DC in a full-fledged supplemental tutoring program at a center like C2. C2 would be thrilled to provide intensive instruction and you can think of it as college prep!

When they give me a full scholarship and my kid gets credit for the classes and a bus comes to pick them up from the house sure. Why is C2 able to do this but not FCPS? Are you saying FCPS used to be capable but now isn't and they should stop taking my tax dollars and stop having these classes in name only? My friend's kid btw was in a much lower-performing school district. Stop giving FCPS excuses for their poor curriculum. MCPS parents got on MCPS for their homegrown curriculum that didn't produce the results. FCPS results are not good of late. They need to step up their game.

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Anonymous wrote:Which electives did your child choose? Perhaps they selected ones that are too easy for their skill level? As far as the core classes, you should make sure that your child is reading at least 1 hour per day after school from a high level book of your or their choosing. (Let me know if you would like suggestions for books.) Also, I would recommend that they do extra practice through Khan Academy for math. Perhaps 30 min per day? Your child should also be filling their free time with several hours of sports practice or exercise every day. Do they play an instrument?

Why do I need to be scheduling Khan academy and buying books and setting reading times? Also what about writing? Do I have to plan that too? This is 7th grade. Now I need to be a teacher to my kid for 2 hours a day?

PP here. No, you do not have to plan or teach anything. Can your kid not go to their school or community library and check out high level books of interest? Can they not find Khan Academy on the Internet? If not, perhaps you should be teaching your child some of these life skills.

As far as writing, certainly you can encourage your child to write more. I suggest buying them a journal or diary to help them get an opportunity to write more.

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Anonymous wrote:Which electives did your child choose? Perhaps they selected ones that are too easy for their skill level? As far as the core classes, you should make sure that your child is reading at least 1 hour per day after school from a high level book of your or their choosing. (Let me know if you would like suggestions for books.) Also, I would recommend that they do extra practice through Khan Academy for math. Perhaps 30 min per day? Your child should also be filling their free time with several hours of sports practice or exercise every day. Do they play an instrument?

Why do I need to be scheduling Khan academy and buying books and setting reading times? Also what about writing? Do I have to plan that too? This is 7th grade. Now I need to be a teacher to my kid for 2 hours a day?

PP here. No, you do not have to plan or teach anything. Can your kid not go to their school or community library and check out high level books of interest? Can they not find Khan Academy on the Internet? If not, perhaps you should be teaching your child some of these life skills.

As far as writing, certainly you can encourage your child to write more. I suggest buying them a journal or diary to help them get an opportunity to write more.

Why go to school? What is actually happening at school that is worthwhile? Do I get the taxpayer dollars too? These are not honors or AAP classes. It's false advertising.

[Anonymous]

Why can't FCPS step up? Why do they get off saying they have an advanced curriculum? The emperor has no clothes.

[Anonymous]

FCPS needs to step it up It's frightening how watered down everything is.

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Anonymous wrote:Which electives did your child choose? Perhaps they selected ones that are too easy for their skill level? As far as the core classes, you should make sure that your child is reading at least 1 hour per day after school from a high level book of your or their choosing. (Let me know if you would like suggestions for books.) Also, I would recommend that they do extra practice through Khan Academy for math. Perhaps 30 min per day? Your child should also be filling their free time with several hours of sports practice or exercise every day. Do they play an instrument?

Why do I need to be scheduling Khan academy and buying books and setting reading times? Also what about writing? Do I have to plan that too? This is 7th grade. Now I need to be a teacher to my kid for 2 hours a day?

I'm not sure what set your expectations so high. It's MIDDLE school, not grad school. And, parents have been supplementing their kids' education since forever. This is nothing new. If you don't like what you're getting, Governor Youngkin, put your kid in private or homeschool. Sounds like you will do a much better job, in your opinion, anyway.

Because I can look to any neighboring school district and see it's more rigorous even in general ed and then also see that the private schools are more rigorous by a long shot even without AAP. What prompted this post in addition to the frustration over the past month of no homework and the end of the quarter was a 6th-grade video my friend just posted where the child read their several-page story to the class and I realized my child hadn't even written a page in school yet. Why should I supplement 2 hours with my child EVERY DAY when FCPS is saying that in their AAP level - their highest level - that they have nothing for my child to do after school on any day and no writing in school either? Why does it all fall on me when obviously in the neighboring county the kids are writing stories and presenting them in gen ed?

Oh for the love of god, just move already. Jeez. If it's so much better, why are you still here?

[Anonymous]

Interesting. I teach at a MS AAP Center. The feedback we receive from parents is that they find freshman year less rigorous than 8th AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move to Carson and you will be very happy.

My child is at Carson AAP and we find it really easy so far. Hardly any work to do at home. No real writing yet. Straight As.

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Anonymous wrote:Which electives did your child choose? Perhaps they selected ones that are too easy for their skill level? As far as the core classes, you should make sure that your child is reading at least 1 hour per day after school from a high level book of your or their choosing. (Let me know if you would like suggestions for books.) Also, I would recommend that they do extra practice through Khan Academy for math. Perhaps 30 min per day? Your child should also be filling their free time with several hours of sports practice or exercise every day. Do they play an instrument?

Why do I need to be scheduling Khan academy and buying books and setting reading times? Also what about writing? Do I have to plan that too? This is 7th grade. Now I need to be a teacher to my kid for 2 hours a day?

I'm not sure what set your expectations so high. It's MIDDLE school, not grad school. And, parents have been supplementing their kids' education since forever. This is nothing new. If you don't like what you're getting, Governor Youngkin, put your kid in private or homeschool. Sounds like you will do a much better job, in your opinion, anyway.

Because I can look to any neighboring school district and see it's more rigorous even in general ed and then also see that the private schools are more rigorous by a long shot even without AAP. What prompted this post in addition to the frustration over the past month of no homework and the end of the quarter was a 6th-grade video my friend just posted where the child read their several-page story to the class and I realized my child hadn't even written a page in school yet. Why should I supplement 2 hours with my child EVERY DAY when FCPS is saying that in their AAP level - their highest level - that they have nothing for my child to do after school on any day and no writing in school either? Why does it all fall on me when obviously in the neighboring county the kids are writing stories and presenting them in gen ed?

Oh for the love of god, just move already. Jeez. If it's so much better, why are you still here?

Because this is my home and I've been here for decades. Why do I need to subscribe to a program that is not living up to what it says it is?

[Anonymous]

It's also not healthy for kids to think they are doing an advanced curriculum only to find out it's practically remedial and they aren't remotely prepared for college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Enroll your DC in a full-fledged supplemental tutoring program at a center like C2. C2 would be thrilled to provide intensive instruction and you can think of it as college prep!

By this post, you are saying that you think the amount of rigor in 7th grade, whether general education, honors, or AAP, is all appropriate.

You can go right out and say that rather than posting silly stuff.

PP and my comment was direct and sincere.

Backstory is that I’m a fcps alum, married to a FCPS grad and have been fcps parents since 2006.

Each of our DC have needed progressively more expensive and intensive tutoring. DH served as DC’s math tutor from fifth grade
until junior year when we had to go with both a paid, private tutor and a center for SAT prep.

One failed SOLs first go round in 3rd and we got a call from the AP urging DC to attend a remedial prep course so DC re test ASAP. Declined this “service.”
Another DC was placed into a SOL math prep to help bolster scores.
Fine, but this was only to boost scores and post test there was never any offer to help.

Our DC begin SAT prep right ahead of junior year.

FCPS has so many dirty little secrets and the fact that a huge percentage of DC students get outside help is carefully concealed by parents, by administrators and teachers is just one secret.

See also: AAP and IEP gamesmanship.

[Anonymous]

What middle school, OP? My kids went through AAP at Rocky Run, to advanced classes at Chantilly HS, to T10 universities. We all found the curriculum to be appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What middle school, OP? My kids went through AAP at Rocky Run, to advanced classes at Chantilly HS, to T10 universities. We all found the curriculum to be appropriate.

Your experience is sadly no longer representative.