Your information is old: https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-writes-cursive-back-into-elementary-school-curriculum/ |
Not all center schools are like this. We're in the Burke/Springfield/Annandale/Fairfax area and our center isn't. |
haha.. I'm originally from CA. There are pressure cooker schools there, too. We actually live in the Richard Montgomery cluster now. One DC went to RMIB magnet, but they didn't feel any "pressure". Just a lot of work. My other DC is not in the IB magnet program but is taking AP classes. Having stated that, I do think this entire area is full of high achievers, and it does typically follow income and education level. Of course, there are pockets of areas that don't care that much about T50 college, but those areas are probably not in the UMC/wealthy areas. My spouse and I joke that we should've moved to the middle of KS or something to avoid such a large high achieving peer group. |
Would have had to stay away from the parts of Kansas that are richer and more high achieving than many DC suburbs then. Believe it or not the midwest isn't just flyover country. |
Is the Churchill Road Elementary center school like this? |
Ask in the FCPS or AAP forums (depending on whether you want information about the school as a whole or about just the full time AAP part). |
We lived in Arlington before Fairfax, and the competitiveness manifests itself in different ways. Lots of White women who are very competitive, but regularly put down "Tiger moms" - in other words, it's precisely because they are competitive by nature that they cannot stand the thought of their kids being out-performed by Asian kids. And don't get me started on the lacrosse dads in the Yorktown area living vicariously through their kids. If you want less competitive in Arlington, you want further south. |
Why? You see yourself in those traits? Let her know your neighborhood so she can avoid it. |
+1 people have no idea what it's like out there. LOL at this poster thinking Kansas is a bunch of farmers. Anywhere there is a university there is a big group of competitive high achiever professor kids at the very least, but it also includes all the doctor and lawyer kids in town too. Yes, even Kansas has doctors and lawyers. |
They still impact everyone. These parents burn out teachers. They can be demanding of teachers’ time and they can be quite rude. (Dealt with plenty as a hs teacher.) |
Oh please; Kansas? They might not all be dumb farmers but they are all MAGA, and therefore really stupid by definition. |
I am rich and not a helicopter parent. And I can say that normally I think this is griping to just categorize a group on DCUM but in this case it’s accurate. Rich people in the DMV are very lovely people, many very smart, and very good at being friends but their parenting is super competitive and annoying! It’s exhausting and puts pressure on those of us who are more chill and just want the kids to figure things out and be kids. |
It’s unclear why you think you have valid opinions of Fairfax AAP parents when you live in Arlington. |
So no black people in Kansas |
I've found parents in South Arlington to be pretty level headed in general. Definitely on the lower end of helicopter parenting and competitiveness. |