Discovery elementary school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal is the key spokesperson in APS trying to convince the rest of the school district to get rid of grades at the middle and high school level. If you go to Discovery, be ready to stay average. They have a nonsense standards based grading that tells you nothing about how your child is doing. They have no competition, no homework, no gifted program, no battle of the books. I would go to Jamestown or Nottingham.

They do have a gifted program, and had Battle of the Books pre covid. Not sure where you’re getting your information.

DP and we like Discovery but while in the past there was a gifted program, there were apparently so many kids in it (??) that now the gifted program is now for EVERYONE. They all get it every other week as part of the Encore program (what DES call music, PE, library, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal is the key spokesperson in APS trying to convince the rest of the school district to get rid of grades at the middle and high school level. If you go to Discovery, be ready to stay average. They have a nonsense standards based grading that tells you nothing about how your child is doing. They have no competition, no homework, no gifted program, no battle of the books. I would go to Jamestown or Nottingham.

They do have a gifted program, and had Battle of the Books pre covid. Not sure where you’re getting your information.

DP and we like Discovery but while in the past there was a gifted program, there were apparently so many kids in it (??) that now the gifted program is now for EVERYONE. They all get it every other week as part of the Encore program (what DES call music, PE, library, etc.

Is that new this year? What exactly is this every other week programming?

As far as I know the gifted services requirements haven’t changed (identification, grouping, extension work, etc), although identification may have been upended by covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal is the key spokesperson in APS trying to convince the rest of the school district to get rid of grades at the middle and high school level. If you go to Discovery, be ready to stay average. They have a nonsense standards based grading that tells you nothing about how your child is doing. They have no competition, no homework, no gifted program, no battle of the books. I would go to Jamestown or Nottingham.

They do have a gifted program, and had Battle of the Books pre covid. Not sure where you’re getting your information.

DP and we like Discovery but while in the past there was a gifted program, there were apparently so many kids in it (??) that now the gifted program is now for EVERYONE. They all get it every other week as part of the Encore program (what DES call music, PE, library, etc.

You are misunderstanding something.

https://discovery.apsva.us/identification-process/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal is the key spokesperson in APS trying to convince the rest of the school district to get rid of grades at the middle and high school level. If you go to Discovery, be ready to stay average. They have a nonsense standards based grading that tells you nothing about how your child is doing. They have no competition, no homework, no gifted program, no battle of the books. I would go to Jamestown or Nottingham.

They do have a gifted program, and had Battle of the Books pre covid. Not sure where you’re getting your information.

DP and we like Discovery but while in the past there was a gifted program, there were apparently so many kids in it (??) that now the gifted program is now for EVERYONE. They all get it every other week as part of the Encore program (what DES call music, PE, library, etc.

Is that new this year? What exactly is this every other week programming?

As far as I know the gifted services requirements haven’t changed (identification, grouping, extension work, etc), although identification may have been upended by covid.

Yes, it is new this year. They call it "Innovation".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The principal is the key spokesperson in APS trying to convince the rest of the school district to get rid of grades at the middle and high school level. If you go to Discovery, be ready to stay average. They have a nonsense standards based grading that tells you nothing about how your child is doing. They have no competition, no homework, no gifted program, no battle of the books. I would go to Jamestown or Nottingham.

They do have a gifted program, and had Battle of the Books pre covid. Not sure where you’re getting your information.

DP and we like Discovery but while in the past there was a gifted program, there were apparently so many kids in it (??) that now the gifted program is now for EVERYONE. They all get it every other week as part of the Encore program (what DES call music, PE, library, etc.

Is that new this year? What exactly is this every other week programming?

As far as I know the gifted services requirements haven’t changed (identification, grouping, extension work, etc), although identification may have been upended by covid.

Yes, it is new this year. They call it "Innovation".

That’s not in place of gifted services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great building, fickle academics, cliquey families. Striver mentality and generally a sad unwelcoming place.

Totally disagree with the bolded. Sorry your experience wasn’t good; my 6th grader thrived at Discovery.

Hopefully your sixth grader thrived there before they were in the 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great building, fickle academics, cliquey families. Striver mentality and generally a sad unwelcoming place.

Totally disagree with the bolded. Sorry your experience wasn’t good; my 6th grader thrived at Discovery.

Hopefully your sixth grader thrived there before they were in the 6th grade.

Yes, she did. That’s how it works.

[Anonymous]

My middle-schooler calls Discovery "terrible." He loved the building, but said the teachers are "mean." Obviously, not all of them, but I agreed with him re 2 of the teachers. There is nothing special about Discovery except the building itself.