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. |
The governor of Kansas is a Democrat. The median income in, say, Mission Hills, KS is $250,000. |
Kansas is flyover country. |
Agree with this. While 22207 isn’t what OP describes, it’s probably not what she’s looking for. Go to South Arlington. |
I know I'm going off-topic, but why would parents judge you for not doing your kids' homework? Who would parents judge you for doing your kids' homework? And how would anyone besides the teacher even know or suspect? All teachers are different in the amount and reasonableness of the work they assign, all students are different in terms of what they can handle. There have been years where I do a significant part of the homework because the load was just too much, and years where I made them do 99% of it themselves because the load was reasonable for them. Especially in elementary, the social studies projects were ridiculously involved and tedious, but the math was too light, so I did most of the work on the social studies projects while giving them extra math. None of my kids' classmates' parents were privy to any of this, and if they somehow knew about it, I could not care less if they judged me for it. |
I know, right? That poster is an idiot with the flyover comments. Rich kids in rich suburbs and small university towns anywhere are running circles around middle class urban kids. People in a bubble have no idea what they're up against in elite college admissions. |