Middle School is way too easy

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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.

That was awhile ago. It's since been watered down.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a life, Tiger Mom.

My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day.

Oh please. My kid got 6 mos. of onsite MS due to Covid. We supplemented -yes, there is time if you make it a priority. DC is in 10th and doing all honors and an AP and is doing fine. All A's in 9th. Currently has one B at the end of Q1 in a class that is SUPPOSED to be hard.

MS curriculum prepared my kid for HS.

I'm glad your child is doing well but the data doesn't support this. Kids' grades have gone down in FCPS and now there is a shortage of kids going to college in the US and AP class attendance has also decreased. It has been well documented by parents that the elementary and middle school curriculum has slowly been watered down and some at the high school level as well.

Watered down or parents not pulling their weight. Depends on your perspective.

FWIW, I dont know a single kid in HS who is failing or not able to keep up.

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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?

One assignment is hardly a comparative analysis of FCPS v. a neighboring school district.

You sound like you need to homeschool or go private. See if you can do better.

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it's been an entire quarter. No homework. No hard assignments. No tests or very few of them. This is not made up. Do you even have a 7th grader?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it's been an entire quarter. No homework. No hard assignments. No tests or very few of them. This is not made up. Do you even have a 7th grader?

Same. I will add that DC has had 3 (or 4?) books assigned to be read in English class but then nothing written.

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You know this is just a waste of time posting here. People hate AAP on this FCPS forum and will defend FCPS even if they are teaching letter sounds in 7th or tell you to stop complaining and go take an AP course. Now I know where the parents are who helped give FCPS the curriculum it has. Will post in the AAP section. it's clear there is advice here other than go private, homeschool, or go to a tutoring center. Understood.

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Anonymous wrote:it's been an entire quarter. No homework. No hard assignments. No tests or very few of them. This is not made up. Do you even have a 7th grader?

Same. I will add that DC has had 3 (or 4?) books assigned to be read in English class but then nothing written.

My kid didn't even have that. Read one book so far and answered some 1-2 sentence questions.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a life, Tiger Mom.

My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day.

“Afternoons are too busy to make up for the lack of rigor during the day”, but you want an hour of homework?

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Anonymous wrote:Get a life, Tiger Mom.

My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day.

“Afternoons are too busy to make up for the lack of rigor during the day”, but you want an hour of homework?

Yes. My kid can do more during the school day and evening and I don't want to interrupt the later afternoon and early evening hours with some additional academic class when there are lots of other interesting activities and playdates that can happen then. They can more work during the school day and are wondering why school is so easy. I get it. It's the wrong group to ask the question to and all I will get is defensiveness and excuses. God forbid I'm actually accurate in my assumption that school is very easy in 7th grade FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:it's been an entire quarter. No homework. No hard assignments. No tests or very few of them. This is not made up. Do you even have a 7th grader?

Same. I will add that DC has had 3 (or 4?) books assigned to be read in English class but then nothing written.

My kid didn't even have that. Read one book so far and answered some 1-2 sentence questions.

Same. My kid is on book 2 though.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a life, Tiger Mom.

My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day.

“Afternoons are too busy to make up for the lack of rigor during the day”, but you want an hour of homework?

Yes. My kid can do more during the school day and evening and I don't want to interrupt the later afternoon and early evening hours with some additional academic class when there are lots of other interesting activities and playdates that can happen then. They can more work during the school day and are wondering why school is so easy. I get it. It's the wrong group to ask the question to and all I will get is defensiveness and excuses. God forbid I'm actually accurate in my assumption that school is very easy in 7th grade FCPS.

“Playdates” for a 7th grader? 😳

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Anonymous wrote:Get a life, Tiger Mom.

My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day.

“Afternoons are too busy to make up for the lack of rigor during the day”, but you want an hour of homework?

Yes. My kid can do more during the school day and evening and I don't want to interrupt the later afternoon and early evening hours with some additional academic class when there are lots of other interesting activities and playdates that can happen then. They can more work during the school day and are wondering why school is so easy. I get it. It's the wrong group to ask the question to and all I will get is defensiveness and excuses. God forbid I'm actually accurate in my assumption that school is very easy in 7th grade FCPS.

“Playdates” for a 7th grader? 😳

Yeah. Playdates. This is related to this discussion on education in FCPS how? Oh it's not. You just want to argue. Well glad you learned something in school. Seems to be pretty much the only skill learned these days.

[Anonymous]

AAP curriculum has been watered down to allow those students who do not belong to succeed. In true AAP, only 20% of those actually enrolled would qualify.

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Anonymous wrote:Get a life, Tiger Mom.

My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day.

“Afternoons are too busy to make up for the lack of rigor during the day”, but you want an hour of homework?

Why though? Why can't they just be kids before high school hits them? Don't they deserve free time?

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Anonymous wrote:Get a life, Tiger Mom.

My kid can handle a lot more especially in English and yet there is no work. Then I've seen kids struggle and drop out of classes in high school or college. Why wait so long? My child isn't in 2nd grade anymore. They can handle 1 hour of homework a day.

“Afternoons are too busy to make up for the lack of rigor during the day”, but you want an hour of homework?

Yes. My kid can do more during the school day and evening and I don't want to interrupt the later afternoon and early evening hours with some additional academic class when there are lots of other interesting activities and playdates that can happen then. They can more work during the school day and are wondering why school is so easy. I get it. It's the wrong group to ask the question to and all I will get is defensiveness and excuses. God forbid I'm actually accurate in my assumption that school is very easy in 7th grade FCPS.

“Playdates” for a 7th grader? 😳

If my kid wanted to play outside and be a kid in 7th grade I'd be thrilled