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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last week's horrific and violent rape in a MOCO HS got me wondering about FCPS's policies with regards to illegal Adults who register for public education services.  Do they go to An alternative HS or are they mainstreamed with regular students?  All the recent MS 13 gang activity makes me wonder who is mingling with our kids.   Anyone from FCPS who can share insight into the policies?   And in which High Schools are these unaccompanied minors and 18 yo's being placed?

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FCPS has two Adult High Schools for students 18-22, both of which include ESOL education. There's also a Transitional HS ESOL program for students age 18+ who test into grades 9-12 at various schools throughout the county. My guess is that at least the guy who is 18 would have been in one of those two programs and not in a regular classroom setting. The other one probably would have been in a regular school setting but in the ESOL program if he did not speak much English. [/quote]

He was probably 17 when he enrolled. Both of them had been here 6-7 months so probably enrolled at the beginning of the school year.

Being 18 in high school is not unusual, although obviously being 18 in 9th grade is. My rich white kids were both 18 when they graduated from high school, as were probably 3/4s of their classmates (given a 9/1 age cutoff for kindergarten entry and a June graduation date, the majority of the seniors should have had their 18th birthday by graduation).[/quote]

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