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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an experience with Oakton ES. We moved to the area from the private school and decided to put the child to Oakton based on the good reviews. It was awful. They tested her early in fall and transferred to AAP classes around December. We ended up transferring to private school. Academics are very very poor. No books. Our experience with teacher was awful -- basically if you are a strong well behaved kid, you will be placed in the back of the class and forgotten for the rest of the year. [/quote]

My kid was now MS kid was in the LLIV class at Oakton, which was capped— at 35 or 36 kids. There was supposed to be a dedicated aide. But there was not. The kids were pretty well behaved.  The teacher was good and tried. But it was a zoo.    They would not split the class.  Because the prior year they had and had  2 AAP classes and 2 not.  And there was nearly a riot over which 16 or so so kids would fill out the AAP classes. And parents very unhappy, because the 2 GE classes were left to also carry all the SN kids and ESL kids— one class with ESL push ins, one with SN pushins.

My kid also lost a teacher the first quarter of school in K,2,3 and 4 to pregnancy. And some years they did  better than others. In 3rd the teacher said she would come back.  Long term sub. She quit the day she was due back from maternity leave. The LT sub had other commitments. 35 kids and my kid had 4 teachers on a long term (more than a month basis).  Not all the schools fault, of course. Pregnant teachers happen. But 4 out of 5 years?  Seems like, at a minimum, the school should make sure the same kids don’t get hit  4 out of 5 years.

They also had a couple of terrible teachers, that everyone knew were terrible, and why, but that they were unable or unwilling to anything about.

I know of girls who were viciously bullied in the upper grades.

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