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[quote=Anonymous]I've said this before, but: the people are generally very nice at Navy. Not many troubled kids. DS is in 4th in AAP, and in non-COVID times hangs out with a mixed AAP/non-AAP crowd at recess. AAP is very Asian (remind your child to take off his shoes when he goes to friends' houses, because Bob Smith's mom is Chinese.)  Administration is fairly responsive, most teachers are decent, lots of parents volunteer. Slots fill up extremely fast.

Unfortunately, as far as the curriculum goes, it is a hellscape. Navy tends to pilot all of Fairfax County's bad ideas, and FCPS has a *lot* of them. Mandatory one to one laptops start in third and much of math is spent playing video games. Zero learning happens in the PBL time sucks. Movies abound. Admin is over any stupid educational trend like white on rice. It's been catastrophic for my ADD child.

One major reason the Asians do so well here is that the parents spend time teaching/supplementing things that white people think the school will be taking care of. [/quote]

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