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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids started at another nearby school and then our boundary was changed to Mantua. So we've had experience with young kids at both a smallish FCPS elementary and at Mantua. Yes, it's huge and yes, you as a parent will feel that, especially at things like the carnival or back-to-school night. But amazingly the kids don't seem to notice how huge it is. My kids just look at me like I'm nuts when I talk about how big the school is, and they swear that they never feel lost in the crowd. The school does a lot to make it feel smaller and I do think it works for the most part.

My only real complaint is how they handle things like dismissal, where they basically wash their hands of any real accountability. At our old school, cars drove up and displayed the kids' names on the windshield for the teachers to call through walkie talkies, while the kids waited in the cafeteria for their names to be called. At Mantua it's a free-for-all of kids milling around everywhere while parents honk and wave and basically do anything they can to flag down their kids. There are teachers there directing traffic, but they play no role at all in making sure kids get into the right cars with the right people. The whole thing makes me uncomfortable every time I see it in action.[/quote]

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