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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]See subject. I’m not talking about individual teachers. I’m talking about whether the system is set up to care about students as humans as opposed to widgets.

Should FCPS only care about providing a teacher who teaches focuses solely on academics ignoring also other aspects (eg, behavior, personal issues) or should it care only about getting kids out the door in 12th grade regardless of grades?

Should it care about students welfare out side of school or their mental health?

If a parent sees a problem outside of school that may impact what happens inside of school, should they bother keeping school/FCPS informed?

If there are issues happening in school (eg, bullying) that may impact what happens at home, should FCPS/school inform the parents?
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Is there any institution of more than 200,000 people (students and staff) that has individual interests at heart? Anything that big typically has its own interests and self-preservation at heart. I would go as far to say they don't even have students' educational interests at heart past meeting the bare minimum that they need to do to continue to exist.

That's without judgement - it's just a fact of super large organizations and institutions. 
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I get that but students should still feel like they are being served. This is why service industry (which on some level is what a school is), sends out surveys asking whether your cashier or rep says hello, did they take time to address your need, etc.?

I think about the dad of the HHS student shot and killed at a soccer park after reporting the issue and expecting some feed back. Instead, the response was the SRO is too busy to care. Did we ever see a report about whether the matter was appropriately handled by the school? Without it, we don’t know.

School seems to be sucking the humanity out of kids. See a kid lying on the floor? “It is not your business, kids” or “what kid on the floor?” School will just tell kids to just step over the body and go on with their day as if nothing is happening. [/quote]

Should there be more? Of course. Is there any incentive or accountability to get us there? No.

FCPS has a functional monopoly so why would they need to serve their customers? Most people in the county can't afford the cost of the private schools that are here and/or can't or don't want to homeschool. And many people bought in Fairfax because of the schools and struggle mentally to pay more on top of that.

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