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I agree - FCPS distributes its resources very unevenly.  The best of everything goes to AAP, the most resources to special needs, and regular kids are left with nothing.  We have language immersion classes with 20 kids from the same country getting a private school education that isn't available to the rest of the county.  FCPS is not world class unless you are  one of the "special" kids that gets more than average.  If you're average, you sit in classes with 35 kids, do work on the lowest common denominator, [b]and probably have an average teacher at best.[/b][/quote]

Statements like this just go to the prejudice of "you're only as smart as the students you teach."  We've been very pleased and impressed with a lot of the teachers we've dealt with who go far beyond expectations to work with and help academically average and below average kids.  [/quote]

At Colin Powell the lower grade immersion classes have about 20 kids and some even less, while most other classes have 28-30 kids.  The are struggling to recruit and keep kids, but they still want the program because of the extra funding.  But it sucks because it makes regular class sizes so large.  Since last year they are mixing the korean immersion with the AAP program which is watering down both.[/quote]

This is why immersion is a problem. We shouldn't be having classes of 20 kids in immersion. There has to be a cutoff similar to the average class size without FARM students that the school has to meet in order to keep the immersion program.[/quote]

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