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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What misinfo am I spreading? Our north alrington school does not have homework and thats a fact. And I know that many of the elementary schools do not require homework. I also know Sawnson middle school (where I have a child) does not require much homework.

I'm not sure how that is misinformation? Please let me know which schools do require homework, especially at the elementary level. I'd love to know!!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't have any homework in our elementary school in north arlington. And very little in middle.

So you are incorrect!! Most elementarys in arlington do not.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow such vitriol. I was just curious. We are a young family and about half our block goes to private — if we were doing it again, we would have moved to Fairfax and saved the tuition money.

Combined with less frequent commutes, I wonder if Arlington prices will actually decline. [/quote]

You are so, so clueless.  [/quote]

Seriously. Starting with, less reject the premise that the schools lack rigor. What an absurd, lazy trope unsupported by any evidence.[/quote]

They eliminated gifted, zero homework policy, unlimited test retakes, and standards based grading. Rigor ELIMINATED. [/quote]

Do you actually have a kid in APS? Clearly not.

Because they haven’t eliminated gifts and kids still get homework. And there are not unlimited test retakes.

Stop spreading misinformation. 
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Some ES schools eliminating homework does not mean that APS eliminated homework. Stop spreading misinformation. 
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You didn't say "my kids' ES". We were talking about APS and spoke as if there wasn't homework anywhere.

Also you said they:
eliminated gifts - untrue
allow unlimited test retakes - untrue 
are doing SBG - untrue 
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Okay lets pivot a bit:

rather than eliminate, we can say undermine and watered down?

reduced hours allowed and scope of allowed homework: https://www.arlingtonparentsforeducation.org/ape-reports/homework-policy
gifted rebranded to aac and no longer taughter by trained GT teacher but instead handled by classroom teacher and must be made available to all members of the class and the associated overhead that entails
unlimited retakes -- set a floor of 80% as the grade that student can ever get on a test (because they can retake until they get 80%)
SBG is happening at all elemtaries and is going to be expanded to middle school and eventually non-AP high school courses

without questions these are big changes that are unpopular with academically focused parents.[/quote]

So go scream at your girl Miranda about it. You guys in APE have shown us all that you know how to yell at board members. [/quote]

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