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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have kids in the Robinson Pyramid (One in HS, one in ES) and are generally pleased with their education. In particular, I appreciate the focus, support and encouragement our children have had on their writing across a range of classes.  Journals and daily writing at the elementary level and  extensive and diverse kinds of writing assignments in secondary.  I also appreciate the range of extracurricular and "specials" in the elementary schools (e.g.,  strings, STEAM, language immersion).

There have been a number of assignments that I see as quite sophisticated for middle school/early high school (e.g., a 7th grade assignment included written analysis of the 13-15th amendments of the constitution and how they represented issues during Reconstruction, in 9th grade an integrative analysis of multiple primary documents on a topic of student choice in history and a detailed analysis of the reasoning in a peer-reviewed scientific journal article).

I didn't mind on-line textbooks, and the kids in our pyramid have regular computer skills classes and often use google classroom/docs/slides/sheets etc in addition to Blackboard.  They also have access to excellent databases for research materials.  These are all markers of high quality education.  We were in two other highly-regarded school systems in our older child's younger years and FCPS seems stronger (though to be fair, I didn't get to experience middle school/high school in those systems).

Which elementary school has daily writing?

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