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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS has screwed the middle class

If you get into AAP it's fine

If you are lower class in Title 1 you are actually getting a decent education

The people that are getting screwed are the folks who miss the cut for AAP and are forced to go at a snails pace for all the Title 1 kids to get it[/quote]

Bingo!  And remember, the middle kids are meant to lift up everyone else. [/quote]

Yep. 
If your kid is on either extreme then rest assured FCPS takes good care of you. For the rest of us with average/normal kids, we are overlooked bc so many of the resources go to coddling the really smart kids or the struggling ones.[/quote]

From what I've seen, the smart kids are in the more crowded classes--30+ most of the time. Schools usually go out of their way to lower the student/teacher ratio in regular classes.

The classes that are a cruel joke for taxpayers are those with fewer than five kids with both a teacher and an IA, where the kids are presumably classified as LD or in need or remediation but in fact just refuse to work and are so disruptive that they have to be quarantined so that the bulk of the student body can learn something. That's nothing against kids with legitimate LD who need small classes and are trying. But there are far too many of the first kind and that's just not sustainable. 
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I understand that the classes for disruptive kids are expensive, but I’d rather pay for this than have those kids mainstreamed, especially when they are threatening other students or creating an unsafe learning environment (throwing chairs, etc). One of my kid’s had a classmate like that in Gen Ed one year and it was a nightmare for the entire class and, I assume, the teacher and admins. [/quote]

The dark truth is FCPS does a very good job dealing with these issues.  So much so that it actually attracts these folks and increases costs for everyone else.  Those are the facts.[/quote]

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