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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of two advanced students it’s terrifying to me that people actually think like OP. OP, are you by any chance a Fairfax County school board member? [/quote]

Every member of the current and incoming FCPS school board believes in closing the achievement gap from the top down. [/quote]

+1. It’s the prevailing thought around the education world. No one quite comes out and says it like this, but it’s the gist of things. Rather than say it like this, schools do things like putting everyone in honors and not even having Gen Ed classes (which is what our current MS did.) Also the endless retakes and “PBL.” (project based learning which is code for how to give kids an A on a big graded assignment who could never get an A or B on an actual test of the material.) The last class day or two at the end of every quarter is spent allowing kids who didn’t turn in a bunch of their work to do it really quickly and turn it in. The kids who already did all of the their work just sit there for several days at the end of each quarter. I’ve honestly started calling my kids in sick these days. The amount of reminder emails we get from the principal about checking our kids grades, looking for missing assignments and checking in with teachers before it’s “too late.” It’s ridiculous. The only care about the bottom. The middle and top kids are just noise. [/quote]

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