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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 24 The oddness is the poster who repearedly said that tenured teachers are causing all the undo pressure on Fairfax County high school students.

That is the most laughable thing I have heard in a long time.[/quote]
NP. No need to be extreme, so let's be accurate. Tenured teachers can cause unique chalenges, aka problems.[/quote]

I do think it's stressful when there are so many standardized tests but such a lack of consistency and accountability where teachers are concerned.  Some of the top schools in FCPS love to take credit for their kids' SAT scores and college admissions, but barely lift a finger when a teacher treats students with hostility and disdain.  If you are at a school where most students succeed academically, it is very easy for the school to blow you off when your child struggles and tell you how well other students do on AP or IB exams, etc, which will only make your child feel worse.

From what I can tell, Langley may have raised this to an art form, and of course the parents and students who thrive in such an environment will defend it at length, but it can be very rough.  For example, the programs for the fall sports banquets at Langley for many years also identified if the players also had at least 3.5 GPAs, so no opportunity was lost to remind everyone who was and was not doing better academically.  [/quote]

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