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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved out of McLean Fairfax County and into FCC about 6 years ago. Mostly because of the IB curriculum and BS with snow days. FCC took far fewer snow days.

In the past 6 years my child's best friend moved out of FCCPS and back into Falls Church Fairfax County. [b]The friend went from being in pull out classes in FCC for needing additional support to immediately labeled as gifted in FCPS[/b]. Nothing changed academically, it's just that the standards of the two school districts are very different.

We're back in school 5 days a week and have been for a while. Every step of the way during the pandemic our school district was able to make changes quicker. Mostly because its a much smaller school district. My child has had only 15-21 kids in classes. This year is the highest ever at 24. That's far below FCCPS classs sizes too (the exception being title I schools).

As for being rich and white...my child is about to go into middle school. At least 50% of the class is mixed race. They may identify as one race or the other I don't know. The Great Schools stats don't align with what I see racially. We live in a neighborhood with Federal employees, state department employees, military, teachers, retirees and others. There are some rich people in FCC but the are average folks too! There certainly aren't rich folks like the ones in Great Falls or North Arlington. Not sure why we get such a bad rap for it.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure the threshold for qualifying for gifted programs in FCC is higher than FC.  My very smart child was basically average in FCC.  It's been like that for many years.[/quote]

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