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[quote=Anonymous]FCPS graduate, class of ‘89. For my third and fourth grades, we left Fairfax County for a rural midwestern town with very few resources and no amenities and a no-frills elementary school. My school did not have stairs (one long hallway), a library, a gymnasium and no specialists aside from a traveling school nurse. I learned more and was given more attention and help in those two short years than I ever received in the entirety of my FCPS education. My teacher would curate collections of books she thought we would like. We had singalongs in the cafeteria with our principal at the piano. We had school-wide spelling bees and talent shows. Cursive writing instruction began in second grade. We proudly decorated our classroom with our illustrated homonym poster examples! Math facts were memorized with flashcards! Today, I think I’ll send a nice check with a note of thanks to my alma mater. This is how education should be.[/quote]
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