Reply to Are the City of Alexandria public schools really that bad?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Are the City of Alexandria public schools really that bad?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another ACPS "booster" here, who also sent kids to private from K-8 and then TC. TC was a fantastic experience.  DD is now getting As at an Ivy.  TC prepared her well.[/quote]

It's interesting because you always pop up on these discussions yet from the stats TC releases there is maybe one or two kids in the past couple  years going to actual Ivy schools.

Also, talking with neighbors I found was just worthless. They all touted their local elementary as great ... until I actually put my child in the school then they had a different story and started saying what they didn't like, etc.

My child's teachers have told me two years in a row that they don't use any kind of text books or non fiction books for Science or Social Studies because most of the kids can't read them anyway and the teachers are correct.  [/quote]

I'm not a TC booster or even from Alexandria, but I always heard that over twenty TC graduates tend to go on to the ivies every year. Maybe things have changed the past coupe of years, but I thought the school had a fairly large cohort of motivated kids form those wealthy families on Seminary Ridge, many who have ivy connections. [/quote]

This April, the offer list included Yale (multiple), Stanford (multiple), Columbia, Cornell, Chicago, multiple top publics (not just the usual UVA and W&M -- also Michigan, UT, UC system, UNC-Chapel Hill), and the typical collection of SLACs.  All the better-known HBCs made offers (Howard, Tuskeegee, CAU-Morehouse and Spelman).  All the VA publics made offers.  I don't get the complaints.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics