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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We recently moved from the area but our experience at an FCPS secondary school was very positive.  My son liked school, took challenging classes, was happy to go every day and I always got the impression that the teachers were supportive of their students.  The competition for spots in some of the extracurricular activities could be fierce.  But when you have lots of people vying for limited spots - some competition can be expected.

[b]I am really surprised to hear about this pressure cooker environment that some of you are talking about.  In my experience, the kids who are taking the challenging course loads are doing so because they want to take them, not because the teachers and administrators are pressuring them to do so.  I can only say that we never felt or experienced that[/b].[/quote]

Exactly.  Our kids go to one of the most competitive schools in FCPS, and the people putting pressure on the kids are either the kids themselves or their parents - or both.  The administration and teachers don't get involved in who chooses to take which class - that's a personal decision.  No one at the school is pressuring the kids to take higher level classes - they simply teach the classes.  In other words, if kids are overloading on AP's, it's their decision or their parents are telling them to do so.  It's ludicrous to blame this on the schools.[/quote]

Why do you think kids are making those decisions? Do you think college admissions policies have anything to do with it? How about government policies?

Asians, for instance, are the new Jews - they are being discriminated against re: college admissions and the schools openly admit it. Berkeley specifically said 'we would be all Asian otherwise'.

If the adults in the room stopped worrying about their own prestige and simply focused on their jobs, i.e. educating kids, all this nonsense would stop.[/quote]

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