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DP with example from last year (4th grade) I've shared in the past.  We are in western FCPS.  I had a parent teacher conference with my gen ed kid's teacher in late, late January.  Teacher admitted to me what my kid had told me: she had not met with his reading group since December.  She had them working independently because it takes so much time to get the other groups back on track especially after breaks and snow days.  She is a good, seasoned teacher stretched too thin.  Part of the issue is that Teachers are pulled into so many dang meetings (for IEPs, work sessions, etc.) that suck time away during the school day.  The issue isn't always bad teachers.  It is the system.

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Yikes!  I'm the PP who asked whether gen ed really was that bad at so many schools, and I agree that the system is failing at your school.  It certainly is possible to deliver high quality gen ed even to advanced learners, so I really would love to see FCPS clean up the failing gen ed programs.  People shouldn't need to try to cram their kids into AAP for their kids to receive an education.  The truly funny part is that the schools that I thought delivered an excellent gen ed program tended to have lower great schools rankings, and thus are less highly regarded than many other FCPS schools.  This is largely because the schools were less focused on getting the bottom kids to pass the SOLs and more focused on having everyone learn.

I wish FCPS used some sort of progress metric to evaluate the teachers and schools, kind of like how many systems use MAP scores.  If the top kids are being ignored and not showing a full year of growth, that's just as much of a problem as bottom kids who are below grade level.  Yeah, I know FCPS has iready, but they don't seem to know what to do with it.  [/quote]

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