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[quote=Anonymous]My advice: buy a better home in a “low” ranked FCPS school, and send your kids to private school.

Even the “good” FCPS pyramids are sinking into a subpar lowest common denominator form of education based on a misguided “equity” concept. We paid the premium to live in a “great” pyramid and were absolutely shocked at the low quality of the schools; the lack of academic rigor; the lack of discipline (which by the middle school years resulted in an unsafe environment); and the constant drumbeat of “woke” political projects sucking up all the time and energy of the people who were supposed to me in charge of providing a good EDUCATION to our children.

I went to public school in a lower middle class town. I got an OK education and did well after high school. The difference is that back then (80s and 90s) schools tracked kids by academic level (so that all kids were challenged, no kids were bored, and no kids were overwhelmed). FCPS doesn’t want to do that (“racism”). FCPS has also moved away from tried and true teaching tools — like textbooks.

And equally important, even in the working class public school system went to as a kid, they did not tolerate disruption and misbehavior — they kept kids in line. FCPS had handicapped teachers by no supporting the enforcement of discipline in school, for fear of “disparate discipline” statistics (“racism” again). So your 12 year old kid ends up getting confronted with a weapon in the bathroom, while the school admin wrings its hands about the skin color of the troublemaker.

In short, while I have no doubt that my kids could thrive even in a low budget school where student discipline was enforced and the focus was on academics, that is not what we found in our “great” public school pyramid in FCPS.

In retrospect, if I knew then what I know now, I would have bought a less expensive home in a “worse” school pyramid ... because FCPS is just too subpar at this point.

My kids are thriving in private school, thankfully.

Good luck with your search. [/quote]

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