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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year our APS elementary school paid for IXL accounts for kids who they considered at risk for failing the math SOL so they could get extra practice.  Advanced and gifted kids didn't get an IXL account and were told to read quietly at their dest after finishing their work.  It was really unfair and made many of the advanced kids upset that they didn't have access to IXL to work on new material.

APS has really decided that it doesn't need to meet the needs of advanced and gifted students.  It's a remarkable turnaround from our experience pre-covid.[/quote]

Of course it doesn’t need to address advanced students.  Parents who are all in to academics already moved to FCPS; people move to Arlington for an easier life: short commutes, close amenities, walkable neighborhoods.  Schools are “good enough” in that no one is failing and there is little crime. The key measure to being “good enough” is passing SOL scores, that’s it.  In fact, families can focus on sports and vacations and recreation because of the no homework policy, and the ease of school lets the kids miss class with little impact, etc.

It’s Dickensian system: it invests in the struggling students and ESL learners, as they would affect the metrics; and the wealthy students who don’t need to go to challenging colleh to obtain a comfortable life can coast on thru before heading to Wake Forest and then joining the job their dad lines up.  [/quote]

I'm new to this thread. Telling people "just move to FCPS" doesn't work. I'm here. I vote, and I pay taxes. I have as much a right to a say in my child's education as anyone. And the IXL situation described above is totally unacceptable to me. APS needs to do better with advanced academics, and this thread shows I'm not alone in that opinion. [/quote]

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