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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]* No recess outside of Elementary School 
* English class, even for the advanced students, requires no reading of actual books 
* No sports until high school - and then 50 kids trying out for 15 spots. 
* The school board debates utterly useless garbage but manages to pass hiring their campaign managers on FCPS staff 
* They talk equity but do absolutely nothing to make anything actually equitable except hire crazy expensive token black women to "run DEI"
* They send out endless surveys about kids' mental health - which only makes kids question their mental health but solves nothing 
* Kids never, ever leave the building in Middle and High School. Sometimes for PE but half the year, they are sitting and learning about "health" 
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this is why this forum is useless. None of this is true. People just write ridiculous inflammatory things. Always some, but definitely a ton now and until November.

There is recess in middle school. Recess is not appropriate in high school.
There are sports in middle school. Cross country and track and they are looking at bringing in more. Traditionally outside groups have served the needs of the community- like parks and SYC and the like. 
Free 6 AP tests. Most areas in the country charge $90 per test. Free DE classes. Free SAT day. There are many times when I talk to relatives in other parts of the country and they are paying for things we do not pay for here. 
My kids were offered 2 surveys on mental health last year and we opted out of both. That’s not endless and my kids took zero. FYI teen suicide rates have gone down so maybe something is working.
Why would they leave? It’s school. No one is learning health- except in health for 1 quarter. They learn math and science and music and writing….etc.
This is a ridiculous rant based in zero facts. This is why threads get locked and why people stop coming to this site. Because it’s useless.
Unless they popped some corn. [/quote]

In California, the state I know best, there is recess in High School - 40 minutes of lunch with free time outside and a 20 minute break between 2nd and 3rd period. Why? Because it's not possible to go from Physics to Spanish to Calculus without time for a break and rather than just saying "we care about the social-emotional health of our students," the Cupertino School district actually does. Middle School recess in most of FCPS is a "brain break" sitting in a room. That's not recess, that is time on your phone. My kids have been offered mental health survey twice a year every year for 5 years. The parks and SYC have never provided the free sports that schools normally do. But it's true, FCPS cares only about high achievers - the ones that take 6 AP tests. The ones that make the school board look good. But for the majority, it's really a shitty district. [/quote]

Again- not true. And if there was recess if high school people would complain that kids weren’t working hard enough. Lovely that CA is better, but high school recess is extremely unusual.
There are no phones allowed in middle school bell to bell so you are making things up. I have middle school children and our school as well as my friend’s schools all go outside for recess. 
Free sports also sounds like lovely Cupertino land but it’s not the rest of the world. 
I hope you can get back to Cupertino. [/quote]

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