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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Google benefits of block scheduling.  Teachers are NOT using it as a study hall.[/quote]

Haha I can Google benefits of Lucy Caulkins too, look how that turned out. [/quote]

You guys are idiots. Seriously. Block scheduling has been around since the 90s. We had it in my high school. Grow up. [/quote]

Interesting, and yet people have been saying local school systems have been in decline since the 90s…

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No. “They” haven’t been saying that. 
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Yeah, they've been saying it since the 2010's.  Especially regarding APS.[/quote]

APS isn’t in decline. You’re all so sheltered that you have no idea what a bad school system actually looks like. None of the ones in this entire metro area are bad. Not even close. The bulk of complaints about schools here, whether it’s APS, FCPS, MCPS, are just because too many people are overstretched on their house and angry they paid $900k for a shack inside the beltway and that pinch makes them feel like they’re entitled to something they were never going to get - a private school experience in a public school system.

The schools are good. You’re angry at what you spent on a house to get into those schools. But it doesn’t make them bad schools. Your issue isn’t block scheduling, it’s your mortgage  [/quote]

They didn't say they're "bad."  They said they're "in decline."  A good school system can be in decline and still be better relative to other school districts.  It means they aren't as good as they used to be.  And I don't care about ratings relative to NYC Public Schools or Chicago or even DC.  I care about the school system my kids are in; and if it can be better, then people should push it to be better and call it out when they believe it is heading in the wrong direction. Why should we just accept whatever we have as long as it's still better than elsewhere?

Also, my buying a house has nothing to do with my dissatisfaction with certain things about APS.  Not everyone "spent on a house to get into those schools."  Maybe those who have more money and spent more money on their homes have a tendency to be more critical of APS; but don't you think it might be that they have higher expectations based on APS' reputation as well as their own personal experiences with APS, perhaps in comparison to their own educational experiences - as opposed to those of the poorer people in the community coming from far inferior education systems and therefore finding anything APS offers to be superior to where they came from?  THOSE are the people who "spent on a house" to get their kids into a good school system.

There is nothing wrong with holding a school system to higher standards.[/quote]

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