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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep in mind that in many states, "unschooling" is perfectly legal.  There is no education beyond what children learn simply by daily activities and being curious.

I homeschooled for a year in MOCO because I hated MOCO County Schools.  I pulled my youngest out after three months and finished the year with him at home.  Their requirements are very simple to meet.  All they require is a yearly review.  It took less than 10 minutes.  The caseworker just looked at a few work samples.  When we found a home in Fairfax County, I put my youngest back in public school.

Many states have no accountability requirements beyond registering the child as a homeschool student. [/quote]

What was it that you disliked so much about Moco schools?  How is fairfax better in your mind?  I know people who don't like their kids in public school for a variety of reasons, but I am surprised to hear such a disparate opinion about what I would have thought are broadly similar school systems.[/quote]

DP. But FCPS and MCPS have a very different focus right now. MCPS parents seem very frustrated with the "narrow the achievement gap" mentality in MCPS. If your kid isn't behind, they aren't getting attention. Gifted education is 2 years, and highly rationed (set slots). FCPS is swinging in the dead opposite direction.  A large percentage of kids head in to the AAP program, and go to FT gifted Centers for 6 year (3rd-8th) and get excellent and highly accelerated learning that ultimately feeds to TJHSST.  But the gap between AAP Centers and High SES Gen Ed Centers and high SES Gen Ed Centers and low SES Gen Feds Centers can be large.

There are other differences too like MCPS does immersion well and FCPS does not. And FCPS has a failing cluster of IB schools in the Easyrn part of the county that no can defend, but they refuse to convert to IB.  But in ES/MS, if you have a bright but not brilliant kid, you want a guarantee of 6 years of AAP Center placement and not a set number of GT Center slots that you can only get  for 2 years. [/quote]

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