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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which electives did your child choose?  Perhaps they selected ones that are too easy for their skill level?  As far as the core classes, you should make sure that your child is reading at least 1 hour per day after school from a high level book of your or their choosing.  (Let me know if you would like suggestions for books.)  Also, I would recommend that they do extra practice through Khan Academy for math.  Perhaps 30 min per day?  Your child should also be filling their free time with several hours of sports practice or exercise every day.  Do they play an instrument?[/quote]

Why do I need to be scheduling Khan academy and buying books and setting reading times? Also what about writing? Do I have to plan that too? This is 7th grade. Now I need to be a teacher to my kid for 2 hours a day?[/quote]

I'm not sure what set your expectations so high. It's MIDDLE school, not grad school. And, parents have been supplementing their kids' education since forever. This is nothing new. If you don't like what you're getting, Governor Youngkin, put your kid in private or homeschool. Sounds like you will do a much better job, in your opinion, anyway.[/quote]

Because I can look to any neighboring school district and see it's more rigorous even in general ed and then also see that the private schools are more rigorous by a long shot even without AAP. What prompted this post in addition to the frustration over the past month of no homework and the end of the quarter was a 6th-grade video my friend just posted where the child read their several-page story to the class and I realized my child hadn't even written a page in school yet. Why should I supplement 2 hours with my child EVERY DAY when FCPS is saying that in their AAP level - their highest level - that they have nothing for my child to do after school on any day and no writing in school either? Why does it all fall on me when obviously in the neighboring county the kids are writing stories and presenting them in gen ed?[/quote]

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