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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Persons A and B say on one thread that they have been really happy with FCPS

Persons C and D complain on another thread that FCPS does not have textbooks, teachers are wasting their valuable planning time finding and copying a mishmash of worksheets, kids are online much more than they should be.

*If* the facts that Persons C and D give are accurate, I agree with them. Paper learning is much superior to online learning. And teachers should not have to find their own materials. They should be given a standard set, which they are allowed to deviate from if they like. But why are Persons A and B so happy then? Did they luck out with a school that has textbooks and/or teachers who are experienced enough that they have essentially developed their own curriculum and the kids don’t have to be online all the time? If so, that is a big deviation across schools. [/quote]

Teacher and parent here.  Some kids will thrive in just about any environment.  You can give them the worst teacher in the worst school, and they will still thrive.  They are easy to teach and basically teach themselves.  Other kids only thrive if the circumstances are right.  A bad teacher can set them back significantly, and several bad years in a row can affect them permanently.  Add to that the fact that FCPS has little consistently from one school to another, and parents themselves react differently to different things, and you get a lot of different experiences and different opinions.

The reason I have a low opinion of FCPS is because of the inconsistency.  There are good schools and good teachers in FCPS, but there is no guarantee that you'll land there.  If you have a kid who is sensitive or anxious or shy or who doesn't fit the perfect easy-to-teach FCPS mold, and doesn't have an IEP to legally protect him or her, there is a fair chance you will have at least one year that is a total disaster and leaves you reeling from the complete indifference, incompetence, and outright lying and ass-covering at FCPS.  Likewise, if something bad happens to your kid at school, you'll probably find the same.  But those parents who have lucked out with incredibly resilient, optimistic, cheery and lucky kids will pat themselves on the back for their excellent parenting (never acknowledging the role of pure luck in this outcome) and claim that FCPS is just wonderful.  After all, if nothing bad has happened to them then it can't possibly have happened to anyone else, and if it did, then it's probably just bad parenting.

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