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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just can't get super worked up about this.    A bunch of things going on.  A huge factor is Arlington is getting wealthier and wealthier.   More people CAN afford private school than ever before.  Covid, some left and won't ever come back.   And yes, the equity dog whistle.   [google]There is a lot of misrepresentation I see on this board about how there is no homework (not true), no one is allowed to fail any more (not true), everyone gets an A (not true), no rigorous content for more advanced students (not true), blah, blah.  High school is plenty rigorous in APS if your student is capable and on that track.  Intensified content is back in middle school.  And if you want your kid pulled out for gifted services in APS, well we never did that so move to Fairfax and enjoy all that comes with that.[b]

Many kids are still going public in Arlington and my genuine reaction is I'm glad for anyone to leave.  More space for my kids and I hope it siphons off the more extreme wealth, which I don't want my kids around anyway.[/quote]

Exactly. People misrepresenting probably don’t even have kids in APS.

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Did you see the link I posted regarding writing at APS. We need to stop denying that there are issues. Most grads are unprepared for college. This is a country wide issue and Arlington is not immune.[/quote]

I’m a DP and I read it.  Thank you for posting this.  I am grateful to hear these perspectives.  It is beyond unacceptable that students are reporting [b]they were never assigned a research paper during their entire time at APS[/b].  To this day I can remember some of the research papers I was assigned in my (excellent) public high school.  My first research paper was assigned in 5th grade.  We had a unit on using the library for research and we all had to write a 2 page paper.  I’m not sure if we should expect research papers from 5th graders, but by high school it should be standard for all English and History classes.

How in the world is this not happening?  Is the student wrong?  [/quote]

That is BS. Kids do have research papers starting in ES. [/quote]

APS kids do research *powerpoint presentations* in ES. They don't write research papers. If you want your kid to learn actual writing, you need to supplement during the summer. This doesn't change in middle school. Our oldest just finished Swanson, and he never wrote a research paper while he was there. His projects were mostly powerpoint presentations and posterboards. APS does not teach writing the way that most of us learned it. They deserve all the criticism they are getting right now about the writing instruction.

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