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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to Shrevewood.  It's a nice school with a good sense of community and a lot of great families.  I was displeased with the academics.  There is no creativity and way too much teaching to the test.  I thought the academic expectations were way too low. I'm sure others will disagree.[/quote]

How would one promote more creativity in teaching?  I'm really curious about new ideas.

I think most FCPS would teach to the test because everyone is so bent out of shape re SOL (see this thread) - unless you can guarantee that all the kids will do really well on the SOLs then you can't really afford to move much beyond teaching to the test as a teacher.  I guess that is one benefit of a high SES school - high SES automatically guarantees adequate SOLs so the teachers have more time to teach other things.

I'm also curious as to your feeling that academic expectations are low - my kid is doing great but in the back of my mind it seems to be too easy for him.  He's at the stage of learning to read, spell and maths and the only slight challenge would be the spelling component.  Two or three other kids in the class are in the same boat academically I would imagine. [/quote]

Sounds like your child hasn't gone through too many grades at Shrevewood yet.[/quote]

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