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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our elementary schools can't continue to be absolutely everything to everyone; FARMS to include backpack or weekend subsistence, clothing closets, food pantries, PTA subsidized school supplies, field trips, instrument provision, ESOL, translators for parent meetings and conferences or even a simple emergency call to home, holiday gift distribution...and the list goes on.

And before I get pummeled for daring to mention these issues, I speak from experience and have given my time and money to quietly support FCPS, but I have donor fatigue.

It's rough to send your average, non gifted, English speaking child with two college educated parents to FCPS kindergarten and I've done it four times.

Your solidly average student will quite frankly be lost in the shuffle. I'm convinced that the uptick in IEPs and parent referral to AAP and legions of twice exceptional students is actually a well played, strategic move by savvy and smart FCPS parents. So, if your kid doesn't have a "hook," forget it.  
Move your kid to the head of the class if there's an IEP, kid is 2E, ESL, AAP, homeless, pregnant, FARMs, legally emancipated, parent incarcerated or deported, no computer in the home. Help and programs and services will be on the way!

Plan now to teach the basics; handwriting, spelling, math facts, reading comprehension, grammar, pre-algebra skills, geography, to name a few.

Set aside money for private tutors now if you aren't up to the task or never took chemistry, or can't remember geometry.

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Also speaking from experience, I don’t think it’s that “rough” at all.  Our kids were still privileged and they went on to do quite well in college, even though they did not go to an AAP center.

Most of the beefs with FCPS come from upper middle class white parents upset that poor brown kids receive supplemental assistance and middle class Asian kids win more academic awards.  But the 1950s are not coming back. Preparing white kids for the real world in the 21st Century is a good thing.  Your kids can still be the center of your world, but the rest of the world does not revolve around them. [/quote]

Thank you for bringing some real insight. MCPS parents need to read this as well.[/quote]

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