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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One data point:

My child in Honors 9th grade English at Langley is reading an abridged version of the Odyssey.  It’s about 1/3 the length of the original book and the language is simplified.

I read the full book when I was in 9th grade in FCPS and her older cousin also read the full book about 10 years ago in another FCPS high school.  [/quote]

Then have your child read the full book at home. Fairfax County has libraries.  [/quote]

Don’t count on the schools to do as well by your children as they did by you. It’s all about supplementation, homeschooling and private school these days.[/quote]

Colleague with kids in MCPS says the same general trends discussed here about FCPS also are true there.  His oldest was MCPS all the way.  Next bailed at MS for private, youngest was moved to private after 2nd grade.  They watched the decline in their own kids.  Neighbors here are reporting the same for FCPS.
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Only the small township based school districts of the northeast and other parts of the U.S. appear to be largely immune from such trends. Of course, the problem there is funding problems for the poorer towns with more diverse housing types. [/quote]

It's amazing what happens when you draw lines to exclude poor kids.[/quote]

So too is what happens when you ignore borders and allow a flood of poorly educated.[/quote]

My legal immigrant US citizen wife and myself are just waiting until the spring housing market cycle to sell and relocate our family.  Job market and public schools brought us here, but with the direction FCPS is heading it no longer sits on the positive column of any decision making criteria.  Might as well transfer my kids into the best HS pyramid in another county in VA where there's no influx of undocumented, poorly educated immigrants.[/quote]

If you think any other county in VA is producing better results than FCPS than by all means, have at it.

You're statement is racist at best and translates to "I don't want my child to be in the vicinity of poor brown children so I shall seek out other whiter areas of the state to reside."[/quote]

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