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[quote=Anonymous]FCPS grad who went to GT centers 5th - 8th (thanks to a 3rd grade teacher who recommended my parents have me re-tested on the WISC after just missing the 3rd grade entry cut-off) and then on to TJ in the 'glory days' of the early 2000s. I think the FCPS of the mid/late 90s-early 2000s was simply more sink or swim, with little recourse available to those for whom it did not work. Do we ever hear from kids who fell through the cracks during that same time period, or just those who were socioeconomically lucky enough to succeed?

For K-4th, I attended a middle-of-the-road large, newish ES. There were contained "LD" classrooms, and everyone else was educated to the same standard. If you failed, you failed - not many chances for parents to intervene or request additional supports. There was a small handful of ESOL students (maybe 3 or 4 per grade?) who received in-school supports. I had several great teachers, and at least one truly awful one. We had socio-emotional learning lessons and FLE taught by the school counselors. I distinctly remember my 2nd grade teacher introducing multiplication as a concept...something my current AAP 3rd grader won't officially be taught until almost 2nd quarter of this year. I don't chalk this up as a failure of FCPS teachers or students, though - it's simply an example of how state and national curriculum standards have lowered over time.

Per a friend who is an FCPS high school teacher, the new Language Arts curriculum will result in his English department teaching slightly more than half as many books as they would have otherwise. And that's a nationally-benchmarked, standardized curriculum used by schools throughout the country.

FCPS is still a strong school system with lots of rich opportunities, but public education is being decimated from the top down politically by ideological zealots from both parties as well as opportunists from the technology industry (why oh why does Instagram keep showing me ads from that woman who started an AI-instruction-only school?!!!). We need to get politicians and businesses and lawyers out of education and hand the leadership reins back to educators.[/quote]

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