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Reply to "Please SOUND OFF if you think FCPS is in decline!"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think all schools are in decline. [b]My kids were in school when the SOLs started.[/b] There was a sea change in the atmosphere. Teachers and principals became obsessed with ensuring that all the kids passed. Before that, there was a sense of fun that was lost. Accountability is important. This testing thing is not working,though. It only determines whether the kid can pass the test. It doesn't do anything to encourage intellectual curiosity. It doesn't allow for creativity in the classrooms. It has encouraged rigidity rather than allowing teachers to adapt to the learning styles of their students. Test scores are not everything. Great Schools scores are not everything. This is not unique to FCPS. The sad part is that if they went back to the way it was before and did not practice SOLs so much, the kids would probably do just as well or better. [/quote] What year was this?[/quote]
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