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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not find general ed to be fine or FCPS fine in any way.  I am at one of the supposed best elementary schools.  The quality of the educational is very disappointing.  A lot of time moving room to room, very large classes, lots of time giving iready or DRA testing and during that time the single teacher is out of the room.  No snap words, no spelling correction at the young age or basic spelling later. AAP available is known to be better because at least those teachers find it unacceptable that 4th and 5th graders who have been deemed advanced cannot spell or do basic math quickly. It makes me super angry and sad because we bought here for the school and are now applying to private school.  Most of the teachers are less than 28.  Way too young without a balance of older more seasoned teachers.  As I tour the privates, I recall all the negativity public school advocates say  about private school teachers and qualifications and what I see are mature and career teachers who hold masters or phds In their fields.  I see private schools require spelling and handwriting in addition to all of the other subjects.  They don’t use the gimmicks of iPads to show that they are using tech.  They don’t move the kids room to room in endless stations so that no single teacher actually has an idea what the kids are capable of.  Neither of my kids abiltiities or weaknesses are known to their teachers because they are taught by assistance so or by each other or by iPad.  It is so incredibly disappointing.  Public school has a bigger mission than private but at my school, the FARMs and esol  are less than 2%.  The administration is not loaded down with other challenges.  It just thinks this is ok.  There is a feeling that if the kids can pass the state standards, that is enough.  If you take the time to review the state standards for each grade  and subject, you will agree that it is definitely essential to learn the items listed but you will also probably find that you actually expect much much more and they just don’t do it.[/quote]

I wonder if our kids go to the same school. My kids are at a well-regarded center school and I agree 100% with this post. Extremely disappointing.

I'll add that, perhaps because it is a center school, parents push really hard to get their kids into AAP and about 40-50% of the kids from base school get in.  My child who scored 96 percentile on CogAT and NNAT, had pullouts for math in first and second, plus above grade level reading did not get into AAP. I thought "fine, it's a selective program" and didn't appeal. But everyone anywhere near his level at our school is in AAP! He is NOT getting a good education in Gen Ed. There is something very wrong with this system.[/quote]

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