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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS is super disappointing. Sorry you didn’t realize it before you moved here. They are a marketing machine and have skated by on a old reputation. [/quote]

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FCPS *used* to be excellent.  That is true.  It no longer is.[/quote]

Please prove this. Show us that high schoolers are getting into far worse colleges or have lower graduation rates.

People have been making the same damn complaints since I started reading DCUM 11 years ago. And yet a couple generations of kids have come and gone through the system and idone incredibly well in lif
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PP here.  I'm one of those prior generations who went through FCPS when it actually was world-class.  1970's-80s and part of the 90s.  That was when there was a challenging curriculum, an emphasis on language arts (reading, writing, spelling, grammar), and a very small GT program for kids who were actually gifted.  I was excited to send my own kids to FCPS - until I realized that GT was no more.  Instead, we were stuck with "AAP" - an advanced program for the many above average kids in the system.  Additionally, there was no real grammar or spelling instruction.  Book reports had become video assignments.  Lots of wasted time, including a once-a-week hour of "language immersion" in which the teacher talked at the kids in a foreign language and actually expected them to learn that way.

In short, everything has been watered-down.  FCPS is a mere shadow of what it used to be.  And if you had also attended these schools yourself, you'd know this is true.[/quote]

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