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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the education of my oldest who has graduated in high school and was in AAP since 3rd grade has been much better what I received in the 1990s. We did no tutoring and ended up at a T25 university in a demanding major and doing well.

The education of my younger child who is 8 years behind her sibling and not in AAP has been a joke.  No writing instruction in our McLean ES and her math class is only 20 mins a day and in a class of 30 kids. No homework is given.  The disrupted weeks of school w/o 5 days do not help.  She scored borderline for reading/math intervention on the Fall VGAs, so missed out on getting extra help at school.  After hearing from her principal that she was doing much better than her peers and that I should not worry, I was done.  We started supplementing with a private writing tutor and daily math practice at home using a textbook.  I also stopped volunteering at school entirely since that the school does not welcome the presence of parents. It is clear that academics especially for general education students is not a priority at our ES.

I’m hoping that the honors classes in MS will be step up, but not holding my breath.

My advice to parents who have students in FCPS is to build into your budget a tutoring line item of $300-$600 per month during the school year.  Just do it.  Think about it as an assessment on your property taxes or something, but don’t fail your child by thinking FCPS will take care of their education.  [/quote]

Or just send them to private.

We pay more and get a heck of a lot more out if it, including family time because we don't need tutoring. My kids score above the 95% across the board on national standardized tests.  They also do sports and clubs at school during the day.  In ES maybe they have 15 min of homework a night, middleschool is a bit more, maybe 30 min to 1hr.[/quote]

Most private kids have tutors too.  No familiy time and money saved.  [/quote]

Mine doesn’t. She’s doing really, really well.[/quote]

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