Reply to Arlington magazine - Public school exodus cover

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "Arlington magazine - Public school exodus cover"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just can't get super worked up about this.    A bunch of things going on.  A huge factor is Arlington is getting wealthier and wealthier.   More people CAN afford private school than ever before.  Covid, some left and won't ever come back.   And yes, the equity dog whistle.   There is a lot of misrepresentation I see on this board about how there is no homework (not true), no one is allowed to fail any more (not true), everyone gets an A (not true), no rigorous content for more advanced students (not true), blah, blah.  High school is plenty rigorous in APS if your student is capable and on that track.  Intensified content is back in middle school.  And if you want your kid pulled out for gifted services in APS, well we never did that so move to Fairfax and enjoy all that comes with that.

Many kids are still going public in Arlington and my genuine reaction is I'm glad for anyone to leave.  More space for my kids and I hope it siphons off the more extreme wealth, which I don't want my kids around anyway.[/quote]

It's interesting to hear you say some of those common talking points aren't true. We've always been in catholic, so I just hear people talking and they definitely say there's no homework in elementary or middle school and you can retake tests (so hard to fail and easier to get As). Is that not true? Genuinely curious. [/quote]

Yes it is true but it's all very recent and a lot of people are not paying attention to the very new equity initiatives. Schools also have some variability on how they roll out but it will be district wide next year. There are no deadlines for assignments and tests (including final exams!) now can be retaken many times even by kids that did pretty well the first try. Teachers are very upset about these changes but the equity warriors were hand selected to lead the teacher committees involved in developing the new policies. The grade inflation is unreal and colleges no longer view APS as having the same rigor as other demographically similar schools in the Northeast. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics