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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think if they could manage to teach to kids to spell and write AND deliver meals etc also, then I think everyone would be happier. The problem is that they can't seem to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.[/quote]

I don't think delivering meals has anything to do with the terrible writing instruction in FCPS.  Last year in 10th grade English my DC never got grades back until basically the last week or so of the quarter.  That meant no feedback at all to make progress.  I think it's common for kids to turn in assignments and get a grade.  No submitting drafts and getting feedback.  That doesn't seem like a good was of teaching kids how to write.  There is too much focus on purity in grading.  The system wants to grade kids on their "own" work, so teacher redlining doesn't seem to be used anymore.  That might work in other classes, but that's not a good blueprint for language arts.  [/quote]

DP, but I think PP was being facetious, while making the point that FCPS is more focused now on "equity" than academics.  It's a vicious cycle:  the quality of education might be better if the schools had more money and class sizes were smaller, but why should those who are more likely to vote support higher taxes and larger transfers to FCPS when they see very little of that money benefitting their own children and schools? [/quote]

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