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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PP who wrote the diatribe about how FCPS was a utopia when she attended, but is now terrible due to the late-start elementary schools, forgot to mention that the ES’s had late starts back then, too. [/quote]
The difference is, back then when FCPS was actually decent, we were challenged...time at school wasn't a waste so we didn't need to get supplemental education from our parents or a tutor after school. We were free to go out and play instead.[/quote]

I would put solid money on the fact that while you were out playing other kids were supplementing. I know that the schools I attended in the 1980's were considered excellent and my parents supplemented and provided tutors. My older brothers received supplementation because the school was not able to meet their needs, they were ahead and there was not a solid program for gifted kids. My younger brother and I had tutoring because we had learning issues and the school resources did not meet all of our needs.

I know that this was an issue in FCPS because we were at Mosby Woods for 3 years. Then we moved to a different state and ended up with the same arrangement. We moved again when I was in high school, same deal. And my younger brother was moved into private schools because the excellent public school was not able to meet his needs due to his learning issues. The Parochial school he ended attending was able to.

Feel free to pretend the supplementing and tutoring is a new thing but it has always existed, regardless of how strong the school system is. Public schools have always had to provide education for everyone. How they went about doing it might have been different, ie classes for the "slow" kids, "average" kids, and "smart" kids, but the Public schools have always had the mission of teaching all. This is hard to do and has lead to some parents needing to find tutors for their kids or enrichment for their kids because what they were getting at school wasn't a great fit.

And it is not just Public School kids. There are kids in Private School in the same situation. I would guess that there is a very small percentage of the population that there is a perfect fit in Public or Private and parents don't see that there is a need for some type of help or enhancement. There is probably a larger group of parents who see the need and just don't feel it is pressing enough to provide it.  There is enough of a presence in this area that some of those families that probably wouldn't do anything outside of schools start to feel like they need to because other people are doing it.

But this is nothing new. [/quote]

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