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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of the students in my daughter’s math class sophomore year went home at night and used Khan academy (some needed tutoring too I am sure) because the teacher was that bad.

At a neighborhood barbecue a new arrival to the pyramid was shocked to hear this. She had elementary aged children. I was amused that she was so surprised. Langley may be high-performing but it is still a public school. It can be common knowledge that a teacher sucks,  and they still stay on year after year. This was before the craziness of 2020. And the extra challenges it brought for everyone.
Overall the teachers have been excellent, others competent but there are no guarantees.[/quote]

This was us a few years back (when we first moved here).  The other surprise to us was that nearly everyone told us that “In FCPS, AAP is the standard track and GenEd is the slow track; do whatever it takes to get DC into AAP.”.  Even a FCPS teacher who lived nearby said this about AAP.  We had (erroneously) thought the high performance of FCPS schools was from quality of curriculum and quality of instruction, but actually the performance reflects widespread (i.e., county-wide, as we have learned from colleagues at work) after-school enrichment and tutoring.  [/quote]

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