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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was talking with a few other parents and they were complaining about how FCPS’s new curriculum has been dumbed down and how their 5th grader hasn’t even written any papers yet and are doing very rudimentary work. Has this been your experience as well? [/quote]

I can speak to high school in FCPS.  Yes, FCPS has dumbed-down the education provided in the county.  Specifically, our school board is behind this change.

The majority of our school board, and particularly the chair, follow an ideology which Kamala Harris publicly spoke of several times in speeches and interviews; the “woke” ideology.  Google it.

Another poster described it so well:

“ Or in our schools, the woke idea that gifted and talented classes aren’t fair and we should lump remedial learners with advanced learners, thus forcing teachers to teach to the common denominator. This sort of woke thinking makes the entire nation dumber. I know it feels good and whatever, but do you want an engineer who was just scooted by and pushed up to the next grade and is less qualified because we have water down academic vigor? Because we eliminated neutral testing for entry to rigorous schools? No dude. That’s how you get Boeing 737 type planes everywhere.

I’m a pro-choice liberal who voted for Harris and who lives in SE DC the way. I live in a nice row house and I drive a cargo bike and do all the normal urban city sht every other parent here does, but I’m sick of the idiocy and woke policies with crime and school. It’s fking up our world standing, competitiveness and domestic safety.”

I am a parent and I live here in Fairfax with my partner and two children, but I agree completely with the D.C. voter / DCUM parent who wrote the above.[/quote]

Other than dumbing down 3rd grade advanced math, please prove what [i]this current school board[/i], elected in 2023, has actually done. They definitely talk a big game about equity, but have they really implemented changes? Not many.[/quote]

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