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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]See subject. I’m not talking about individual teachers. I’m talking about whether the system is set up to care about students as humans as opposed to widgets.

Should FCPS only care about providing a teacher who teaches focuses solely on academics ignoring also other aspects (eg, behavior, personal issues) or should it care only about getting kids out the door in 12th grade regardless of grades?

Should it care about students welfare out side of school or their mental health?

If a parent sees a problem outside of school that may impact what happens inside of school, should they bother keeping school/FCPS informed?

If there are issues happening in school (eg, bullying) that may impact what happens at home, should FCPS/school inform the parents?
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—Insisting on edtech for young children despite the evidence (which has been around for awhile at this point) that it is neurologically and socially stunting

—crap cafeteria food knowing how important nutrition is

—instructional fads so inadequate that many families had to teach reading themselves, leading even the local NAACP to call them out for this disparate impact

Etc

No the system doesn’t give a good gotdamn about what is best for children.
Never mind whether Larlo needs to sit
away from the window or Larla is borderline for AAP and the principal won’t let her in.

FCPS isn’t special in this regard, they are absolutely ordinary.

[b]Perhaps smaller town/county systems in which the people running it mostly have deeper roots and connections to the children they serve have a higher incidence of caring what is best for students[/b].[/quote]

I grew up in this kind of school system and my parents were teachers and administrators in that system and in theory it sounds nice like it should work and that everyone does better because they all care more deeply and are giving back to their community and it's more personal, but in reality, the lack of broad resources (human, economic, academic support) and the lack of diversity of viewpoints ends up killing the system and providing a vastly inferior education than what we see in a large system like in Fairfax.

Trust me the grass isn't greener.[/quote]

Firstly, the subject under discussion is whether FCPS cares, not whether a large uncaring system provides better academic offerings than a little system of people that give a damn.

Secondly, I also grew up in a smaller town and county. I can say with certainty that overall, the teachers, admin down to the cafeteria workers seemed to care from elementary through high school.  The education was quite good, (which is part of the reason that the town and county population has skyrocketed in the past 30 years.) What I had no connection to is the level that our county board of ed gave a da*n. (Which is why I used the word "perhaps." Not only for my own town, but because I was obviously offering a hypothesis for why FCPS is the way it is rather than suggesting they are just uniquely uncaring) Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.

It sucks that you grew up in a crap small town with crap education.  I only know one kid who graduated from a tiny town system in the modern era (married into the family) and that wasn't the experience thank goodness for them.

I'm glad that whatever you and your parents did outside of school to compensate was enough.

If you want to discuss all the pros and cons of smaller/vs. larger systems, that could actually be a really good thread.[/quote]

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