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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is over for us, thankfully. We moved in from another state, and were in "base" (what a name!) for awhile. The DCs were repeating work from 2 grades previous. Third, fourth grade, so repeating first,second grade material. For whatever reason (no child left behind/no child gets ahead?) My DCs are not geniuses or gifted --just academic. So I think that the overall dumbing down of the school system (while simultaneous praising itself to the skies) has resulted in a "need" for parents to be in the GT program because the pace is so slow to accommodate everyone. Even in GT the pace can be slow. When the parents see the work that their kids are doing, they get mad, because they know that their kids could do much more. So everyone wants to be in the program. But it only accepts 11%, so 89% do not make it. Every new family that moves in goes through this in our neighborhood (changing neighborhood with new families moving in...). It really makes me wonder about the FCPS system altogether.[/quote]

Where did you live before and what was your base school?  Without that I have trouble believing that your children were 2-3 years ahead.  Were students taking HS level algebra in 5th and 6th grade- routinely?  That would be 2-3 years below the math at my DCs base school.  The vast majority take Algebra Honors in 7th or 8th grade.  [/quote]

They were still reading at a K level in 2nd grade. Still working on that pesky alphabet. Still learning to add an s to make something plural. Just K level stuff in 2-3rd grade. It is not that my Dcs were so super smart, or that the other kids were not smart. It was that the whole class had to wait for each child to learn the most basic things. Then out came the coloring books...It was easier for the teacher to just repeat until the slowest kid finally got it. What a waste![/quote]

Again what school?  It really depends on the school  especially within a county as vast a Fairfax.   At my DC's base school the kids that were reading at grade level were in reading remission.  Everyone else was 1-? grades ahead.  Also, the math was different than your experience- they were taking multiplication tests starting in Nov/Dec of 2nd grade and adding/subtracting 3 and 4 digits numbers.    [/quote]

I don;t believe either of these extreme stories until you [b]cough[/b] up the names of the schools.[/quote]

Such hostility? The way this was phrased "cough up the names of the schools " .  I don't get it. Are the schools doing something they are not suppose to be doing or are you upset that it did not occur at your school. I am not the poster but when my child was in second grade at FCPS school she was given extra work sheets to do when she was done doing the classwork like sheet to do  30 multiplication questions in one minute  and also got sheets to add and subtract 3-4 digit numbers.  
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