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[quote=Anonymous]You are all missing the point. FCPS has plenty of money, perfectly adequate resources, and illuminated artificial turf football fields.

What FCPS does not have is quality instruction.

FCPS used to have varied instruction and today that is gone. It is only common sense that teachers should vary their instructional methodologies. Some students are visual learners, others are audible learners, some are kinetic learners, etc, etc.  FCPS used to have a red paper back book they distributed to teachers called "The Effective Teacher". It described and gave examples of effective teaching methods where the bottom line was to vary the instruction to appeal to every child's learning style. Makes sense right!?!?

FCPS no longer has varied instruction. Frankly, they have no instruction at all. The entire FCPS system in one form or another has adopted Problem Based Learning or in some schools they've come up a deceptive euphemism and they are calling it Project Based Learning to give the appearance that students are constantly collaborating on highly interesting dynamic mind riveting projects together.

It's the BIG LIE

The reality of FCPS instruction today is that the students are given a quantity of facts to learn by themselves and a test date three weeks later.  They are then essentially abandoned by they teachers for the next three weeks. They are told they can work in groups or alone to learn the material and then they are tested on it three weeks later. They are told if they need the teacher they should go looking for them or find them after school which of course is impossible because the majority of teachers are beating the kids out the door every afternoon.

The teachers in FCPS are so out of touch they no longer have any idea how to engage or communicate with their students.

Because nothing is being learned in their classrooms students are now required to teach themselves at home. Students used to have seven hours of school and a couple hours of homework. It was decent balance that allowed time for sports and socializing. Not anymore, today FCPS students have seven hours of school and seven hours of homework to make up for everything they didn't learn in school that day.

Our children are driven and they want to succeed so they are self-educating themselves to appease their teachers and to qualify for entry into their dream-school universities. They are doing it, but the costs are too high. Some kids are succeeding, but too many are being destroyed.

The kids are burned out and they have ridiculously high stress levels.  The students are detached from their teachers because they are not being taught anything but self-reliance. Teachers used to be mentors, but today their have reduced themselves down to being the guy or the lady who passes out and then collects those assignments three weeks later.

Between social media and too much homework, our kids hardly seem to know each other anymore and they don't seem to be particular fond of each other either.

Dr. Garza some of your students are alive and well, but too many are being crushed alive. [/quote]

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