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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the principal PP: why do you think there is a drastic uptick in mental health needs? Is it changes in the student demographic or a change happening to the usual cohort? Thanks [/quote]

In my experience as a teacher, a lot of the anxiety and pressure that these kids are dealing with that leads to these mental health issues is because of the parents. It is really not hard to see when you read the school boards here. Parents are intense, never satisfied, always pushing. They don't value letting their kids try and fail so they can learn that not being perfect is okay. They storm in and want to control everything so the kids don't have resilience. They act like Radford is worse than a death sentence so the kids kill themselves to go somewhere better because god forbid they just settle for JMU and have a fun college experience. If a teacher has fun with kids and tries to build rapport to at least give them one safe, low pressure environment, the parents freak out about the teacher being "inappropriate" or "not a master teacher." [/quote]

First of all there is nothing wrong with Radford and yesterday some idiot FCPS teacher was desparging  George Mason which has Nobel Prize winners on their faculty.

The reason FCPS students are under so much pressure is because they are required to educate themselves. Every parent in Fairfax will tell you their children had to educate themselves and the pressure on their children is psychologically devastating.

Parents and students in Fairfax universally testify that classroom instruction is bordering on non-existent.  If a kid can't master blackboard which is usually not up-to-date and if they are not excellent self-starters and self-educator they are dead.  Fairfax has educated families and a number of students who are self-started, but for average kids they are learning nothing in Fairfax high schools. They maybe hiding it from their parents, the other kids and probably to themselves as well, tens of thousand of our children are dying inside and the principals are too lazy and too self-consumed to see it and to rescue these children.

The reason you need master expert teachers is to make every class interesting.  Academics and learning are both fun, but it must be made relevant, fun and applicable.

The practice of teachers not being experts and only being one ahead of their students must end.  In FCPS thousands of students are intectually dying in their classroom and their principals don't give a damn.

FCPS teachers go into their classrooms and fake it everyday of the week and if a parent complains you spread the word in the teachers lounge and from that point on that kid will never get a grade higher than a "C".  If the teacher can't report misbehavior, humiliate or put a target on the kids back they'll destroy their GPA.

It's mind boggling how many incompetent mean girls and jocks paying job which primarily entail spending the majority of their teaching careers hanging out in the teachers lounge.[/quote]

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