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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We both went to public school and DH and I are both unbelievably disappointed in FCPS. We received much stronger educations in what I thought were crappy 1980s public schools.[/quote]

DH and I are FCPS graduates and have had FCPS students since 2005. It’s been a precipitous decline.

I know that our DC aren’t experiencing the same level of academic rigor that we did.

My graduating senior shouldn’t be making poster board projects, for example.[/quote]

I find this hilarious. In 2005 there were over 30,000 fewer students in the FCPS system than there are now.

For those quoting the 1980s - I can't even imagine how much smaller the school system was then versus now.

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This is a great point.  I think the reality is that the school district (with the numbers it had) worked in the 80s and 90s.  There has been a huge influx of new students and the school system is overwhelmed.  We need to split it up into 4 or 5 different parts so that we can get the efficiency back from the past.[/quote]

The past was not more efficient. The poor population has skyrocketed recently, and English is not their first language. Before NCLB none of this mattered. Now we care about providing services for special ed and esol students. The pie is just not big enough anymore. [/quote]

PP “80s poster.” I happened to enter FCPS during a boom year; my graduating class was 750. 
My ES didn’t have a gym, so it was PE outside or in the cafeteria.
Overcrowding was certainly a thing; I had 5th and 6th grade classrooms in trailers.

Yes, there were students who got (quietly) pulled out for reading/speech/math for extra help and then GT students who spent just part of their day and after school in enrichment. My brother was one of the first GT kids and it was seamless. He was very much a part of his “regular” classroom.

ESL? WasMy high school had an interesting mix of Iranian and Vietnamese refugees; they learned by immersion and were surpassing g me on educational goals and coursework.

FCPS and their focus upon equity is misguided and set up to fail; learning grinds to a halt because now the system panders to the lowest levels of learning instead of attempting to get ESL students quickly up to reading level.
It sure is challenging to be the bright, preschool exposed, English speaking child in a classroom made up mostly of maybe 25 others who can’t speak or understand English. I’m all for diversity, but this is wrong.[/quote]

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