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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public education has been ruined for years.  Let it crash and burn and we’ll start over. [/quote]

This. I began working in the schools when my own kids were in MS/HS after years SAH. It has been so eye opening. If I knew when they were younger what I know now, we would have done private K-12 and I plan to pay for my grandchildren to do just that.

Without major reform, public schools will become just for poor and special education students. Even middle class families will find a way out.

And I work at a “highly rated” school in a wealthy area with an active parents community. It’s still atrocious and the parents don’t seem to know. I didn’t back then.[/quote]
What I’ve noticed as my kids go through FCPS is that your kid needs to be in AAP/honors/AP/IB.  Because regular Ed classes are now for remedial students. 
And I agree that public schools will only be for the poor.  Forget special ed students. They are cooked.  [/quote]

Except other than AAP, they will let just about anyone into those other classes. Qualifed or not. Properly behaved or not. [/quote]

sure, but all kids in those classes have families or teachers who want them in there (or they want themselves to be in there). It's a filter that is 99 or more % effective. Kids who don't want to work opt for gen ed[/quote]

DP.  This is utter BS.  My bright kids who didn't qualify for AAP were stuck in Gen Ed throughout elementary school, along with SPED kids who were "mainstreamed".  IT DOESN'T WORK.  The bright kids deserve to be in a separate learning environment, just as the AAP kids are.  My kids absolutely wanted to work and learn, but were constantly prevented from doing so by the kids who had issues - learning or behavioral.  This is a disgusting way to run a school - keeping one group insulated from all of that but throwing everyone else in together.

If we are going to continue having AAP within FCPS, then it needs to be done using flexible groupings so that *everyone* can cycle into and out of the appropriate groups for them, without being locked into one massive group or the other.  If I had known this was how FCPS operates, we would absolutely have gone private.  Thank goodness high school finally rolled around and my kids could take all the AP classes they wanted - and excel in them.[/quote]

Perhaps your kids are stuck in Gen Ed because of your use of SPED. Sick.[/quote]

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