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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If you went through to private schools and then found ACPS to be a good fit, then the problem was not the private schools but the adademic rigor was too much for your child. 
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What a hideous thing to say to someone.  Whatever you think of ACPS, why would you feel the need to suggest that someone's child that you don't even know is unintelligent?  Perhaps the rigor of learning to spell the word "academic" correctly is too much for you.[/quote]

I never suggested the child was not intelligent. I suggested that he wasn't able to keep up with a rigourous academic program.  Not every single child is going to be able to do so. It doesn't mean that they are not intelligent but yes, it might mean that they are average or slightly below average academically.  The poster says they removed their child from two Alexandria private school for academic issues.  [/quote]

I'm the PP, and that's a fanciful interpretation.  The private school curricula were weak.  In fact, much weaker than the ACPS curriculum.  [b]And the ACPS TAG and honors programs (which are not the same) simply blow the private school curricula away[/b].  We pulled from private, in part for academic reasons -- because the privates we saw are simply so weak.

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I attended a public meeting held last year by the school system where representatives from school system admitted the TAG program and honors programs were both problematic. That the honors courses had no curriculum (so I find it weird you would say these calsses "blow the private school curricula" since none actually existed.)  The TAG program was being revamped and would actually have tests and require students to do the standard tests like FCPS administer.

I am guessing the "special art program" is the art class that is TAG designated. 
Students could previously be indentifed for a single subject TAG class and no other TAG courses. Starting this year, that was supposed to end as well as an end to putting new students into TAG Art.[/quote]

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