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[quote=Anonymous]FCPS is definitely in decline.  The school board is highly-politicized and focused on everything other than academics -- equity, diversity, homosexual and transsexual stuff, free lunches, racial busing, renaming schools . . . basically everything other than actually teaching children core academic skills.

We came from public schools in another deep blue state (NJ), so I'm used to living in a left-leaning community -- but we were shocked at how disorganized, overcrowded, mismanaged, and poorly run the FCPS schools are.  And then, after a year or so, it really sank in how weak the education was, and how the dysfunction was manifest not only in the school and in the district, but also in the classroom.

I'm talking about everything from the school not being able to handle basic, mundane issues properly -- like communicating about classmates with lice, disciplining unruly and disruptive students, or figuring out reasonable lunch or bus schedules -- to more complex and troubling issues, such as students bringing weapons to school, doing away with textbooks, teaching to the lowest common denominator, and really questionable and low-effort "instruction" based on sending kids to "the internet" for research assignments.  I could actually witness my children becoming disinterested and regressing from skills they had achieved years before in public school elsewhere.

We pulled out kids out and they are now happy in private school.  It's shocking, to me, the low-quality and high-taxes that parents in FCPS put up with.  I think FCPS is coasting on the fumes of historically being a better school district than it is today.  But that will only last for a few more years.  Per capita, you'll see the "success" of FCPS students falling in comparison to better-run school districts.

I can only chalk it up to everything in the DC-metro area having become so uber-political that even the public schools have become a battleground for political ideology, and parents around here are so political that they are blind to the low-quality education that their kids are actually receiving, so long as their pet political beliefs are reinforced.

In short, at 190K students, FCPS is a bloated institution, run like an inner-city school district in terms of the incompetence, waste, low-morale, low-expectations, and "anything but academics" mentality of the school board.[/quote]

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