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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended Fairfax county public school in the suburbs back in the 80s/90s and I could write your post word for word almost. Except I realize that what happened back then  - a well educated English speaking populations homogenous school population - no longer exists so that would make my experience no longer relevant.[/quote]

Exactly.  Now, we have a bazaar instead of a well-educated, English speaking population with a common culture; and now FCPS is hyper-focused on pet political causes and avoiding offending anyone, and barely focused at all on actual academic achievement or enforcing basic discipline with the students.

The latest push by FCPS is to water-down the discipline of the already-unruly student population, by trying to "fix" so-called "disparate discipline" ... given that FCPS just "fixed" the problem of students in distance learning getting poor grades by inflating everyone's grade (problem solved!) you can imagine how they plan to "fix" the problem (as they've defined it) of "disparate discipline" of students, rather than, say, fix the problem of disparate [b]misbehavior[/b] by certain students.  This is not an idle concern.  I had a 2nd grader at FCPS whose school experience was constantly interrupted and degraded by several misbehaving students in her class for the entire year -- nothing was done to effectively address it even after discussions with the teacher and principal.  Another of my children, in middle school, was confronted by another student in the bathroom with a weapon.  Meanwhile, FCPS Superintendent drones on about "disparate discipline" in his One Fairfax "equity" cult.

So now, FCPS parents scramble and fret to get their children into "AAP" which is basically just a ticket out of the lowest-common-denominator "gen ed" mess that they've created.

The answer is tracking kids even in elementary school based on demonstrated academic achievement, willingness to follow directions and learn, and general good-student behavior.  But don't hold your breath for FCPS to take any logical steps like that -- they subscribe to the theory that your polite, well-behaved children are some sort of public-resource that they can sprinkle around classrooms full of misbehaving, uninterested, or non-English speaking students and which will make the other students improve by osmosis.  In fact, all it does is harm your children. [/quote]

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