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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. We are new to Fairfax County. DC are in preschool now, so no first-hand experience with FCPS yet.

Everyone we have met, at church or at work or in our neighborhood, including some FCPS teachers, is giving us the same advice.   Here is a summary of what we keep hearing:

- FCPS was much stronger academically in the 1990s than now. 
- AAP now is secretly the standard track and Gen-Ed now is the slow track.
- AAP is watered down compared with 20 years ago. 
- Virginia's older SOLs were very good, until they were watered down to "align" with Common Core. 
- It is critical to get DC into AAP for them to have a challenging curriculum. 
- Do not leave AAP acceptance to chance; instead get DC prepped and get external testing to support an appeal if needed
- Even if in AAp, consider Kumon / Mathnasium / etc to supplement and reinforce.

This all seems nuts to us, but we are hearing the same advice from everyone, including FCPS teachers at church.

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If you check the other Nova forum and the Maryland school forums, they all say that too.  If you look at blogs online, parents are saying that about schools all over the country.

Occasionally, you'll hear some say that the "better" AAP of the 90s was a grind, was inappropriately too difficult and too much work for grade school kids.  So there's that.

FCPS high schools are very good.  That's something to keep in mind when you're getting bogged down in these sorts of comments.[/quote]

PP here. Where we came from, elsewhere in the USA, people did NOT have this kind of advice or these kinds of complaints. So it cannot be a universal situation. This is why it seems nuts to us, especially given positive marketing about FCPS.

No doubt some other areas are like FCPS. No telling how uncommon or common it might be nationally, however. 
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