Anonymous
Post 06/21/2026 08:29     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:This should be retitled the Vote Republican forum


I know. Nothing FCPS does will be good enough, and DCUM will continue to rail against “equity” and whatnot. While FCPS currently acknowledged the need to ensure more 5-day school weeks and adjust the calendar accordingly, DCUM will find another way to complain about it and attribute it to the evil “equity”. I heard some guy at work complaining that his child (who was taking world history) was learning about Africa and should instead be focused on history directly impacting the US. Really? We shouldn't learn about the world around us even if it doesn’t directly affect us? SMDH.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2026 08:17     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
I’m not sure what school your kids attend, but mine had finals every day except the last day. 🤷‍♀️
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2026 08:16     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:A few years ago (2018? 2019?) The school board changed its policy to encourage students to protest while at school.

I think that the high school kids missing the past few weeks can be classified as a very grass roots protest of the unbelievably bad calendar of 2025-26, especially the past few weeks of achool starting with the ridiculous 2 day week after Memorial Day.

Consider the kids missing as FCPS doing their civic duty to protest bad leadership decisions.


This is a ridiculous reach. OMG. Just stop.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2026 09:15     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:My junior has 20%+ absences overall and is tardy almost every day. In some courses, they are absent almost 50% of the time, yet they still have nearly straight As while taking all AP and DE courses. They learn most of the content on their own outside of school using AI tutoring and training, turn everything in remotely, and show up for the tests.

That is part of the problem: they do not see much value in coming to school. In fact, they feel it takes away time they could be using to study more effectively on their own.


You just described the vast majority of high school age homeschooled kids. (Certainly all the ones I know.)
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2026 09:00     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
This should be retitled the Vote Republican forum
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2026 08:52     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:They need to get rid of all the excess holidays and shorten this part of the year. No learning gets done after the standardized tests are taken.
This is by design. They are ‘teaching to the test.’ For K-8 the instruction is crammed in from October-April. The SOLs happen in early May and then school is effectively done. The teachers are checked out.


Even earlier. Our first SOL test was at the end of April.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2026 18:06     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:+1


quote=Anonymous]
Anonymous wrote:My junior has 20%+ absences overall and is tardy almost every day. In some courses, they are absent almost 50% of the time, yet they still have nearly straight As while taking all AP and DE courses. They learn most of the content on their own outside of school using AI tutoring and training, turn everything in remotely, and show up for the tests.

That is part of the problem: they do not see much value in coming to school. In fact, they feel it takes away time they could be using to study more effectively on their own.


+1
This is how my kid did high school. Is now thriving at a T20.


So why should FCPS change?
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2026 00:43     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:They need to get rid of all the excess holidays and shorten this part of the year. No learning gets done after the standardized tests are taken.
This is by design. They are ‘teaching to the test.’ For K-8 the instruction is crammed in from October-April. The SOLs happen in early May and then school is effectively done. The teachers are checked out.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2026 00:39     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why would HS kids go to school this week? Finals ended last week. Our HS gets out at 11:20 today and tomorrow and 10:10 on Wednesday. They go to each class for 9 minutes.

Legally they have to hold school these days to get our days/hours in for the school year, but I fail to see how this issue has anything to do with FCPS not treating parents as stakeholders.

It doesn't matter when the last 3 days of school are - kids are going to treat them the same way.


Are HS doesnt even give 9mins in each class on Wednesday. The kids are loaded into the gym like a holding tank. Nope - not sending that day. Send all the random texts you want.


There are no texts on the last day, attendance isn't even taken. The only ones there are a handful of freshmen.
Turns out. They do call and ask where your kid is on the last day of you don’t provide an excuse. The kids went to an amusement park and I didn’t call the attendance line. But then they called me.
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 19:35     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1


quote=Anonymous]
Anonymous wrote:My junior has 20%+ absences overall and is tardy almost every day. In some courses, they are absent almost 50% of the time, yet they still have nearly straight As while taking all AP and DE courses. They learn most of the content on their own outside of school using AI tutoring and training, turn everything in remotely, and show up for the tests.

That is part of the problem: they do not see much value in coming to school. In fact, they feel it takes away time they could be using to study more effectively on their own.


+1
This is how my kid did high school. Is now thriving at a T20.


FCPS HS sucked the life out of my kid. Has why bother attitude after the first semester freshman year. Has lousy grades (becauee nobody really cares or come to class, his words). Lousy grades but 4s and 5s in 8 AP classes (Hes, we paid for the extras). Teachers are burnt out by the system. They could handle the environment if admin actually backed them and actually dealt with bad behavior instead of rewarding it. But that’s the way FCPS wants to handle things.


As a system, FCPS is circling the drain.

So glad DD just graduated and we are done with this failing school system.


So who are you blaming (b/c it doesn’t look like you put any of that blame pie on you as parents)? Other parents? Teachers? School Admin? It is easy to blame others. What is YOUR solution then????
Anonymous
Post 06/17/2026 07:52     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:+1


quote=Anonymous]
Anonymous wrote:My junior has 20%+ absences overall and is tardy almost every day. In some courses, they are absent almost 50% of the time, yet they still have nearly straight As while taking all AP and DE courses. They learn most of the content on their own outside of school using AI tutoring and training, turn everything in remotely, and show up for the tests.

That is part of the problem: they do not see much value in coming to school. In fact, they feel it takes away time they could be using to study more effectively on their own.


+1
This is how my kid did high school. Is now thriving at a T20.


FCPS HS sucked the life out of my kid. Has why bother attitude after the first semester freshman year. Has lousy grades (becauee nobody really cares or come to class, his words). Lousy grades but 4s and 5s in 8 AP classes (Hes, we paid for the extras). Teachers are burnt out by the system. They could handle the environment if admin actually backed them and actually dealt with bad behavior instead of rewarding it. But that’s the way FCPS wants to handle things.


As a system, FCPS is circling the drain.

So glad DD just graduated and we are done with this failing school system.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2026 19:43     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
They have 9 minute classes and 7 minutes between classes so my HSer went to yoga class and skipped useless school
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2026 17:59     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
Anonymous wrote:+1


quote=Anonymous]
Anonymous wrote:My junior has 20%+ absences overall and is tardy almost every day. In some courses, they are absent almost 50% of the time, yet they still have nearly straight As while taking all AP and DE courses. They learn most of the content on their own outside of school using AI tutoring and training, turn everything in remotely, and show up for the tests.

That is part of the problem: they do not see much value in coming to school. In fact, they feel it takes away time they could be using to study more effectively on their own.


+1
This is how my kid did high school. Is now thriving at a T20.


FCPS HS sucked the life out of my kid. Has why bother attitude after the first semester freshman year. Has lousy grades (becauee nobody really cares or come to class, his words). Lousy grades but 4s and 5s in 8 AP classes (Hes, we paid for the extras). Teachers are burnt out by the system. They could handle the environment if admin actually backed them and actually dealt with bad behavior instead of rewarding it. But that’s the way FCPS wants to handle things.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2026 11:49     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
So you have to write in an excuse for every tardy and absence?
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2026 11:45     Subject: How long has it been since FCPS treated parents as actual stakeholders?
+1


quote=Anonymous]
Anonymous wrote:My junior has 20%+ absences overall and is tardy almost every day. In some courses, they are absent almost 50% of the time, yet they still have nearly straight As while taking all AP and DE courses. They learn most of the content on their own outside of school using AI tutoring and training, turn everything in remotely, and show up for the tests.

That is part of the problem: they do not see much value in coming to school. In fact, they feel it takes away time they could be using to study more effectively on their own.


+1
This is how my kid did high school. Is now thriving at a T20.