Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 17:20     Subject: Re:What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
Anonymous wrote:It is easier for a parent with a child already well into the school system to do this than a parent of a child just starting out.


So I guess parents that have a child that is just starting out in the system will either have to start their own thread(s) or read what parents that have a child a bit further along in the system are interested in posting about.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 14:08     Subject: Re:What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
It is easier for a parent with a child already well into the school system to do this than a parent of a child just starting out.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 12:40     Subject: Re:What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
Anonymous wrote: I'm very interested in learning more about the schools, particularly FCPS


Then start a thread! There are a lot of issues to discuss:

1. what do you think about the amount of the FCPS transfer request to the Board of Supervisors?
2. what do you think about the search for a new FCPS Superintendent to replace Jack Dale?
3. what do you think about the FCPS Capital Improvement Program and the priority setting of individual schools?
4. what do you think about the not-yet-announced-but-will-be-here-soon FCPS boundary studies?
5. what do you think about the new FCPS School Board and how they are all getting along?

and that's just a start! And those just cover FCPS vs. the rest of Virginia!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 12:30     Subject: Re:What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
This thread is not about tests or AAP. I'm simply saying that as a new parent to the public schools system I'm bored by all the postings here even though I'm very interested in learning more about the schools, particularly FCPS. I check the postings but there is rarely a posting that isn't related to giftedness and/or testing. There must be more to FCPS than these issues.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 12:29     Subject: Re:What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Thread Closed.


Yep, let it die. 99% certain that a teenager was the OP.


Nope. I'm 42. A product of Ffx county schools and supportive parents that stepped back and didnt prep me for first grade SOLs.

Fwiw, I graduated with a 3.95. I turned out more successful then my two friends that went to the GT middle school...one works at Starbucks--the other got an mrs. Degree.


The MAN is the PLAN!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 12:13     Subject: Re:What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
Anonymous wrote: but really the VA forum has way too many postings on AAP this and test result that


I get your irony! Very cool to add to yet another thread in the VA forum! Very subtle, PP!
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 11:19     Subject: What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:


I've watched her go through PreK3, PreK4 and kindergarten not being challenged academically at all and I've been OK with that, because she's just a kid and had loads of fun anyway. . . So I start asking - what can I do? what should I do? what have other parents done? And posters like you jump all over it and call parents like me nuts. I don't get it.


You don't get why you seems nuts? You are frantic because preschool and kindergarten did not "challenge her" "academically".


Did you bother reading the rest of the sentence, freak? Does that sound frantic to you? You need some reading comprehension lessons. Challenge yourself.


Yup. Try again and read the entire post, not just the excerpts you put together to create something else.....
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 10:37     Subject: Re:What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
I get that a lot of parents don't understand the process of the Fairfax County AAP program for instance, but really the VA forum has way too many postings on AAP this and test result that. It makes it seem like gifted testing is all parents of VA students care about when there is so much more about the school system to comment on and work to make better.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 10:14     Subject: What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?
Anonymous wrote:


I've watched her go through PreK3, PreK4 and kindergarten not being challenged academically at all and I've been OK with that, because she's just a kid and had loads of fun anyway. . . So I start asking - what can I do? what should I do? what have other parents done? And posters like you jump all over it and call parents like me nuts. I don't get it.


You don't get why you seems nuts? You are frantic because preschool and kindergarten did not "challenge her" "academically".


Did you bother reading the rest of the sentence, freak? Does that sound frantic to you? You need some reading comprehension lessons. Challenge yourself.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2012 10:12     Subject: What will you freaks do in 10-11 years?



I've watched her go through PreK3, PreK4 and kindergarten not being challenged academically at all and I've been OK with that, because she's just a kid and had loads of fun anyway. . . So I start asking - what can I do? what should I do? what have other parents done? And posters like you jump all over it and call parents like me nuts. I don't get it.


You don't get why you seems nuts? You are frantic because preschool and kindergarten did not "challenge her" "academically".