Re: in a scale 1-10 how much do u hate fcps
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Date: April 24, 2015 04:10PM
0098987 Wrote:
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> wish I could turn back time Wrote:
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> > After 8 years, I'm voting with my feet and
> moving
> > my kids to private school. Wish I'd done it
> two
> > years ago. ES was not too bad, but MS has been
> > awful. Some teachers are really great, but
> they
> > are outweighed by the truly nasty, punitive
> > teachers.
> >
> > Just as example - progress report from my sons'
> > math teacher yesterday at 5PM, announcing that
> > extra help was available after school at 2:40PM.
>
> > Would have liked my son to attend, but being
> > notified 2 hours after it started makes it a
> tad
> > difficult. This quarter she's doing mandatory
> > nightly review on Blackboard (i'm sure for SOL
> > prep), announced 3 days into the quarter, oh
> and
> > there were two due already that can't be turned
> in
> > late - WTF? These kinds of things are so common
> I
> > have concluded that this is a way for teachers
> to
> > screw over students as a control technique.
> >
> > Teachers are all for "self advocacy" in MS, but
> in
> > reality is means cutting parents out of the
> > information flow. Since so much work is done
> at
> > home, you're left guessing on a lot of stuff.
> > Material is posted hit or miss on Blackboard -
> > sometimes late, sometimes never. To mitigate
> the
> > haphazard way that the teachers use Blackboard,
> I
> > have my kids review every single class, every
> > single night on Blackboard, and even then all
> of
> > the assignments are not posted.
> >
> > I have one more quarter left. If I knew what I
> > know now, I'd never send my kids to FCPS,
> > certainly not past ES. If you have young kids
> and
> > have the financial ability to opt out of FCPS,
> > consider it. Don't believe the FCPS propaganda
> -
> > it is a terrible system.
>
> Wow, you have suffered so. Before the door hits
> you in the fanny, let me give you one little
> parting bit of information: They're not online
> courses. I say again, they're not online
> courses.
>
> In class the teacher told your kid about the
> upcoming review sessions. Your kid either wasn't
> paying attention or chose to forget about it. In
> class your teacher told your kid about the SOL
> review. Again, your kid wasn't paying attention
> or chose to forget about it.
>
> And your kid got the paper assignment there in
> class. In fact, the teacher went over it and
> explained how to do it. And then your kid left it
> in his desk or dropped it in the hall or left it
> at his friend's house. And so you went on
> Blackboard and it wasn't there and now you're all
> upset at the teacher instead of at your kid.
> Because, after all, if there's anybody who is at
> fault there, it for damn sure isn't your son who
> got the worksheet and lost it.
>
> Let me guess, for years teachers have told you
> that your kid has an attention problem and needs
> help and you've tried "interventions" like not
> having him eat gluten or red food dye and stuff
> like that. But again, it's all the teacher's
> fault, right?
>
> One last little bit of info, which I am sure that
> your dumb ass won't even bother to think about:
> "Perfect" schools don't turn out perfect kids.
> You want a school where the teacher hands out the
> homework, goes over it five times, has a review
> session after school to work on it, posts it on
> Blackboard and posts an online tutorial, and where
> the teacher comes to your house and personally
> tutors your kid. Everything runs perfectly, your
> kid does not have to problem solve at all, and
> every i is dotted and every t is crossed.
>
> Which I am sure your dumb ass thinks life is
> actually like. Except it isn't. In real life
> meeting locations are moved at the last minute,
> the store runs out of ingredient you need right
> before you need it, the website goes down, and
> instructions aren't clear. And your
> perfectly-coddled kids will have not one flipping
> clue about how to deal with it. They'll stand
> there wetting their pants while the kids who grew
> up not having every last little thing done for
> them will problem solve and find a work-around.
>
> So please, take your lazy ass kids out of FCPS.
> Send them off to some private school and buy good
> grades for them and tell yourself you're doing the
> right thing. But when they totally fail in life,
> it will be all your fault.
So this is the classic FCPS response to criticism of what happens in the classroom:
1. It's the kid's fault - they are lazy, they lie, they don't pay attention
2. It's the parents' fault - they helicopter, they're entitled
Never an acknowledgement of anything other than perfection.