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Yes, it’s been a while - I had very limited online access for a couple years. (long story that matters not)

Yes, we’re in Virginia. It is by far not the best district in the state, but in comparison to the districts where we lived in Delaware it is superb! I only questioned your comment on history because it was a bit of a bone of contention in household this past school year.

My husband is a stickler for factual history and only had a couple of minor points of issue with our daughter’s course work (7th grade) and she enjoys history as much as he does. So we couldn’t figure out why she was only getting C’s, when her test scores were all A’s. Nothing to do with her absorption of the subject matter, just a failure to either do or bother turning in assignments. She hated me for an entire quarter because she wasn’t even permitted to have the radio on until any history work was completed.

It all worked out, the grade came up, she was allowed to go to the spring dance and once again made the honor roll.

That’s the way my husband (public school) and I (Catholic school) grew up and back then there was no federal government involvement like there is today - heck my husband was out of HS before Carter became President and I was out in the middle of his term. A return to local control is what is needed, with even the state scaling back to a certain extent and leaving more flexibility at the district level.

It drives me nuts.