What is the best public high school in Fairfax County?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

Praytell what school offer team taught classes in AAP or Honors classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

We have had the FCO at sit downs and at our IEP meetings (she was basically a CYA person for the administration), we have had people from GateHouse at our meetings (we have had the most help from them), we have done our homework and advocated, hired advocates, hired private evaluators, hired tutors, and still MS and until THIS year, HS has NOT had team taught classes in Honors AP or AAP. Do not speak of what you do not know, you ignorance and assumptions are astounding.

I am NOT in the Langley district and do NOT have a million dollar house, let alone multimillion.

I dare you to go to Fairfax Twice Exceptional yahoo group and make your outrageous statement and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

We have had the FCO at sit downs and at our IEP meetings (she was basically a CYA person for the administration), we have had people from GateHouse at our meetings (we have had the most help from them), we have done our homework and advocated, hired advocates, hired private evaluators, hired tutors, and still MS and until THIS year, HS has NOT had team taught classes in Honors AP or AAP. Do not speak of what you do not know, you ignorance and assumptions are astounding.

I am NOT in the Langley district and do NOT have a million dollar house, let alone multimillion.

I dare you to go to Fairfax Twice Exceptional yahoo group and make your outrageous statement and see what happens.

We also tried to go through Janie Strauss on numerous issues and she was a total waste of time. I donated to and voted for the Republican in the last round (for the first time in my life)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

We have had the FCO at sit downs and at our IEP meetings (she was basically a CYA person for the administration), we have had people from GateHouse at our meetings (we have had the most help from them), we have done our homework and advocated, hired advocates, hired private evaluators, hired tutors, and still MS and until THIS year, HS has NOT had team taught classes in Honors AP or AAP. Do not speak of what you do not know, you ignorance and assumptions are astounding.

I am NOT in the Langley district and do NOT have a million dollar house, let alone multimillion.

I dare you to go to Fairfax Twice Exceptional yahoo group and make your outrageous statement and see what happens.

I think there is one poster here who is a former Langley parent who is a raving, opinionated lunatic. I don't really hold it against the school, but she's totally nuts on any number of topics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to say whether there is a "best" for everyone - FCPS is an extremely highly-rated school system and I would put a higher value on the commute as others have stated. Close-in to DC, it's hard to go wrong with Langley, McLean, Madison, or Marshall. I went to Marshall, so I'm biased there

One of these things is not like the others.

True 3 are AP and one is IB. All are fine options. What is your point?

Not the poster to whom you're responding, but I'm guessing the other poster is arguing Madison is not as close-in to DC as the three other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

We have had the FCO at sit downs and at our IEP meetings (she was basically a CYA person for the administration), we have had people from GateHouse at our meetings (we have had the most help from them), we have done our homework and advocated, hired advocates, hired private evaluators, hired tutors, and still MS and until THIS year, HS has NOT had team taught classes in Honors AP or AAP. Do not speak of what you do not know, you ignorance and assumptions are astounding.

I am NOT in the Langley district and do NOT have a million dollar house, let alone multimillion.

I dare you to go to Fairfax Twice Exceptional yahoo group and make your outrageous statement and see what happens.

So why are you commenting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

Why is this insult even relevant to OP's question?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please list the high schools in Fairfax County to avoid?

Also, is there a presence of MS-13 gang members at either of the high schools in Fairfax County?

You are the only poster who has raised a good, appropriate discussion to OP's question. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question but perhaps this will get the discussion back on point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

We have had the FCO at sit downs and at our IEP meetings (she was basically a CYA person for the administration), we have had people from GateHouse at our meetings (we have had the most help from them), we have done our homework and advocated, hired advocates, hired private evaluators, hired tutors, and still MS and until THIS year, HS has NOT had team taught classes in Honors AP or AAP. Do not speak of what you do not know, you ignorance and assumptions are astounding.

I am NOT in the Langley district and do NOT have a million dollar house, let alone multimillion.

I dare you to go to Fairfax Twice Exceptional yahoo group and make your outrageous statement and see what happens.

We also tried to go through Janie Strauss on numerous issues and she was a total waste of time. I donated to and voted for the Republican in the last round (for the first time in my life)

I agree. You often have to hire your own attorney, which is not the way it should be. FCPS fights (in my opinion) too hard against services that the kids need. Fortunately, our psychiatrist was sufficiently aggressive that we got through the IEP process w/o a hitch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And those kids don't get the shaft if they get a proper IEP and aggressively monitor it. A 504 gets you nothing. An IEP, properly written, and monitored, should be able to cover the brilliant child with other issues so they are not stuck in "balkinized siloes" (unbelievable). If the parents expect the school to do everything for them it will not happen. You have to be assert about the IEP. You have to monitor. You have to make sure you are getting good team teachers. You have to watch your child. You have to raise issues with the team if the child is not receiving the benefits on the IEP. And if that doesn't work you call the Fairfax Compliance Officer and ask for a full sit-down meeting. You can't just sit in your multi-million dollar home and whine about Balkinized Siloes if you aren't doing your homework and advocating for your child.

We have had the FCO at sit downs and at our IEP meetings (she was basically a CYA person for the administration), we have had people from GateHouse at our meetings (we have had the most help from them), we have done our homework and advocated, hired advocates, hired private evaluators, hired tutors, and still MS and until THIS year, HS has NOT had team taught classes in Honors AP or AAP. Do not speak of what you do not know, you ignorance and assumptions are astounding.

I am NOT in the Langley district and do NOT have a million dollar house, let alone multimillion.

I dare you to go to Fairfax Twice Exceptional yahoo group and make your outrageous statement and see what happens.

That's right - team teaching drops out as the child progresses through the system. Why is that surprising?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

Why is this insult even relevant to OP's question?

If a Langley parent claims it's the best school in the county, and then demonstrates she has no idea how many kids have actually attended the school at any point over the past decade, I'm less inclined to take her other comments about Langley or FCPS seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone please list the high schools in Fairfax County to avoid?

Also, is there a presence of MS-13 gang members at either of the high schools in Fairfax County?

You are the only poster who has raised a good, appropriate discussion to OP's question. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question but perhaps this will get the discussion back on point.

The first question is entirely different than the question posed by the OP, and I don't understand the reference to "either of the high schools in Fairfax County" in the second question, when there are 25 high schools in the county.

[Anonymous]

Oh, I thought from the conversation there was only one, Langley...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

Why is this insult even relevant to OP's question?

If a Langley parent claims it's the best school in the county, and then demonstrates she has no idea how many kids have actually attended the school at any point over the past decade, I'm less inclined to take her other comments about Langley or FCPS seriously.

No one on this thread has claimed Langley is the best in the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And you would be wrong. I serve on commissions locally and was at that glorious graduation service at DAR hall June 13th. Population stats are constantly on the increase because of people clamoring to get into the school. Why do you think there are trailers in the back? Why do you think we have to rigidly impose residency requirements. http://www.city-data.com/school/langley-high-school-va.html

Langley's enrollment was under 2000 last year: http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf

For most of the last decade, the enrollment was between 1900 and 2100 students. It was nowhere close to 2400 students. Currently, FCPS is projecting that the enrollment at Langley, Cooper and several elementary schools that feed into Langley will decline. Conversely, the enrollment at Marshall and McLean and their feeders, which are closer to Tysons and Metro stations, has been increasing. FCPS has suggested that it may move kids from the McLean and Marshall pyramids to Langley to even out the enrollment, but nothing specific has been proposed yet.

I hope other Langley parents are better informed and less arrogant than you are.

No, we're just a helluva lot nicer and don't nitpick posters to pieces over stats. that don't make a bit of difference.