VA schools haven't recovered from school closures

[Anonymous]

are there any non-rich kids in FCCPS at all?

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Anonymous wrote:All except for Falls Church City Schools, they are the exception. From WTOP article:

Unlike other districts, Falls Church City Public Schools saw numbers close to pre-pandemic levels, with the school system exceeding those levels in reading.

With all due respect, FCCPS as a district is smaller than one APS or FCPS high school and also has less minority students and low SES students than most as well. Schools with similar demographics did similarly well. The students most impacted by pandemic closing were the students who were the most at risk.

This. FCCPS has demographics that are based on their intentional secession from Fairfax County to avoid educating minority students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let it go. They’re opening now.

No, you don’t get to demand that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All except for Falls Church City Schools, they are the exception. From WTOP article:

Unlike other districts, Falls Church City Public Schools saw numbers close to pre-pandemic levels, with the school system exceeding those levels in reading.

Didn’t FCCPS reopen really early?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The local school board doesn't control abortion rights. I'm definitely going to think twice about who I vote for in school board elections due to school closures. I can't go back in time but I can think twice about voting for people who didn't make fact- based decisions and didn't pressure Duran to open schools when he said it was too complicated.

You might want to get your facts straight. Duran wasn't even the superintendent during 2019-2020 school year during school closures.

But he was superintendent for the 2020-2021 school year

So a brand new superintendent dealing with the most disruptive educational situation in the last hundred years should be blamed because kids didn't get pass advanced on their SOLs? My kid -- average intelligence, with IEP, hating school, probably never turned his camera on -- got the best scores he ever got on SOLs in the last two years. He should have flamed out but didn't. I'm sorry the pandemic inconvenienced you and messed up Larlo's chances to go to Harvard (or whatever the effect is you think is at issue).

It's over. If your kid was struggling you should have reached out or helped them yourself. Yeah, I got a lot sick of working full time and then having to be teach at night, but people were dying all over the place and the science behind it was always developing. The teachers always answered my emails or my son's requests. Arlington made every effort to reach kids who may not have had internet or parental support at home, but sometimes life is just going to suck. And I bet you didn't have to deal with the challenges of managing the reopening of large institutions during a time when mitigations were unknown/always changing, or the proper supplies were unavailable or on backorder. I did. I'm sorry Duran didn't have the same magic wand that you apparently had.

It’s over for YOU. But not for many, many other kids who will continue to struggle. PP is exactly right: school closures forever changed a lot of people’s politics. I would likely never vote R on the state/national level, but viewpoints on school closures are absolutely a single issue voter thing now for me on the local level.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All except for Falls Church City Schools, they are the exception. From WTOP article:

Unlike other districts, Falls Church City Public Schools saw numbers close to pre-pandemic levels, with the school system exceeding those levels in reading.

With all due respect, FCCPS as a district is smaller than one APS or FCPS high school and also has less minority students and low SES students than most as well. Schools with similar demographics did similarly well. The students most impacted by pandemic closing were the students who were the most at risk.

This. FCCPS has demographics that are based on their intentional secession from Fairfax County to avoid educating minority students.

FCCPS has 36% minority students and 8% economically disadvantaged. Very similar to other affluent school pyramids in the area. Your continued obsession with history from mid last century is getting really boring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All except for Falls Church City Schools, they are the exception. From WTOP article:

Unlike other districts, Falls Church City Public Schools saw numbers close to pre-pandemic levels, with the school system exceeding those levels in reading.

With all due respect, FCCPS as a district is smaller than one APS or FCPS high school and also has less minority students and low SES students than most as well. Schools with similar demographics did similarly well. The students most impacted by pandemic closing were the students who were the most at risk.

This. FCCPS has demographics that are based on their intentional secession from Fairfax County to avoid educating minority students.

FCCPS has 36% minority students and 8% economically disadvantaged. Very similar to other affluent school pyramids in the area. Your continued obsession with history from mid last century is getting really boring.

8 percent poor kids vs fcps 35-40 percent. Hmmm.

[Anonymous]

Because almost every family in fccps could afford outaide tutoring when schools were closed. Hence the kids are not as behind as less rich areas. I mean, duh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All except for Falls Church City Schools, they are the exception. From WTOP article:

Unlike other districts, Falls Church City Public Schools saw numbers close to pre-pandemic levels, with the school system exceeding those levels in reading.

With all due respect, FCCPS as a district is smaller than one APS or FCPS high school and also has less minority students and low SES students than most as well. Schools with similar demographics did similarly well. The students most impacted by pandemic closing were the students who were the most at risk.

This. FCCPS has demographics that are based on their intentional secession from Fairfax County to avoid educating minority students.

FCCPS has 36% minority students and 8% economically disadvantaged. Very similar to other affluent school pyramids in the area. Your continued obsession with history from mid last century is getting really boring.

Then compare statistics against affluent pyramids, not FCPS as a whole. Noonan’s smug statement on the superiority of FCCPS schools was so tone deaf.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All except for Falls Church City Schools, they are the exception. From WTOP article:

Unlike other districts, Falls Church City Public Schools saw numbers close to pre-pandemic levels, with the school system exceeding those levels in reading.

Didn’t FCCPS reopen really early?

No. They were about the same as every other school in the area. It wasn’t significant.