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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on the individual school in Fairfax County. The entire school system is well funded, (even in these tight times), but some schools are going to be better than others - all depending on parent participation. If you send your kids to a school that is a majority townhouse/apartment/condo area, it is not going to be very good because the parents aren't involved.

If you are sending them to a school in a majority single family home section, the parents will be involved and the school will be strong. You get out of the schools what you are willing to put in when all is said and done. Writing a check doesn't make it a great school.

Not true. Our local elementary school has no apts or townhouses. Lousy academics and grotesque class sizes. FCPS has site based management. The best schools in FCPS are those with a committed long term teaching staff that continues onward and defies FCPS. Longfellow Middle School in Mclean is worth attending - crappy administrators can't seem to k1ll the academics due to excellent teachers accumulated over far more than a decade.

The reference to Longfellow is pretty gratuitous. IMHO, the administration there is excellent, and the teachers are like teachers at other FCPS schools. Some are very good, and some shouldn't be allowed in a classroom.

[Anonymous]

What amazing ignorance. But you must know all about me -- since we live in a condo and we both work full-time, we don't care about our DD's education and we are not involved in the school. Run fast, away from us -- our apathy is contagious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What amazing ignorance. But you must know all about me -- since we live in a condo and we both work full-time, we don't care about our DD's education and we are not involved in the school. Run fast, away from us -- our apathy is contagious.

lol

Don't let the PP get to you. You should see her posts on the Northern Virgina forum on city-data -- just full of vile and racism. She's just looking for a new place to share it all.