Marshall "3rd for Best School"
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Anonymous
What are you babbling about? You're the only poster who referred to the crazy Marshall lady. |
Anonymous
Lots more Asians at McLean than at Marshall. |
Anonymous
Hahaha wrong , look at student demographics |
Anonymous
| What a weird irrelevant tangent. Will this also be an Asian-bashing thread? |
Anonymous
Lots more Asians at McLean than at Marshall. Hahaha wrong , look at student demographics McLean is 21% Asian, Marshall is 16% Asian. There are about 60% more Asian students at McLean than at Marshall, too. When Asian families in Fairfax can afford AP schools, they tend to prefer them over IB schools. |
Anonymous
Hahaha wrong , look at student demographics McLean is 21% Asian, Marshall is 16% Asian. There are about 60% more Asian students at McLean than at Marshall, too. When Asian families in Fairfax can afford AP schools, they tend to prefer them over IB schools. http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/543-Marshall-High-School/?tab=demographics http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/mclean/545-McLean-High-School/?tab=demographics |
Anonymous
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The GreatSchools information you cited is from the 2008 school year. Since then Marshall's Asian population has declined in both absolute and percentage terms, while the Asian population at McLean has increased. Today, the Asian enrollment at both McLean and Langley exceeds that at Marshall.
http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf |
Anonymous
Hahaha wrong , look at student demographics McLean is 21% Asian, Marshall is 16% Asian. There are about 60% more Asian students at McLean than at Marshall, too. When Asian families in Fairfax can afford AP schools, they tend to prefer them over IB schools. Based on your scientific survey, I'm sure. I will say that AP programs are easier to understand -- ie. rote memorization = a passing score, but that doesn't mean they're better. Thankfully, many parents and students in the area are more worldly and capable of the original thinking that IB requires. |
Anonymous
This tangent got started when a poster incorrectly claimed, based on 2008-09 data reflected in current GreatSchools profiles, that Marshall has more Asian students than McLean. That was incorrect, as shown previously. In terms of demographic trends, over a four-year period from 2008 to 2012 in which the percentage of Asian high school students increased as a whole, and went up 3.5% at Langley, 2.1% at McLean, and 1.1% at Madison, it declined 4.3% at Marshall. This seems to be consistent with a widely held view that, given the choice, Asian families in FCPS tend to prefer AP schools to IB schools. It was not intended as a general comment on the respective strengths and weaknesses of AP and IB courses, although it is notable that the AAPAC's recent report to the School Board did specifically recommend that FCPS look for ways to enhance the existing math and science course offerings at the county's IB schools. Conversely, the AAPAC report did not recommend changing the humanities courses at AP schools. Be that as it may, the poster who previously claimed Marshall has more Asian students than McLean was incorrect. |
Anonymous
| yolo |
Anonymous
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A friend and I were driving back from Tysons over the weekend. She saw the sign outside of Marshall and expressed surprise the school had risen so high in the rankings. When I told her it was apparently based on some bad data, she said "It's the high school equivalent of giving trophies to every 5-year-old on the soccer team!"
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Anonymous
No bad data you turd face |
Anonymous
| Yes, in Fairfax County, all of our high schools are winners! |
Anonymous
troll fail http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2012/07/20/final-adjustments-to-best-high-schools-rankings |
Anonymous
This link's even funnier. |