City of Fairfax vs County Schools

[Anonymous]

One way to be safe from restricting is to simply live near the high school of your choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
One way to be safe from restricting is to simply live near the high school of your choice.

The better advice would be not to live close to any schools you wouldn’t be willing for your kids to attend.

Boundaries are going to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
One way to be safe from restricting is to simply live near the high school of your choice.

The better advice would be not to live close to any schools you wouldn’t be willing for your kids to attend.

Boundaries are going to change.

^ although Fairfax City kids will stay at Fairfax HS by law. So in that case you just have to decide whether that school is acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is going to be the new superintendent in Fairfax City?

It had better be Dan if he wants it. IFYKYK

[Anonymous]

Sources say that Dan doesn't want it. I'd love it if he did want the job but I think he's looking toward retirement. He was very ill a few years ago before he left the principalship at PES.

[Anonymous]

Dr. Dustin Wright is the new superintendent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tend to think FCPS is eventually going to sever its relationship with Fairfax City. In the past it was a mutually beneficial relationship because FCPS operated the Fairfax City-owned schools while the schools also served some kids who lived in the county outside Fairfax City. But the requirement that all Fairfax City kids attend the city-owned schools results in weird boundaries in FCPS, and now FCPS is going to gain high school capacity with the acquisition of the KAA building (so will be less dependent on the capacity provided by the Fairfax City-owned schools). There are already a lot of people in the county zoned for Fairfax HS who are much closer to Centreville HS and would rather be zoned there.

If this happens, the entire system would be upended. 60% of FHS students live in the county. If the relationship ended, the city would likely have to sell the building and move to something much smaller. And given the number of county kids that wouldn't have a base school, FCPS would probably be the buyer and the boundary readjustment would make the current BRAC look like a day in the park. The city would have to build a full infrastructure for their schools with the same amount of money or massively raise taxes. It would be a disaster (in different ways) for both sides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tend to think FCPS is eventually going to sever its relationship with Fairfax City. In the past it was a mutually beneficial relationship because FCPS operated the Fairfax City-owned schools while the schools also served some kids who lived in the county outside Fairfax City. But the requirement that all Fairfax City kids attend the city-owned schools results in weird boundaries in FCPS, and now FCPS is going to gain high school capacity with the acquisition of the KAA building (so will be less dependent on the capacity provided by the Fairfax City-owned schools). There are already a lot of people in the county zoned for Fairfax HS who are much closer to Centreville HS and would rather be zoned there.

If this happens, the entire system would be upended. 60% of FHS students live in the county. If the relationship ended, the city would likely have to sell the building and move to something much smaller. And given the number of county kids that wouldn't have a base school, FCPS would probably be the buyer and the boundary readjustment would make the current BRAC look like a day in the park. The city would have to build a full infrastructure for their schools with the same amount of money or massively raise taxes. It would be a disaster (in different ways) for both sides.

In the past both the city and county benefitted from the relationship but Fairfax City periodically tells FCPS to kick county kids out of the city schools and FCPS obliges. Now with declining enrollments and FCPS adding capacity they may be in a position in the not too distant future to tell Fairfax City to run their own system. No one on the county cares if Fairfax City has to raise taxes if county kids get to attend closer schools and not FHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I tend to think FCPS is eventually going to sever its relationship with Fairfax City. In the past it was a mutually beneficial relationship because FCPS operated the Fairfax City-owned schools while the schools also served some kids who lived in the county outside Fairfax City. But the requirement that all Fairfax City kids attend the city-owned schools results in weird boundaries in FCPS, and now FCPS is going to gain high school capacity with the acquisition of the KAA building (so will be less dependent on the capacity provided by the Fairfax City-owned schools). There are already a lot of people in the county zoned for Fairfax HS who are much closer to Centreville HS and would rather be zoned there.

If this happens, the entire system would be upended. 60% of FHS students live in the county. If the relationship ended, the city would likely have to sell the building and move to something much smaller. And given the number of county kids that wouldn't have a base school, FCPS would probably be the buyer and the boundary readjustment would make the current BRAC look like a day in the park. The city would have to build a full infrastructure for their schools with the same amount of money or massively raise taxes. It would be a disaster (in different ways) for both sides.

In the past both the city and county benefitted from the relationship but Fairfax City periodically tells FCPS to kick county kids out of the city schools and FCPS obliges. Now with declining enrollments and FCPS adding capacity they may be in a position in the not too distant future to tell Fairfax City to run their own system. No one on the county cares if Fairfax City has to raise taxes if county kids get to attend closer schools and not FHS.

They don't but FCPS gets paid per student they "manage" from the City. I'm not sure the lawsuit/bodyguard budget could take that kind of hit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Dustin Wright is the new superintendent.

he is AWFUL. he was our MS principal and was so terrible,

[Anonymous]

How so? He was an vice principal at our school and seemed okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How so? He was a vice principal at our school and seemed okay.

He has a few canned lines that he uses on every parent but when things actually need addressing- he has no idea what to do. He is a perfect example of someone who has been promoted beyond his ability. Like I heard he was a not great elementary principal at a small school and several complaints led to him being promoted to MS which had similar issues which led to him to apply for the Falls Church City job that he did not do well at and then viola.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Dustin Wright is the new superintendent.

he is AWFUL. he was our MS principal and was so terrible,

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How so? He was a vice principal at our school and seemed okay.

He has a few canned lines that he uses on every parent but when things actually need addressing- he has no idea what to do. He is a perfect example of someone who has been promoted beyond his ability. Like I heard he was a not great elementary principal at a small school and several complaints led to him being promoted to MS which had similar issues which led to him to apply for the Falls Church City job that he did not do well at and then viola.....

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How so? He was a vice principal at our school and seemed okay.

He has a few canned lines that he uses on every parent but when things actually need addressing- he has no idea what to do. He is a perfect example of someone who has been promoted beyond his ability. Like I heard he was a not great elementary principal at a small school and several complaints led to him being promoted to MS which had similar issues which led to him to apply for the Falls Church City job that he did not do well at and then viola.....

+1

How is this going so far? I haven’t heard him say a word about the terrible situation at Fairfax.