Have any FCPS schools ever lost accreditation? What happens if they do?

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Anonymous wrote:They will move heaven and earth to avoid a not fully accredited school. As a PP mentioned if a school slips out of accreditation, people who are zoned for that school have the automatic option to attend elsewhere. It creates potential overcrowding situations at the receiving schools. And the optics are absolutely terrible.

The state standards for accreditation are not particularly tough. I don’t see any FCPS schools falling all the way to losing accreditation.

Our elementary school was in jeopardy about 7 years ago. FCPS pre-emptively made a few moves including sending the principal to another school.

I remember a lot of discussion on here in 2014-2015ish about Lewis (then Lee) and how FCPS was legitimately worried that it could lose accreditation. They would have rather closed it than have a HS that wasn’t fully accredited. There were tentative plans in place for where to move the elementary feeders.

It would be pretty big news if a school was legitimately close to losing accreditation - it wouldn’t happen overnight. Again, definitely not worried about anything in FCPS right now.

Actually we have several elementary schools that are dangerously close to losing accreditation.

Just because schools are Title 1 and in “needs intensive support” doesn’t mean they are really close to losing accreditation. If years-long troubled Jefferson-Houston in Alexandria can squeak by with “conditionally” year after year, everything in FCPS should be perfectly fine.

+1. Particularly with Democrats calling the shots in Richmond. For better or worse, accreditation is now seen as a political exercise where Republicans will look to find ways to strip public schools of accreditation to promote vouchers and Democrats will do anything to keep schools accredited to appease teachers’ unions.

+1 you’re not going to find anything in the public schools losing accreditation anytime soon. Charter schools possibly. It’s a political exercise.

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I used to teach at Whitman MS. We routinely had veteran FCPS teachers transfer to our school and quit 3 months in due to student behavior , but mostly administration (This was Craig Herring era) telling us to just “read a classroom management book” while we had kids screaming, fighting, etc in class. I had a student who was sexually assaulted and repeatedly sexually harassed by a male student in her gym class. I immediately went with her to file a report and request that the offender be removed from her class. It took MONTHS of my trying to follow up and help this poor girl. Anyway, it wasn’t until this girls family marched into the principals office and aid they would take this to the media and sue that they finally took the male out of her class.

I say all this because this is the type of environment that demoralizes students and teachers and distracts from actual learning.


We were ALWAYS in danger of losing our accreditation. There were MANY years where we were the ONLY MS “accredited w / warning.”
I left that place a while ago, but the very few coworkers I had who are still there say it has just gotten worse. Accreditation still a clusterf**

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We were in danger of losing our accreditation all 4 years I was at this particular MS. I don’t know if they ever got out of the bubble or if they are accredited now.

However, what I DO remember is that our terrible principal would CONSTANTLY tell the entire school that if we lost accreditation, he (the very ineffective principal who was forced to retire early due to a student beating up another kid in a violent bus incident after I left)would fire all of us and he would be in charge of hiring/rehiring new staff for his improved school…

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Anonymous wrote:They will move heaven and earth to avoid a not fully accredited school. As a PP mentioned if a school slips out of accreditation, people who are zoned for that school have the automatic option to attend elsewhere. It creates potential overcrowding situations at the receiving schools. And the optics are absolutely terrible.

This is how/why they picked AAP center schools at the ES level.

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Anonymous wrote:They will move heaven and earth to avoid a not fully accredited school. As a PP mentioned if a school slips out of accreditation, people who are zoned for that school have the automatic option to attend elsewhere. It creates potential overcrowding situations at the receiving schools. And the optics are absolutely terrible.

This is how/why they picked AAP center schools at the ES level.

NP. Is this actually true? I believe it but didn't know that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will move heaven and earth to avoid a not fully accredited school. As a PP mentioned if a school slips out of accreditation, people who are zoned for that school have the automatic option to attend elsewhere. It creates potential overcrowding situations at the receiving schools. And the optics are absolutely terrible.

This is how/why they picked AAP center schools at the ES level.

NP. Is this actually true? I believe it but didn't know that.

It is why families at title 1 schools choose AAP Centers, it is an easy way to move away from a school that has a lot of struggling students.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They will move heaven and earth to avoid a not fully accredited school. As a PP mentioned if a school slips out of accreditation, people who are zoned for that school have the automatic option to attend elsewhere. It creates potential overcrowding situations at the receiving schools. And the optics are absolutely terrible.

This is how/why they picked AAP center schools at the ES level.

NP. Is this actually true? I believe it but didn't know that.

It's not written policy (they aren't THAT dumb) but it was absolutely a key factor. Friends working in FCPS admin confirm.

As they move to Local Level IV, some of the elementary schools are going to fall into a danger zone.

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A few admin were abruptly moved from our school and next year incoming students will supposedly be required to take CTE classes as their elective.

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Anonymous wrote:A few admin were abruptly moved from our school and next year incoming students will supposedly be required to take CTE classes as their elective.

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Sorry, what does that have to do with the topic? Are CTE classes easier and therefore more likely to prop up accreditation status?

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Anonymous wrote:A few admin were abruptly moved from our school and next year incoming students will supposedly be required to take CTE classes as their elective.

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Sorry, what does that have to do with the topic? Are CTE classes easier and therefore more likely to prop up accreditation status?

Combined with the abrupt (find out after school mi e to another school next day) of admin combined with the new CTE requirement may be to get a head of bad news about the school’s status.

Are other HS’s adding this requirement next year? If not, why else would this schoo be singled out.