Reid’s new email
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Anonymous
Aren’t all of these title one schools? |
Anonymous
IIRC the lists are pretty similar from last year. |
Anonymous
Weird she wouldn’t just call that out/say that. |
Anonymous
Not all of us are so magnanimous when it comes to our kids' education. Most of us appreciate a standardized scale like this to know which schools to avoid because the "vulnerable populations" will be occupying all the teachers' time. We aren't "scared off" by the data being freely available. We actively choose the best situation for our kids because our job as parents is more important than our civic duty to help someone else's kids who isn't doing a very good job themselves. |
Anonymous
How noble of you. |
Anonymous
Title I should bring additional resources. I taught in a Title I school and we did bring a great program in--but it was a grant written by a very talented teacher. It was very effective. However, most of the kids were extremely poor. I do know someone in a different district who has her child in a Title I school--which is also a magnet. They are extremely happy with the school. It seems that a lot of the kids do place in for the STEM. There are definitely struggling kids there, but it is a nice diverse school. Great staff. |
Anonymous
They already get extra support. There are smaller class sizes. There are extra reading and math specialists. There are outreach attempts. I am not sure what the schools can do more than what they are doing. The issue, that the schools cannot solve, is that the population needing the support needs the support at home but doesn’t have it. Many are not read to as babies or toddlers. Many don’t have the supports to deal with school work sent home. Many are hungry and can’t focus at school. And the schools can’t do anything about that. Society can’t fix homes that don’t value education. Maybe we need to start holding kids back who are not on grade level in early ES, that seems to be working in Mississippi. But it is not like the schools have not been trying to help the kids out, they have been. |
Anonymous
These are the kids most impacted by this crazy calendar where their parents are scrambling for childcare for them every week and they're not getting the routine and repetition they need at the early grades. I expect Reid to take no responsibility. |
Anonymous
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The new republican play book (the one promoted by the current US sec. of Education and her family --- DeVos/AMWAY kooks) is all about minimizing public education and maximizing religious-based private education.
So, it makes sense to make people afraid of their public schools (i.e. require the schools to notify all parents if any kid has a drug-related overdose, even if it happens away from the school), and make parents fear other schools by creating nonsensical "standards" that label many schools as "failing." The only reasonable response when you are told your kid's schoo is a disaster -- is to try to get them into some other "better" school -- which is where they step in with state-funded vouchers! |
Anonymous
This is a common assertion and yet it’s not what is happening with this boundary review. |
Anonymous
It’s “Distinguished,” and Annandale did as well. |
Anonymous
I saw “Distinguished”. Good for them 👏 |
Anonymous
I’m no fan of this administration but if Vouchers come in in VA, FCPS will have no one to blame but themselves. I think parents are entitled to this information. Which of these schools do you feel like is unfairly labeled and for what reason? |
Anonymous
The initial goals of the boundary review was to try and rebalance some of the high FARMs schools by moving kids from the FARMs schools to a nearby school with fewer FARMs kids and vice versa. The bigger focus was on HS than the ES, ie Lewis and West Springfield and Herndon and Langley. That was dropped pretty quickly because parents saw it coming and immediately raised issues with it. Toss in the election and the school board moved away from that. |
Anonymous
| Not thing left to do is get rid of AAP in the ES level in hopes that repopulating classrooms with smart kids will help the basement kids. |