Bailey's ES
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Anonymous
There are plans to build a new gym adjacent to the school. Read the entire thread. |
Anonymous
What do they currently do? |
Anonymous
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More information about the addition/gym:
http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=9UXKW74B7DE1 |
Anonymous
| It seems to me like the school was built to accommodate the low income immigrants. In Montgomery County they want to build such schools for the very wealthy (because only they can afford the ultra expensive new homes) so the concept is marketed as urban and chic! |
Anonymous
It would be the same if an "urban style" school gets built in Arlington or Tysons. It's no secret that most of the students attending Bailey's now are from low-income households. |
Anonymous
The school was built to alleviate overcrowding at Bailey's. The site wasn't chosen because the kids were low income. The school is very nice inside, and looks a lot nicer than some of the regular schools I've been in. If the playground and gym issues are resolved, it will be a great facility. I find it funny that people are so snobby towards the concept because it happened to have been mplemented in a school with low income kids. This is similar to how school uniforms are viewed. In private schools uniforms are perfectly acceptable, but in public schools there is a huge stigma because they are usually associated with low income schools. I don't care what MoCo does because I don't live there, it's just interesting to see the biases based on where the idea is being pulled from. |
Anonymous
I live nearby - and posted previously. If I am "snobby" for finding grave issues with a school with an expected student body of 1600 by 2017 and will probably rise further than that - well, then call me snobby. The facilities are great until they have to put modular classrooms on the new outdoor facility due to further overcrowding, and then we are back to square one. FCPS is just pissing in the wind with building this new building. It is not feasible to take over all office and tax-generating businesses in the area for schools and social services. Something else has to be done. |
Anonymous
They have "exercise rooms". The windows have strong screens across them to keep thrown balls from breaking them. |
Anonymous
Just to be clear, the projections are that Bailey's and Bailey's Upper combined will have an enrollment of around 1500 students in 2017. You can call it one school, but it's two facilities. If they get to the point where Bailey's Upper is above-capacity, there are other schools in the Stuart pyramid, Beech Tree and Belvedere, projected to be under-capacity by 2017 and through 2019. I'm not aware of plans to convert other tax-generating buildings into schools and social services buildings. The Bailey's Upper building had been sitting empty without tenants when FCPS bought it. |
Anonymous
It sounds more like a prison to me. |
Anonymous
Because rent is a "bit" lower, not a "lot" lower, but in the other areas, they're not going to let 4 families in an apartment slide. (It isn't 2 families to an apartment, it is routinely 3+, sometimes as many as 13-15 people per apartment.) And because it is a majority of immigrant, non-English speakers from the same areas who feel comfortable with one another and the community they've built. Many of these people have an elementary education if they have an education at all, so while yes, they may feel they're being "well served" by Bailey's, but that's doesn't really correlate to whether they are or not when you are talking about parents whose only comparison is schools in Central America and who often don't even know the name of the school their kids attend. (And if you think I'm BSing, I'm not, I am a social worker for the county and this a real, ongoing problem in that community.) |
Anonymous
The overcrowding issue is a separate issue than the structure of the building. PP suggested the type of building was selected because it would house low income kids, and that a similar concept may not work will with a higher SES demographic. That's not the case. Done properly it can be a great option. As another PP pointed out, your numbers on Bailey's is for both upper and lower. Those numbers have nothing to do with the type of building. |
Anonymous
Fcps has done a lousy job of estimating number of students living in the apartments near Baileys crossroad in part because many of the families are doubled or even tripled up in these apartments and occupancy laws are not strictly enforced. so that has led to major overcrowding at Baileys and also Glen Forest. At the same time there just wasn't land for sale in the vicinity of failing to build a traditional one or two story school. |
Anonymous
| I'm confused about this thread. I thought Bailey's was a magnet school for arts and sciences. We have a friend who's sending their kid there next year, and I remember getting a flyer in our Take Home Tuesday packet about magnet school applications, and Baileys was one of the schools listed. Is the Bailey's ES discussed in this thread a different school? |
Anonymous
It's the same school. There is a magnet program, but it's also a school for those living in boundary. IMO the magnet program is overrated. It also has an immersion program. Way to much going on in a school with a large high need population. |