SPLIT FCPC FROM VA PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS is dominating right now since they shocked everyone this week. I just went back to a few random pages in the 400s and there were a mix of topics. I don’t think right now is a good time to determine if they should be their own forum. Often questions are asked comparing FCPS to APS, ACPS or Loudoun.

I agree with this.

Maybe you call them 1) FCPS Schools 2) TJ 3) Other non FCPS VA Public Schools (eg Arlington, Loudoun, Falls Church)

I realize TJ is a FCPS school but it deserves its own board unless you want rename AAP: AAP/TJ but I think it is better for TJ to have its own board.

A whole forum just for one school? Totally unnecessary. It is find in the AAP forum. Most people will put TJ in the title of the post so it's easy to know which threads in the AAP forum relates to TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a good idea

I agree.

[Anonymous]

Split FCPS and move TJ discussion to the AAP forum.

[Anonymous]

Totally support an FCPS split! It would make it so much easier to find non-FCPS content!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have FCPS kids, so I’m not bothered, but I can see it being hard to filter out FCPS as an APS, FCCPS, LCPS, etc parent.

If you create a separate FCPS forum, consider how FCPS dominates the AAP forum. I realize it is for advanced academics elsewhere but the term AAP is used only in FCPS (I think). I hate having AAP in that title, because AAP has four levels of which Level IV (maybe Level III) is really discussed. The other three levels fall into the Gen Ed category. Maybe the forum name could be a little less FCPS centered.

I mean, the forum listing says that AAP the forum _IS_ primarily intended for the FCPS program... and yes, it is focused on the Level IV programs (local or center) colloquially referred to as "AAP" (even though technically AAP covers other levels). If anything if there's confusion about this I'd either make it more FCPS-centered... like "AAP Level IV" forum or similar... or less FCPS-centered like "Programs for Academically Advanced Students".

I'm indifferent about splitting out the FCPS forum... preference would be that we just establish a standard that any threads/topics that are district-specific have the district acronym as the first element of the thread title... e.g.:

[FCPS] Which FCPS schools may need name changes?
[APS] School Boundary Study
Governor Northam announces Phase 3 Guidance
[FCPS] McLean/Langley Boundary Adjustment

PP here — Well if AAP is kept in the title, I agree it should say AAP Level 4. However, that forum is for advanced academic programs / honors (also known by other names) in other districts. It’s a catch all for DC, VA and MD schools programs. Without a name change, it looks like there are two FCPS forums (one gen ed and one for AAP (Level 4)) to me. And remember to parents of younger kids and people new to FCPS, FCPS advertises how it has this great four level system, so technically all FCPS kids are AAP.

I agree with others that if we all started threads with the school district abbreviations, we wouldn’t need another forum, but you know that will take some time and people will still flub it.

[Anonymous]

FCPS vote. Find it kind of annoying when people do not list their county as I sort of assume it is FCPS by default.

[Anonymous]

Keep it all in one VA fora. We're not in FCPS, and I find it useful to have one place to look at what local districts are doing. If it's something so FCPS-specific that it's entirely irrelevant, I just skip it.

[Anonymous]

It would be interesting to know how the vote breaks down for FCPS vs non-FCPS posters. FTR, I’m 19:40, non-FCPS parent who favors the split.

[jsteele]

I am also open for suggestions for a new name for the AAP forum. That forum was created due to user request when AAP discussions were dominating the VA Public Schools forum. I don't know anything about Virginia schools so I don't know what other counties call their programs (other than I think Alexandria calls their TAG since that sometimes gets mixed up with DC TAG which is something entirely different).

[Anonymous]

Yes to a separate FCPS forum.

[Anonymous]

I think that 80% of the conversations here are typically about FCPS. Arlington comes in second, followed at a distance by Loudon, but it is rare to see anything about Falls Church City, Alexandria, Prince William, Manassas, etc.

I think it’s overwhelming right now, but it’s no different than 99% of the threads on the health and medicine board being about covid since March. It will calm back down eventually.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jeff.

Please consider this: let’s say that you don’t split FCPS into its own page. What will the Virginia Public page-count be in ten or twelve months? Will anyone be able to use the search function? And what about advertisers - would they prefer to be able to target that market?

I think it’s good housekeeping to consider a split.

[Anonymous]

Try breaking out FCPS and APS - They both get enough traffic to stand alone and keep the discussions focused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that 80% of the conversations here are typically about FCPS. Arlington comes in second, followed at a distance by Loudon, but it is rare to see anything about Falls Church City, Alexandria, Prince William, Manassas, etc.

I think it’s overwhelming right now, but it’s no different than 99% of the threads on the health and medicine board being about covid since March. It will calm back down eventually.

Agree with this. Keep it all together. Especially since a lot of decisions are regional. Superintendents and administrators and teachers move between the adjacent systems, or live in one and work in another, so making the largest one separate seems unnecessary and counterproductive. We should all be aware of what adjacent districts are doing, especially the largest one, since the issue will likely crop up in the others, too. And having to go seek it out on a separate forum would make it more difficult.

[Anonymous]

I agree 110%. Split FCPS into it's own forum. Thank you!