Herndon high - what’s going on?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In Herndon, this year everyone with parents loud enough will get an A. Principal just announced last Monday (a week ago) that anyone can retake any standard without risk of lowering their grade. No deadlines but last day of school. As many retakes as they want. Teachers were notified over email the night before.

Will these loud parents be taking the retakes? I don’t get how the parents have anything to do with the grade.

Loud parents made this ridiculous development happen. That is how.

Good for them. SBG is a disgrace. The teachers should have rallied with the parents.

PP knows nothing about HHS. Probably written by someone who wants to expand McLean or avoid POSSIBLE rezoning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In Herndon, this year everyone with parents loud enough will get an A. Principal just announced last Monday (a week ago) that anyone can retake any standard without risk of lowering their grade. No deadlines but last day of school. As many retakes as they want. Teachers were notified over email the night before.

Will these loud parents be taking the retakes? I don’t get how the parents have anything to do with the grade.

Loud parents made this ridiculous development happen. That is how.

Good for them. SBG is a disgrace. The teachers should have rallied with the parents.

10000000

It is not SBG that is bad, it is how it had been implemented in FCPS schools. What had been done in Herndon is really bad.

This 10000%. The principal needs to go. The faculty were in near revolt before this and now it is worse. Parents are unhappy. Not just the UMC / MC parents. They are pretty unified on this and other issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Long overdue to redraw HHS boundary. Need to take in more Langley kids.

+10000

I know a family that lives in the shadow of Herndon High School and are zoned for Langley, 12 miles away. Ridiculous what these snobs get away with.

When Great Falls west of Springvale was moved to Langley in 1994, Herndon was overcrowded, Langley had capacity, and there was a certain logic for everything off Georgetown Pike going to the same school.

I do understand some of the small pockets of Herndon and Reston on the other side of Route 7 had earlier School Board members doing favors for them to get them into Langley.

It can be reversed now if enrollment projections are trending in the opposite direction and Herndon now has extra capacity, but it wasn’t like Forestville as a whole schemed 30 years ago to get out of Herndon, as much as you might like to vilify Great Falls.

Alternatively, they could add capacity to McLean, leave Langley alone, and use the extra capacity at Herndon to absorb growth near the new Metro stations currently zoned to Westfield.

Move this to the boundary thread.

[Anonymous]

Is South Lakes still open to transfer? IB transfer would be the easiest way to get out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sister went there 14 years ago. She got a lot of opportunities while there, including getting an internship with John Kerry. She also got into an ivy league and so did her friend. She has a very successful career. 14 years ago the school was rated at 2/10. The average test scores were very low. However, that just made it easier for the good kids to stand out and get into great colleges.

It has been the same way for a long time. If you live in this pyramid, you know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Long overdue to redraw HHS boundary. Need to take in more Langley kids.

+10000

I know a family that lives in the shadow of Herndon High School and are zoned for Langley, 12 miles away. Ridiculous what these snobs get away with.

OMG. That is not a solution!!!! Whether they are part of HHS or not will not change what the principal or FCPS is doing. By the way, FCPS is aware and is condoning what’s happening.

It’s not the only solution but it is a good solution that makes perfect sense. I have commuted Georgetown pike from rt 7 to the beltway for 8years and I can tell you that there is a lot of traffic. It makes no sense for kids to commute 12 miles to school when they live a mile from Herndon High.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In Herndon, this year everyone with parents loud enough will get an A. Principal just announced last Monday (a week ago) that anyone can retake any standard without risk of lowering their grade. No deadlines but last day of school. As many retakes as they want. Teachers were notified over email the night before.

Will these loud parents be taking the retakes? I don’t get how the parents have anything to do with the grade.

Loud parents made this ridiculous development happen. That is how.

Good for them. SBG is a disgrace. The teachers should have rallied with the parents.

10000000

It is not SBG that is bad, it is how it had been implemented in FCPS schools. What had been done in Herndon is really bad.

This 10000%. The principal needs to go. The faculty were in near revolt before this and now it is worse. Parents are unhappy. Not just the UMC / MC parents. They are pretty unified on this and other issues.

What is UMC/MC parents?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Wow this is scary. So what can be done at this point? Will the principal be fired or asked to move on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Long overdue to redraw HHS boundary. Need to take in more Langley kids.

+10000

I know a family that lives in the shadow of Herndon High School and are zoned for Langley, 12 miles away. Ridiculous what these snobs get away with.

OMG. That is not a solution!!!! Whether they are part of HHS or not will not change what the principal or FCPS is doing. By the way, FCPS is aware and is condoning what’s happening.

It’s not the only solution but it is a good solution that makes perfect sense. I have commuted Georgetown pike from rt 7 to the beltway for 8years and I can tell you that there is a lot of traffic. It makes no sense for kids to commute 12 miles to school when they live a mile from Herndon High.

It also makes no sense to randomly insert your opinion on redistricting in this thread. Especially when you distort and lie because you think your neighbors are “snobs”. Literally no one on this thread cares about your opinion. Go to the boundary thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Long overdue to redraw HHS boundary. Need to take in more Langley kids.

+10000

I know a family that lives in the shadow of Herndon High School and are zoned for Langley, 12 miles away. Ridiculous what these snobs get away with.

OMG. That is not a solution!!!! Whether they are part of HHS or not will not change what the principal or FCPS is doing. By the way, FCPS is aware and is condoning what’s happening.

It’s not the only solution but it is a good solution that makes perfect sense. I have commuted Georgetown pike from rt 7 to the beltway for 8years and I can tell you that there is a lot of traffic. It makes no sense for kids to commute 12 miles to school when they live a mile from Herndon High.

It also makes no sense to randomly insert your opinion on redistricting in this thread. Especially when you distort and lie because you think your neighbors are “snobs”. Literally no one on this thread cares about your opinion. Go to the boundary thread.

Agreed. This is a major hijacking. Reported.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is South Lakes still open to transfer? IB transfer would be the easiest way to get out.

No way, man! Don't crowd up South Lakes. It's working on a decent reputation now and doesn't need to become overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is South Lakes still open to transfer? IB transfer would be the easiest way to get out.

No way, man! Don't crowd up South Lakes. It's working on a decent reputation now and doesn't need to become overcrowded.

Come on, man! South Lakes’ reputation went up partly because decent kids from Herndon transferred to SLHS.

One man’s loss is another man’s gain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is it fair to Herndon students who actually did learn the material by attending classes and completing assigned work so that they passed the first test and will actually retain the skills. Unlike students who passed version D of the same test, after seeing it three times in a row. It is not fair. Herndon teacher.

Herndon teacher, what more can you share? This is the OP and I’m really worried now.

[Anonymous]

A good number of kids transer from Herndon to SLHS each year. IB and Japanese are the two reasons given.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is it fair to Herndon students who actually did learn the material by attending classes and completing assigned work so that they passed the first test and will actually retain the skills. Unlike students who passed version D of the same test, after seeing it three times in a row. It is not fair. Herndon teacher.

The idea is that grading, in general, creates disparity or in more relevant terms inequities. Ultimately, I think proponents of SBG systems and systems like it would prefer no grades at all; it should be about whether the student learned the material. Performance-based evaluation, e.g., who learned what faster or better, is unnecessary.

Of course, this leads to questions about what happens after high school, specifically with college admissions and even the workforce. If everyone is equal, then the sky is limit... lol.

"A new study has found that patients of newly trained doctors tend to have higher survival rates if the doctor scored highly on board certification exams. Tests, it turns out, might not be racist, but actually quite good predictors of competence." - The Free Press, https://hms.harvard.edu/news/resident-physicians-exam-scores-tied-patient-survival?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email (Harvard Medical School)

I mean tests are ok, but we should look at decolonizing science and turn to other ways of knowing.