US News 2021 Virginia High School Rankings (FCPS)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Florida has 16 schools in the top 150.
California has 17
Arizona has 10
Texas has 23

Virginia has only 1

This isn't a valid comparison - state size varies.

Virginia is larger than Az

And soon we might have zero.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

Not if you can't afford the rent or mortgage costs to live in those areas. Nice try. It's not like it's open to everyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

It shouldn't be.

The focus on these artificial hierarchies and reifying them with our attention and emotional energy is a major part of the problem in our western patriarchal capitalist construct.

We need to embrace students and communities wherever and whoever they are without defining them according to how they are ranked in a publication owned by a far off billionaire. Their value is not found on a list.

Viva la revolucion, baby.

Well, by the time TJ's ratings decline due to FCPS's repudiation of merit-based admissions in favor of soft quotas, it will probably be Angela Davis HS.

What's wrong with Angela Davis HS. Sounds good to me.

[Anonymous]

Huh. Interesting that Marshall and Chantilly bumped Madison and Oakton out of the top 5 base schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

You mean....richest schools. OK, congrats?

If it's the richest schools, why don't Alexandria and Arlington rank high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

Not if you can't afford the rent or mortgage costs to live in those areas. Nice try. It's not like it's open to everyone.

The mortgage costs are high because the schools are better and more people are pushing to live in those boundaries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many IB schools at the bottom.

Isn’t Marshall IB?

Yes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many IB schools at the bottom.

Ummm, if you can’t see that it’s about socio-economics, you’re not very bright. It’s segregation 2021.

Not only is Marshall the only IB school in the top 10 in FCPS, but it has the highest percentage of socioeconomic disadvantaged students in the top 10. Not bad for #4. They must be doing something right over there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Florida has 16 schools in the top 150.
California has 17
Arizona has 10
Texas has 23

Virginia has only 1

This isn't a valid comparison - state size varies.

This is a valid comparison by the same US news

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/articles/how-states-compare

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TJ is also the #1 school in the nation.

Once again, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been named the No. 1 high school in the U.S.

https://wtop.com/local/2021/04/several-local-high-schools-rank-as-some-of-the-best-in-the-nation/

FCPS and and VDOE will take care of that! But she’s here to drag TJ down then to find other ways to help kids in kindergarten through eight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:TJ is also the #1 school in the nation.

Once again, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been named the No. 1 high school in the U.S.

https://wtop.com/local/2021/04/several-local-high-schools-rank-as-some-of-the-best-in-the-nation/

FCPS and and VDOE will take care of that! But she’s here to drag TJ down then to find other ways to help kids in kindergarten through eight.

Odd autocorrect! Much better to drag TJ down than to ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

You mean....richest schools. OK, congrats?

If it's the richest schools, why don't Alexandria and Arlington rank high?

Because neither groups the poors together in their own high schools as efficiently as FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

You mean....richest schools. OK, congrats?

If it's the richest schools, why don't Alexandria and Arlington rank high?

Because neither groups the poors together in their own high schools as efficiently as FCPS

I know it’s time to leave a thread when this poster comes in talking about “the poors”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

It shouldn't be.

The focus on these artificial hierarchies and reifying them with our attention and emotional energy is a major part of the problem in our western patriarchal capitalist construct.

We need to embrace students and communities wherever and whoever they are without defining them according to how they are ranked in a publication owned by a far off billionaire. Their value is not found on a list.

It's a positive feedback loop.

The more the wealthy areas are "highly ranked", the more the wealthy people will segregate themselves into those wealthy areas.

How those with more material wealth (real wealth is not measured by bank accounts and credit scores) make their decisions on where they should live is not a reflection on the inherent worth of the people who live in and around our various school communities.

Of course they do. UMC/rich people like to stick together.

And of course bank accounts matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish they would exclude the application schools. I would rather see a ranking of public schools that take what ever student shows up at their door and rank the cherry picking schools in a different category.

Exactly. FCPS makes sure to segregate at every turn so that they can pat themselves on the back for having top schools. Meanwhile the neighboring high schools have kids who are barely literate. It’s disgusting.

[b]FCPS isn’t patting itself on the back about TJ. It is criticizing it and insulting its students. They are not proud of those kids at al.[b]

THIS.

Such a messed up school system. They’ve got a nationally known, number 1 magnet in the country and instead of recognizing the students that make the school, they basically call them too Asian, robots, and cheaters.

They’ve worked harder during this pandemic to change the demographic of TJ, then they have at getting ALL county students back in school.

-parent of kids with learning disabilities tired of FCPS and their ‘equity theater’.