SPLIT FCPC FROM VA PUBLIC SCHOOLS?

[Anonymous]

PP just explained why it doesn’t.

[Anonymous]

I like having it all together. It makes it easier to keep abreast of what is happened across the region without feeling like you are an interloper.

[Anonymous]

FAirfax s such a huge district that it always has and always will overwhelm the board. Covid/DL didn’t make this a new phenomenon. I’d welcome APS being with the other districts if Fairfax was removed. I don’t find it at all odd. Isn’t FAIrfax PS the largest in the whole country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like having it all together. It makes it easier to keep abreast of what is happened across the region without feeling like you are an interloper.

Agree.

Together just makes so much more sense.

This whole covid thing will eventually pass, and the forum will go back to normal which means more balanced (Actually, like stated above, under normal circumstances, Arlington has a far greater proportion of posts related to size than any of the other districts, including fcps.)

It is helpful to have everything together, particularly for those who are moving into the area and trying to learn about the different districts or select a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be odd to have APS in the same forum as LCPS and PWCPS, but not FCPS.

People considering North Arlington schools often are considering schools in McLean, Vienna and Falls Church as well. People considering schools in South Arlington often are also considering schools in Alexandria, Falls Church and Annandale. People considering schools in western Fairfax often are also considering schools in eastern Loudoun and western Prince William. I’d suspect you’ll end up with posters posting in multiple forums or making arbitrary decisions about which forum to post in.

I suspect the main impetus for separate forums is coming from Arlington posters who don’t like the volume of recent Fairfax threads, but there have been periods when the most active threads were all about APS.

I agree with this completely. The proposal to split into r
Fcps and non-fcps sounds like an arlington-centric world view. Anyone in western fairfax would want keep the loudoun connection and wouldn't want to go to 2+ places to look for the same issues.

Perhaps an EAST-WEST split would be better - mclean/falls church/Arlington versus everyone west of that line

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like having it all together. It makes it easier to keep abreast of what is happened across the region without feeling like you are an interloper.

Agree.

Together just makes so much more sense.

This whole covid thing will eventually pass, and the forum will go back to normal which means more balanced (Actually, like stated above, under normal circumstances, Arlington has a far greater proportion of posts related to size than any of the other districts, including fcps.)

It is helpful to have everything together, particularly for those who are moving into the area and trying to learn about the different districts or select a school.

On that note, I often see minority posters, particularly African American parents, who will put a wide net out when they are looking for schools. They ask about the whole region when they are searching for schools for a cohort of high achieving kods, and not just fcps or aps. So many patents will post a search such as "We are looking at Langley, McLean or Wakefield" of "Falls Curch City or FCPS?"

Parents new to the area want to have all the info easily accessible in one place, rather than hopping between forums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like having it all together. It makes it easier to keep abreast of what is happened across the region without feeling like you are an interloper.

Agree.

Together just makes so much more sense.

This whole covid thing will eventually pass, and the forum will go back to normal which means more balanced (Actually, like stated above, under normal circumstances, Arlington has a far greater proportion of posts related to size than any of the other districts, including fcps.)

It is helpful to have everything together, particularly for those who are moving into the area and trying to learn about the different districts or select a school.

This. Encourage posters to use their school district acronym when posting a topic -- this will solve a lot of problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like having it all together. It makes it easier to keep abreast of what is happened across the region without feeling like you are an interloper.

Agree.

Together just makes so much more sense.

This whole covid thing will eventually pass, and the forum will go back to normal which means more balanced (Actually, like stated above, under normal circumstances, Arlington has a far greater proportion of posts related to size than any of the other districts, including fcps.)

It is helpful to have everything together, particularly for those who are moving into the area and trying to learn about the different districts or select a school.

On that note, I often see minority posters, particularly African American parents, who will put a wide net out when they are looking for schools. They ask about the whole region when they are searching for schools for a cohort of high achieving kods, and not just fcps or aps. So many patents will post a search such as "We are looking at Langley, McLean or Wakefield" of "Falls Curch City or FCPS?"

Parents new to the area want to have all the info easily accessible in one place, rather than hopping between forums.

Or "Reston, Chantilly or Ashburn?"

There is constant overlap between districts.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I think it would be very helpful 

[Anonymous]

^^^ And the overlap is never a person comparing Loudon County Schools vs Arlington Schools, or Falls Church city schools vs Prince William County schools.

The common comparison is those distritcts with a specific area of Fairfax County public schools.

Fairfax county geographically sits in the middle of all of those smaller districts so when a poster is comparing schools between districts it will be one of the others with a specific part of fcps.

[Anonymous]

I like it together

[Anonymous]

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

Why would you do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Why would you do that?

NP- because Fairfax takes over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a good idea - FCPS is one of the biggest school districts in the country

+1

[Anonymous]

188,000 students in Fairfax. Yes, please separate the forums.