FCPS High School Poverty and Enrollment

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Anonymous wrote:I heard 1/2 of the 6th grade class from Fort Belvoir Upper is going to Hayfield for 7th instead of their neighborhood school, Whitman. There’s a state law in Virginia that allows students residing in military housing on a military installation to have school choice.

Why bother improving Whitman or Mount Vernon when you can just pander to military families?

Maybe, if you would complain to your Board members and vote for someone who believes in improving academics over social issues, you would not be bellyaching.

What a lack of gratitude you have for military families. I don't understand why you want them at your school.

When someone repearedly posts something completely outrageous and controversial like the qnti military person, it is safe to assume they are just an internet troll and not an actual FCPS parent.

That's a bizarre take. An "anti-military" post might complain about unjustified US military interventions around the globe, sexual abuse in the armed forces, or the poor treatment of veterans in VA hospitals.

Pointing out that one group of Americans (or Virginia residents) shouldn't have special privileges when it comes to selecting public schools isn't anti-military. The fact that you'd suggest otherwise strongly suggests that you're the troll here.

Anyone that jealous of the "special privileges" of the military that they are posting for 10 pages about it on a public message board, comprising the majority of the posts on those pages if either a bore anti-military troll, and/or welcome to enlist so they can take part in all of the "special privileges that military families experience, such as deployments, multiple moves, wars, injuries, food stamps, and more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard 1/2 of the 6th grade class from Fort Belvoir Upper is going to Hayfield for 7th instead of their neighborhood school, Whitman. There’s a state law in Virginia that allows students residing in military housing on a military installation to have school choice.

Why bother improving Whitman or Mount Vernon when you can just pander to military families?

Maybe, if you would complain to your Board members and vote for someone who believes in improving academics over social issues, you would not be bellyaching.

What a lack of gratitude you have for military families. I don't understand why you want them at your school.

When someone repearedly posts something completely outrageous and controversial like the qnti military person, it is safe to assume they are just an internet troll and not an actual FCPS parent.

That's a bizarre take. An "anti-military" post might complain about unjustified US military interventions around the globe, sexual abuse in the armed forces, or the poor treatment of veterans in VA hospitals.

Pointing out that one group of Americans (or Virginia residents) shouldn't have special privileges when it comes to selecting public schools isn't anti-military. The fact that you'd suggest otherwise strongly suggests that you're the troll here.

Anyone that jealous of the "special privileges" of the military that they are posting for 10 pages about it on a public message board, comprising the majority of the posts on those pages if either a bore anti-military troll, and/or welcome to enlist so they can take part in all of the "special privileges that military families experience, such as deployments, multiple moves, wars, injuries, food stamps, and more.

You're really quite insufferable. One can respect the military and still think special privileges of this nature are unwarranted and bad public policy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard 1/2 of the 6th grade class from Fort Belvoir Upper is going to Hayfield for 7th instead of their neighborhood school, Whitman. There’s a state law in Virginia that allows students residing in military housing on a military installation to have school choice.

Why bother improving Whitman or Mount Vernon when you can just pander to military families?

Maybe, if you would complain to your Board members and vote for someone who believes in improving academics over social issues, you would not be bellyaching.

What a lack of gratitude you have for military families. I don't understand why you want them at your school.

When someone repearedly posts something completely outrageous and controversial like the qnti military person, it is safe to assume they are just an internet troll and not an actual FCPS parent.

That's a bizarre take. An "anti-military" post might complain about unjustified US military interventions around the globe, sexual abuse in the armed forces, or the poor treatment of veterans in VA hospitals.

Pointing out that one group of Americans (or Virginia residents) shouldn't have special privileges when it comes to selecting public schools isn't anti-military. The fact that you'd suggest otherwise strongly suggests that you're the troll here.

Resenting a privilege which has logical reasoning behind it, is not "special." Especially, when so many sacrifices are made on these families.

[Anonymous]

This is not an inclusive policy and does nothing for service members without children. I will not allow you to leave our non-parental military personnel as second class citizens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard 1/2 of the 6th grade class from Fort Belvoir Upper is going to Hayfield for 7th instead of their neighborhood school, Whitman. There’s a state law in Virginia that allows students residing in military housing on a military installation to have school choice.

Why bother improving Whitman or Mount Vernon when you can just pander to military families?

Maybe, if you would complain to your Board members and vote for someone who believes in improving academics over social issues, you would not be bellyaching.

What a lack of gratitude you have for military families. I don't understand why you want them at your school.

When someone repearedly posts something completely outrageous and controversial like the qnti military person, it is safe to assume they are just an internet troll and not an actual FCPS parent.

That's a bizarre take. An "anti-military" post might complain about unjustified US military interventions around the globe, sexual abuse in the armed forces, or the poor treatment of veterans in VA hospitals.

Pointing out that one group of Americans (or Virginia residents) shouldn't have special privileges when it comes to selecting public schools isn't anti-military. The fact that you'd suggest otherwise strongly suggests that you're the troll here.

Resenting a privilege which has logical reasoning behind it, is not "special." Especially, when so many sacrifices are made on these families.

That doesn't sound grounded in anything but circular logic (i.e., military families should never give up any special privileges because they are special).

Hopefully the law will change at some point. It's not right to burden some schools and leave others struggling just because someone wanted to brown-nose the military.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard 1/2 of the 6th grade class from Fort Belvoir Upper is going to Hayfield for 7th instead of their neighborhood school, Whitman. There’s a state law in Virginia that allows students residing in military housing on a military installation to have school choice.

Why bother improving Whitman or Mount Vernon when you can just pander to military families?

Maybe, if you would complain to your Board members and vote for someone who believes in improving academics over social issues, you would not be bellyaching.

What a lack of gratitude you have for military families. I don't understand why you want them at your school.

When someone repearedly posts something completely outrageous and controversial like the qnti military person, it is safe to assume they are just an internet troll and not an actual FCPS parent.

That's a bizarre take. An "anti-military" post might complain about unjustified US military interventions around the globe, sexual abuse in the armed forces, or the poor treatment of veterans in VA hospitals.

Pointing out that one group of Americans (or Virginia residents) shouldn't have special privileges when it comes to selecting public schools isn't anti-military. The fact that you'd suggest otherwise strongly suggests that you're the troll here.

Resenting a privilege which has logical reasoning behind it, is not "special." Especially, when so many sacrifices are made on these families.

That doesn't sound grounded in anything but circular logic (i.e., military families should never give up any special privileges because they are special).

Hopefully the law will change at some point. It's not right to burden some schools and leave others struggling just because someone wanted to brown-nose the military.

Again. This policy is not the cause of schools struggling. You are talking about a very tiny group of students. And, it is not burdening schools.

Schools are struggling because our SB and administrators are demanding a "one size fits all" policy when some students have different needs. Keeping IB at struggling schools is one example.

[Anonymous]

Ignore the troll

No way are they a FCPS parent. They wandered in from recent topics.

[Anonymous]

Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

Curious. I live in Western Fairfax and am not very familiar with that area--but why would you choose Lewis to be the IB school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

Curious. I live in Western Fairfax and am not very familiar with that area--but why would you choose Lewis to be the IB school?

Not PP but the argument is probably two-fold.

First, among the six HS in southeastern Fairfax with IB, Lewis is centrally located - further east than Robinson, further south than Annandale and Justice, and further west than Edison and Mount Vernon.

Second, Lewis has the lowest enrollment of any HS in the county, so could absorb the most students coming from other pyramids if they wanted IB.

The counter-arguments would be that, if IB doesn’t work for most students at those schools, it would continue to leave the students for whom Lewis is their base school without a better option (unless they are reassigned to other schools and Lewis truly became an IB-only magnet, which would require a number of boundary changes).

I do know that, before Jefferson became TJHSST, FCPS was considering closing one of Annandale, Jefferson, and Stuart due to declining enrollments. The initial plan was to close Jefferson because it was between Annandale and Stuart and had the lowest enrollment and then someone came up with the idea to turn it into a STEM magnet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

Curious. I live in Western Fairfax and am not very familiar with that area--but why would you choose Lewis to be the IB school?

I live in the area and would either find my kids an obscure language that MVHS doesn’t offer or I’d pay for Ireton if the AP option to transfer was ever removed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

Curious. I live in Western Fairfax and am not very familiar with that area--but why would you choose Lewis to be the IB school?

I live in the area and would either find my kids an obscure language that MVHS doesn’t offer or I’d pay for Ireton if the AP option to transfer was ever removed

It’s better that you incur those out-of-pocket costs than that everyone else keep footing the bill for ineffective IB programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

Curious. I live in Western Fairfax and am not very familiar with that area--but why would you choose Lewis to be the IB school?

I live in the area and would either find my kids an obscure language that MVHS doesn’t offer or I’d pay for Ireton if the AP option to transfer was ever removed

It’s better that you incur those out-of-pocket costs than that everyone else keep footing the bill for ineffective IB programs.

Even better would be to spread poverty across the county, but this is where we are

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

Curious. I live in Western Fairfax and am not very familiar with that area--but why would you choose Lewis to be the IB school?

I live in the area and would either find my kids an obscure language that MVHS doesn’t offer or I’d pay for Ireton if the AP option to transfer was ever removed

It’s better that you incur those out-of-pocket costs than that everyone else keep footing the bill for ineffective IB programs.

Even better would be to spread poverty across the county, but this is where we are

We have county leadership more committed to spreading poverty than eliminating it, so be careful what you wish for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back to the actual topic of this thread, I agree that FCPS really needs to reassess concentrating expensive, unpopular IB in the lowest performing schools in one part of the county.

FCPS could easily eliminate IB at most of those schools, leaving Lewis as an IB magnet for anyone in that half of the county who wants IB to attend.

This would save a ton of money, strengthen IB as a whole, significantly improve Lewis' test scores and improve the other schools losing kids to AP schools.

Curious. I live in Western Fairfax and am not very familiar with that area--but why would you choose Lewis to be the IB school?

I live in the area and would either find my kids an obscure language that MVHS doesn’t offer or I’d pay for Ireton if the AP option to transfer was ever removed

It’s better that you incur those out-of-pocket costs than that everyone else keep footing the bill for ineffective IB programs.

Even better would be to spread poverty across the county, but this is where we are

We have county leadership more committed to spreading poverty than eliminating it, so be careful what you wish for.

Remind me when rt7 looks anything like rt1