Are the FCPS schools vastly superior than LCPS?

[Anonymous]

Where do you work? I would try to find a house closer to your work. Of your 2 choices, I would pick Oakton.

[Anonymous]

LCPS has a much smaller population, and thus they have more resources for each school. Also half of the high schools were built in the last 10 years, making them newer. Also half of loudoun county is rural cow pastures and the countryside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LCPS has a much smaller population, and thus they have more resources for each school. Also half of the high schools were built in the last 10 years, making them newer. Also half of loudoun county is rural cow pastures and the countryside.

Having a smaller population doesn’t translate into more resources per student.

[Anonymous]

Loudoun is too right-wing:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/us/loudoun-county-school-board-meeting/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you work? I would try to find a house closer to your work. Of your 2 choices, I would pick Oakton.

commute would be to Vienna

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do you work? I would try to find a house closer to your work. Of your 2 choices, I would pick Oakton.

commute would be to Vienna

Why not Vienna or McLean then?

You will get more house in Ashburn. I personally would want a short commute and be closer to DC, Tyson’s, Arlington. McLean is expensive. I would focus on Vienna or Oakton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LCPS has a much smaller population, and thus they have more resources for each school. Also half of the high schools were built in the last 10 years, making them newer. Also half of loudoun county is rural cow pastures and the countryside.

They don't have more resources. They've had to hire so many teachers so quickly that we are impressive with the number of problem teachers we have. Yes, we have great dedicated teachers but because of the difficulty Loudoun had in hiring for decades, we have a good number who should have never been hired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun is too right-wing:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/us/loudoun-county-school-board-meeting/index.html

It really isn't. The rwnjs are just more rabid and loud. They are a small group. Loudoun has gone blue.

[Anonymous]

Make your housing decision based on the fact that you should be sending you kids to a parochial or private school. Neither FCPS or LCPS are on an upward trajectory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make your housing decision based on the fact that you should be sending you kids to a parochial or private school. Neither FCPS or LCPS are on an upward trajectory.

Will any public school district ever be on an upward trajectory ever again? If you judge schools by scores only then public school ratings can only go down in the long run.

Seemingly the requirement for a "good school" is an area that is newly up-and-coming so as to attract a very highly educated workforce very quickly, but this only lasts for a generation or two. Once the area is developed too densely with many retail and food service jobs, kids in poverty from the blue collar parents working those jobs bring down the reputation.

If this is your perspective then the DMV has seen it's golden years. We see this effect in the booming Raleigh Research Triangle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun is too right-wing:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/us/loudoun-county-school-board-meeting/index.html

The guy arrested for disorderly conduct at that meeting was Scott Smith. His daughter was raped in the girls' bathroom by a boy who was transferred to another school, where he raped another girl. The arrest was one of the examples cited in a letter sent by the National School Board Association requesting that such protests be investigated for domestic terrorism by the feds.

Loudoun has enough right-wing inhabitants that whistles were blown and a school board member was forced out, largely due to LCPS's cover-up. This wouldn't happen in Fairfax, where the school board is comfortably safe from any challenges to their right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Make your housing decision based on the fact that you should be sending you kids to a parochial or private school. Neither FCPS or LCPS are on an upward trajectory.

Will any public school district ever be on an upward trajectory ever again? If you judge schools by scores only then public school ratings can only go down in the long run.

Seemingly the requirement for a "good school" is an area that is newly up-and-coming so as to attract a very highly educated workforce very quickly, but this only lasts for a generation or two. Once the area is developed too densely with many retail and food service jobs, kids in poverty from the blue collar parents working those jobs bring down the reputation.

If this is your perspective then the DMV has seen it's golden years. We see this effect in the booming Raleigh Research Triangle.

This is an interesting post and aligns with what I've seen with the area where I grew up (it was a burgeoning tech area then and now is much more mature and the schools are more burdened) and some other areas where family members live. Thank you for this.

Small college towns might at one time have been insulated from this but many small colleges are really struggling right now and have very uncertain futures.

[Anonymous]

FCPS likes to hype themselves, we actually moved to Loudon as we were unhappy with elementary in FCPS

[Anonymous]

Ha, no. If we were doing this again, we would move to a LCPS area so quickly, even with the extra commute.

This school board is insane and the current boundary issue is driving me out of my mind.

Run away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS likes to hype themselves, we actually moved to Loudon as we were unhappy with elementary in FCPS

And never learned how to spell the county’s name?

Net gain for Fairfax and FCPS.