FCPS High School prestige ranking

[Anonymous]

I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

Forgot to add, she is also a URM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marshall is tier 2 the rest is correct

So is Oakton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

I don’t see how my kids would receive a better education at a tier 4 school vs a tier 1 school.

Isn’t it great that we each get to choose what pyramid or kids attend!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

I don’t see how my kids would receive a better education at a tier 4 school vs a tier 1 school.

Isn’t it great that we each get to choose what pyramid or kids attend!

It is. We chose to live within our means, and saved enough to pay for our kids’ college tuitions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

I don’t see how my kids would receive a better education at a tier 4 school vs a tier 1 school.

Isn’t it great that we each get to choose what pyramid or kids attend!

It is. We chose to live within our means, and saved enough to pay for our kids’ college tuitions.

Great! We do too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

I don’t see how my kids would receive a better education at a tier 4 school vs a tier 1 school.

Isn’t it great that we each get to choose what pyramid or kids attend!

Actually, you only get to choose what pyramid you attend if you're wealthy enough to afford all areas within FCPS.

Lower-income people end up choosing a house or apartment where they can afford.

This thread is a sad demonstration of how wealth and privilege divide this region. There appears to be a sense that if one spends more money, one is entitled to a better education, and thus a better school. There also appears to be a strong sense of class segregation that's coming through on this thread, with a belief that if you're poor and going to a school in a lower-income area, you will never achieve the same things as a richer child.

There are some really ugly sentiments here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

I don’t see how my kids would receive a better education at a tier 4 school vs a tier 1 school.

Isn’t it great that we each get to choose what pyramid or kids attend!

Actually, you only get to choose what pyramid you attend if you're wealthy enough to afford all areas within FCPS.

Lower-income people end up choosing a house or apartment where they can afford.

This thread is a sad demonstration of how wealth and privilege divide this region. There appears to be a sense that if one spends more money, one is entitled to a better education, and thus a better school. There also appears to be a strong sense of class segregation that's coming through on this thread, with a belief that if you're poor and going to a school in a lower-income area, you will never achieve the same things as a richer child.

There are some really ugly sentiments here.

There are a LOT of wealthy people who intentionally purchased homes in lower performing school pyramids, not because they wanted to elevate those schools, but for much less noble reasons such as a larger, fancier house for less money per square foot, or a shorter commute. Those seem to be the ones posting on this forum regularly about wanting to rezone other people's kids into their schools from other neighborhoods, for less than noble reasons such as improving their own property values.

It definitely goes both ways.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t see how my kid would have received a better education at a top 1 tier, vs the bottom 4 tier school she attended. The curriculum is the same. Only dedicated students enroll in AP courses. Now, we would’t have been able to afford a bunch of extra tutoring with our income. They are doing just fine at UVA, with a double major (she got a lot of AP credits), and keeping up with the Langley, Mclean and North East boarding school kids.

I don’t see how my kids would receive a better education at a tier 4 school vs a tier 1 school.

Isn’t it great that we each get to choose what pyramid or kids attend!

Actually, you only get to choose what pyramid you attend if you're wealthy enough to afford all areas within FCPS.

Lower-income people end up choosing a house or apartment where they can afford.

This thread is a sad demonstration of how wealth and privilege divide this region. There appears to be a sense that if one spends more money, one is entitled to a better education, and thus a better school. There also appears to be a strong sense of class segregation that's coming through on this thread, with a belief that if you're poor and going to a school in a lower-income area, you will never achieve the same things as a richer child.

There are some really ugly sentiments here.

You could ignore the thread as click bait, but when you decide to scold it sends the thread right back to the top of the forum.

As I'm doing here, but at least with some awareness of the effect.

This web site is sustained by the classism and elitism of DC-area residents and their need to express such views anonymously. If you can't handle that, perhaps this is the wrong site for you to visit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think has to do a lot more some people trying to avoid schools with high FARMS and URM rates. This, of course, happens all over the US, and not surprisingly, in many countries in the Americas and Europe.

Right. South Lakes is mostly affluent and white, but it has more low income students than Lake Braddock for example, so it is perceived to be inferior.

South lakes is inferior because of IB.

"Inferior" according to the DCUMers who have an irrational hatred of IB.

Not inferior according to the UVA and W&M admissions officers who love IB students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SLHS is affluent???

Almost all the SFH for sale in Reston are well over $900k, make of that what you will.

[Anonymous]

IB is assigned to the failing schools in an attempt to attract talent but they would rather have ap

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:IB is assigned to the failing schools in an attempt to attract talent but they would rather have ap

I think IB is assigned to lower schools as an eady way to give involved families a way to transfer out, not to draw people into the schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IB is assigned to the failing schools in an attempt to attract talent but they would rather have ap

I think IB is assigned to lower schools as an eady way to give involved families a way to transfer out, not to draw people into the schools.

Originally IB was placed in FCPS high schools experiencing white flight to try and convince white families to stay. They were told their kids could attend a "school within a school."

Then they tried to expand it to some solid schools. They snuck it into Robinson but when they tried to swap AP with IB at Woodson the families rebelled. That was the end of new IB programs in FCPS high schools.

It's true that one "benefit" of IB now is it allows families to buy in a lower-cost area and then pupil place to an AP school. Much easier than signing up for Russian at Langley.

So IB schools in FCPS are less prestigious not because of IB itself but because of how it ended up in FCPS and how it functions in FCPS today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think has to do a lot more some people trying to avoid schools with high FARMS and URM rates. This, of course, happens all over the US, and not surprisingly, in many countries in the Americas and Europe.

Right. South Lakes is mostly affluent and white, but it has more low income students than Lake Braddock for example, so it is perceived to be inferior.

South lakes is inferior because of IB.

"Inferior" according to the DCUMers who have an irrational hatred of IB.

Not inferior according to the UVA and W&M admissions officers who love IB students.

They might love IB Diploma students, but the rest (majority) don't get much love. "Hatred" is the wrong term. Most of us under the reality that IB is problematic.