Someone who thinks that too many Woodson students are ending up dead or in the ICU for there to not be something seriously wrong at the school. Either the school has huge, systemic problems or an unprecedented degree of terrible luck. Personally, I would blame suicide clusters and a teacher performing an unnecessary science experiment know to cause flash fires a huge, systemic problem, but either way, I wouldn't want my kids going to school there. |
Blah blah blah. You are just gossipy and gross. |
Wow. So you're somehow linking suicides and an accident in the chem lab to one another. Unbelievable. |
I'm thinking someone who paid $1M plus to get into McLean is now pissy that Woodson and its $500k houses has edged over them in the rankings. |
And you would be wrong. Much younger kids in a completely different part of the county-- and no particular bone to pick with Woodson. But as a parent of kids that will one day be in HS, I find the amount of tragedy at Woodson in the last few years to be alarming. And think that one tragedy is an anomaly, but that Woodson has had way too many terrible things happen to be claiming "bad luck." I hope FCPS will be taking a long hard look to figure out what the he** is going on. |
| I hate to inform you, PP, but Woodson is not a lone suicide cluster. There are many HSs in FCPS with alarming suicides. It's a problem for the entire area. Not to scare OP, because suicide is a problem right now at many many HSs throughout the country. |
| Any suicides at herndon or south lakes high schools? |
There was a suicide at South Lakes last year. |
I have the same numbers and moved to Burke to be in the Lake Braddock pyramid. I love it here. |
Thx |
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Woodson has the most, but there have been suicides at Langley, Fairfax, South Lakes, and Robinson in the last few years. Enough that FCPS has been given several thousand $$ in grant money to find out why. Here's a heartbreaking article about the girl at Fairfax.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/family-struggles-to-explain-girls-death-among-3-teen-suicides-in-fairfax-since-sept/2014/11/18/e26bd0e6-6f54-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html |
+1. Also, if interested, you could apply for the immersion program at Laurel Ridge. |
+1 http://www.fcps.edu/dss/ips/dasp/VA-EpiAidQA.pdf
Link to the EpiAid report: http://www.fcps.edu/dss/ips/dasp/VAEpi-AidReport.pdf |