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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever? [/quote]
Worst[/quote]

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list[/quote]

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.[/quote]

People will complain about anything  :roll:

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.[/quote]

Sure, because FCPS earns that status because it's got a well-off, well-educated parent population who will help their kid succeed and provide resources when the school fails to do so.  It's not because FCPS itself provides a good education for every kid.  My public HS, which only made the top 100 schools in Virginia and top 2000 schools in the country, did a far better job addressing the needs of average and struggling learners than FCPS does (and had much better diversity stats than the top FCPS schools, too).

We live in one of the top-10 high school districts, and FCPS has been great for our very smart and academically-engaged child.  It has been absolutely miserable for our child who need more support, and we ended up pulling them from our highly-ranked elementary school for three very expensive years of private because the ES would not do more than the bare minimum for any kid not in the AAP program.  And the kid is smart and does not have learning disabilities - we've had multiple rounds of psychoeducational testing done over the years, we have shared with their case manager over the years what strategies are most successful, and we pay quite a bit for medical care out outside support (executive function coaching and math tutoring) because FCPS does not cut it alone.  If your child is not failing (and they will adjust grading/expectations so they are not), FCPS considers that a FAPE win.[/quote]

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