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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When your school has hundreds of empty seats (Mount Vernon) and the School Board nevertheless funds a massive expansion of the nearest school (West Potomac) to keep kids from being reassigned there - unlike in other situations where they've changed boundaries and reassigned kids - it's basically confirmation that FCPS sees the school as a pariah. It accelerates the flight of higher-income families out of the school.

You can thank former School Board member Karen Corbett Sanders for this, although she was cheered on by other local politicians.  [/quote]

No one is going to allow their kids to be redistricted to Mount Vernon as there is no point living in Fairfax County if your kids have to go to a bad school. It's foolish to even think that would be politically viable. You want MVHS improved? Send your own kids and be an activist PTO president.[/quote]

MVHS Class of 2015 - MVHS isn't a bad school.  Poverty rate were high so sometimes is not easy to do well in school when nothing is right at home.   
They were serval students who just didn't care and didn't complete any work or attend class, they either dropped out or were transfer to Bryant or a different school.  I remember my Major Time Class, its homeroom had 15 kids on the first day of freshman year, and it ended up with 10 kids by Senior year.  (some kids move,  some transferred, some failed or dropped out.) 
My final GPA was around 2.87, no IB classes, but passed most my SOLs, and at the end of the day its not a bad school.  
It might be a bad school compare to some schools in FCPS, because they have  high standards, but overall it was a pretty average in other parts of VA.  
We need to remember SOLS and SAT scores are not everything.   
It does have a bad rap, but if  you hang out with the right crowd  you will graduated and do okay in either NOVA or a 4 year school.  
We did have a problem with bullying, but all schools do.  
The Principal Ms.King, was funny, but she will always serious when needed, she had a strict cell phone policy, unlike other schools in FCPS at the same time, but she got to know everyone and will even buy us Chipotle and other foods.  She even paid some kids to come watch the football game.   Freshman year my parents were unemployed in 2011-2022 doing the peak of the Great Recession, I remember telling her something how I wasn't looking forward for Thanksgiving because what was going on at home.... [b]The Friday before Thanksgiving she called my mom telling us where we could go pick up a Thanksgiving Dinner[/b].    
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Thanks for sharing your experience.  What a kind and caring principal you had.[/quote]
+1[/quote]

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