Reply to Haycock OR Falls Church City schools

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Haycock OR Falls Church City schools - which would u choose?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing to consider - and this may not bother you but it does bother some - is the way elem grades are broken up in FCC. I believe it's 1 school for K-2 then another for 3-6. I've heard that is a pain when you have more than 1 kid.[/quote]

Actually it's

K-1 
2-4
5-7
8-12[/quote]

As of next year (they are renovating/expanding TJ Elementary), it will be:
K-1
2-5
6-8
9-12

We love the way it is. I love having my K girl only with K and 1 (at school, recess, aftercare, the bus, the summer camps). It is such a nurturing place and the kids get a chance to stay "younger", I think.  Can be a pain with both kids, but it seems pretty coordinated between the elementary schools (i.e. only 1 PTA, not 2. The buses come/go at pretty much the same time.).  Happy that the 5th graders will be moving back down to elementary and the 8th graders back to Middle school though.

We only have little ones, but people in the neighborhood seem to like the schools, all the way up.  One benefit of the small schools, is that people really know each other (from parents to teachers to administrators) - which I think helps in the behavior of the kids.  The sports teams don't seem very good - but it is easy to get on the teams :-)  And we do take advantage of all the things in town - we often walk to Cherry Hill park for the festivals and events (probably 1 per month), the farmers market of course, and the restaurants all the time.  Now that the kids are in school, we run into people we know all the time.  I think you can do a lot of that from the right over the border (like past West on Great Falls) but it becomes unwalkable pretty soon after that.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics