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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
12:31 A friend of mine did a poll of their friends on facebook all around the USA and FCPS had the largest class sizes of all 30 people responding and many of these school districts even had textbooks. Not saying these make up a great school system, but it does seem like other counties are able to get along with less and not stress out the parents and teachers as much.

I bet none of your friends is in a county wide district the size of FCPS.

Back home, the school districts are mostly by neighborhood.

Most of the school districts are comparable to our pyramids. (One highschool, 2-4 feeder middle schools, 4-8 feeder elementary schools). Many are much smaller (akin to Falls Church City). One or two are considered quite large back home (a couple of high schools, 4-6 middle schools, about a dozen elementary schools). This is a decent sized Midwest city.

In a situation like this, the affluent districts have schools that are quite exceptional. The middle class districts are not too bad either.

The poorer neighborhoods and urban poverty filled districts are quite abysmal. As in, losing certification and being taken over by the state bad.

Fairfax county is too large. On the plus side, the district works very hard to provide the poorer pyramids and neighborhoods with the same quality of school as one would expect in a county so wealthy. On the negative side, by doing so the district is stretching the resources from the wealthy areas too thin. That is why we are in trouble.

If FCPS broke apart this massive district, and let each pyramid become its own separate school districts, those schools in affluent neighborhoods would be spectacular, with great resources, state of the art facilities, and exceptional teachers and programs. The middle class neighborhoods such as Cluster 6 (Lake Braddock, West Springfield and Robinson pyramids) would all be excellent schools with solid programs, good facilities, and exceptional teachers.

The less affluent pyramids would struggle, and suffer without the benefits FCPS' more affluent communities share with them.

You really cannot compare this massive district with such a varied demographic to your friend's suburban and wealthy districts back home. You just can't. It is like apples and oranges. There really is no comparison. [/quote]

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