Reply to Alexandria HSs

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Alexandria HSs"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just told of another quality veteran teacher who was run off by TC administration because of petty power tripping. This teacher was fantastic and will be probably be better off wherever they end up but it's a big loss for TC. This crap happens ALL. THE. TIME. here and it's ridiculous. I see a lot of talk here about "dumbing down" curriculum and non-native speakers and such but lack of achievement in ACPS in general and TC specifically is down to the people in charge.[b] Arlington and Fairfax aren't any less diverse [/b]yet they seem to do a pretty good job educating everyone. The difference is that they're not overrun with administrative hangers-on who are allowed to run schools and departments like a banana republic with no consequences.

I don't know if this ultimately is down to school board or superintendent or a little or each but until someone cleans house TC is going to struggle, regardless of student body makeup.[/quote]

Here is actual data on FARMs, ESOL, AA and hispanic percentages.  I would say it shows the challlenges ACPS faces.

Student body demographics

% African American

Alexandria - 27%
Arlington - 10%
Fairfax - 10%

%Hispanic

Alexandria - 36%
Arlington - 28%
Fairfax - 25%

FARMS

Alexandria - 63%
Arlington - 31%
Fairfax - 29%

ESOL
Alexandria - 30%
Arlington - 19%
Fairfax - 29%[/quote]

These numbers may not help things, but the notion that ACPS's failings are entirely/mostly because of its student body makeup is ridiculous. If the working environment was such that they could attract AND RETAIN talented educators, it wouldn't matter if they were 50% ELL and 100% Free/reduced lunch. The one advantage ACPS had was that its pay was so much higher than FCPS, but that gap has narrowed considerably, so now there's no true incentive for a talented teacher to stay and deal with the backwards fustercluck that is ACPS (The above post calling it a banana republic was spot on). [/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