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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s important to avoid URMs in ES and MS (AAP works well here), but in most FCPS HS, you can find high achieving groups of kids. I wouldn’t want my kid to go to small number of FCPS HS but for the most part it’s not that big of a deal[/quote]

There's an interesting thread on Next Door from a Marshall parent considering a pupil placement to Falls Church for AP.  The thread is full of Falls Church parents talking about how good the school is, and there is only one post from a Falls Church student, which I've noted below, slightly edited for spelling:

[i]Hello my name is R***, I am currently a student at FCHS. To be quite honest, if you have the choice to not go to Falls Church I would take it. I would highly recommend not transferring your kid. The school has been under renovation for quite some time, and will continue to be under renovation for the next couple years, we have no ceiling in the hallways and the pipes often leak causing floods. The people at FC are not a good influence, 70% of the students are immigrants and don't speak English, and there is rampant drug use all throughout the school. We are also extremely poor, our prom this year was in our cafeteria, and we rarely have money to do school things such as field trips, etc. Not to mention a good number of the staff and admin are extremely unfriendly and seem like they hate their life. I'm graduating in a year and I am glad I am almost out of this place. I would highly recommend sending your kid somewhere else.[/i]

Sure, there will always be disaffected teens, but it was a reminder that the accounts from parents, who tend to look out for their property values, are often different from the accounts of kids actually attending some of these schools. [/quote]

You used the plural form for the word "kids" and "accounts." This is actually one child's account. Not multiple children. You shouldn't have used plural form.

What's more, you could look at other reviews of schools. Like this one from Great Schools regarding Langley: "Class of 2021 here, part of the special education system with ADHD + Dyslexia. The special education team was apathetic and disinterested at best and traumatic and ableist at worst."

Or this one, again, regarding Langley: "The principal does not have the necessary experience and the school is being managed by the assistants principals, which half of them have been too long in their jobs that only care about their pay checks. They don’t care about the students nor the community."

You can always find bad reviews. People get angry at teachers, or they don't like immigrants in their schools, and decide to write a negative review.

Doesn't mean that all students and parents at Langley (or Falls Church) feel the same. It's good to take multiple points of view into account, instead of finding the one perspective that confirms your already-existing bias.

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