Reply to Anyone else educated by FCPS and sees the decline?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Anyone else educated by FCPS and sees the decline?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t we just admit that the schools are failing and then look to the root cause?

It may not be the teachers? It may not be the students? Maybe we need a path to ESL competency before you can be mainstreamed.
[/quote]

There is a lot of judgment involved in declaring a school “failing.”  The right-wingers just want to set a high bar and declare schools “failures” to generate anti-immigrant sentiments.

Of course, there should be a focus on the best way to try and bring up kids who aren’t necessarily going to perform like native English speakers on standardized tests, but that doesn’t have to involve labeling schools as “failing.”  That stigmatizes a bunch of people trying to do their best. [/quote]

DP. I’d categorize them as failing because the school board is focusing its efforts on those poor performing schools, hell bent on fixing them with the boundary moves. The school board is leading the charge in making these kids feel like $#%* by emphasizing that they need other more successful kids to join the schools to bring those scores up.[/quote]

I don't think PP wants the boundary changes.  That could keep certain schools accredited.  They want schools denied accreditation, so that it triggers provisions that give parents at those schools the option to attend other schools until the state has determined that appropriate remediation has occurred.  It doesn't happen often in FCPS, but it occurred years ago at Dogwood ES in Reston.  That puts its own strains on the system - if a large number of Justice HS families, for example, were to declare they wanted to another school, does FCPS have to give them the option to attend schools that are already overcrowded?  [/quote]

If they claim all local performing schools are over crowded, then they'll have a problem with VDOE and the department of education. Transfer to a better performing school is a remedy that the district is required to provide  [/quote]

Then maybe the Feds and the state government should provide FCPS with additional money to expand its schools.  My point stands: unfunded mandates put an additional strain on the system.  [/quote]

If FCPS didn't draw their lines so carefully to clump poor kids together, then it wouldn't be a problem [/quote]

Tell us you don’t know the history of the FCPS boundaries without telling us you don’t know the history.[/quote]

Langley clearly needs to be redrawn. I know people will be mad but those boundary lines are egregious.[/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