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[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.
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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]

So this would allow free transport and guaranteed admission to Langley HS from a lower performing or “failing” school for example? Other districts in other state do in fact provide such a service, as compelled by court rulings. [/quote]

I think you'll be hard pressed to find a court ruling that says, in this scenario, a student has a right to free transport and guaranteed admission to Langley.

More likely, what FCPS would have to offer is the option to transfer to another school that is accredited, with transportation provided.  When Dogwood was not meeting the benchmarks years ago, my recollection is that families zoned to Dogwood had the option to transfer to Crossfield or Sunrise Valley ES.  It's not like they could elect to go to Churchill Road or any other school of their choosing. [/quote]

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