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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS was never that great, academically or administratively, people are just noticing it now. FCSP's reputation will never recover. [/quote]

It actually was at one time...but now we are just hanging on to the coat tails of that once had reputation.[/quote]

And yet, FCPS consistently still are among the highest ranked schools in the nation on a variety of metrics.[/quote]

Former FCPS teacher and parent here.  I taught for 35 years.  I graduated from a FCPS High School.  My kids graduated from FCPS.  
I can tell you that I saw a gradual decline in the quality of teaching during my career.  And, a decline in the quality of administration.  It is sad, really.  
There are still some really great teachers.  But, they are being asked to perform miracles.  It is not humanly possibly with the time they have and the incredibly diverse students they teach (and i am not talking about "race" diverse).  And, it isn't about pay or the amount we spend on students.  I believe FCPS has become "top heavy" with way too many central office and administration positions.  I also think FCPS has "mainstreamed" to the point where a good teacher is unable to effectively teach the majority of students because of the serious needs of a few.

And, to compare FCPS to other schools across the nation is an attempt at striving for mediocrity.  The US is not setting the world on fire with its education system.  According to a Business Insider report in 2018, the U.S. ranked 38th in math scores and 24th in science.

My two cents. [/quote]

This resonates with most people familiar with FCPS but the schools are run by a Democratic establishment that can’t hire enough people in administrative, non-teaching roles and elevates “mainstreaming” and “equity” over everything else.  The results in terms of both decking performance and declining morale are totally predictable.

And the public keeps voting for more of the same, so there is unfortunately no reason to expect any improvement any time soon.  [/quote]

Your desperate attempts to convince people who weren’t already going to vote R to vote R still aren’t working.[/quote]

You fail to realize how many Democrats are disgusted with the decline of FCPS in recent years. Even if they don’t vote for Republicans they are looking for ways to get out of FCPS. Just look at the declining enrollment numbers. [/quote]

The numbers are trending back up post-pandemic.  If you control for shifts in child population compared to pre-pandemic (we're experiencing more of the demographic cliff with the decline of birth rates since now all of ES and MS are covered by the declining birth rate years) the "decline in enrollment" is fairly illusory.[/quote]

The slight trend upward doesn't change the fact that there was a large loss in enrollment from 2019-20 to 2020-21 and thereafter, which is primarily due to dissatisfaction with FCPS and cannot simply be ascribed to declining birth rates.  [/quote]

I've noticed no decreased enrollment or smaller class sizes at all. I know not a single child that transferred as a result of the pandemic. While that's anecdotal, I also don't think 1-2 years out from the pandemic is much of a "trend" either way. People are still using the pandemic as a talking point, riling people up with the politics of it, complaining about it . .  . regardless of where you fall on that, you can't say anything after 1.5 years of being back to normal. [/quote]

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