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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think maybe we disagree on what public schools mean in a fundamental way if you believe that the price of the house a child's family can afford should directly determine the quality of their public school education. Maybe you should get a cheaper house and pay for private school.[/quote]

Or maybe you should acknowledge that FCPS short-changes the public schools in McLean and then takes credit for the high achievement of their students that is a result of the additional resources that the parents there have to fork over on their own. [/quote]

No one wants McLean schools to get more than other schools in FCPS. They want to be treated equally. I’m not sure you understand what goes on. FCPS regularly puts money into schools in poorer areas and then expects McLean schools to do without. For example, fields at poorer schools are regularly funded by FCPS. If McLean needs money for fields, they are required to fundraise for them. The county will not pay for them. That is just one example.

Citizens of mclean just want to be treated equally, not better than. But they are constantly being treated less than all others in the county because they assume the citizens will just fund it themselves.

But then FCPS is perfectly ready to take credit for the high test scores that come out of the underfunded schools. Even though it is the parents and students that actually are responsible for those phenomenal test scores. [/quote]

Ummm... maybe the teachers helped also. But they don't live in McLean, I guess. [/quote]

Sorry - I don't disagree that the teachers help.  But McLean is not provided with better teachers than the rest of the county.  You can't say that the teachers at McLean/Langley are so much better than the teachers at South Lakes can you?  So much so that it makes the difference in all the test scores?

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It is generally easier to recruit and retain teachers at McLean/Langley than at many other schools because the teachers don't have to work as hard or deal with as many disciplinary issues, but the flip-side is that the area is expensive and teachers may prefer positions closer to where they live.

If McLean City ran its own schools, it likely could pay higher salaries than FCPS or offer smaller class sizes, both advantages to teachers. [/quote]

Is this what Fairfax City and McLean currently do? [/quote]

Fairfax City owns all the school buildings in that jurisdiction, and they contract with FCPS to operate them.  I don't believe teachers at Fairfax, Lanier, Providence or Daniels Run get paid more than other FCPS teachers.

Falls Church City owns and operates all the school buildings in that jurisdiction (and one school that is physically located in Fairfax County); on average, teachers get paid $3000 more than in FCPS and classes are smaller.

McLean would not try to self-incorporate unless it planned to follow the FCC model.  A primary driver is the dissatisfaction with FCPS. [/quote]

McLean City would probably have at least twice the population of Fairfax City and about four times the population of Falls Church City, by the way.  And it wouldn't be a city within the county, like Fairfax City; rather its boundaries would be north of Fairfax County. [/quote]

I can just imagine the shit that would hit the fan as they drew boundary lines and those left out by a block or a few feet or whatever started screaming unfair.[/quote]

[b]That would be a sad commentary on how people feel about the county and FCPS right now, wouldn't it?[/b]  [/quote]

we moved here over 20 years ago.  Friends in Reston told me pre real estate selection that he special tax district would be gone when the bond was paid off in 1999.  Guess what?  Still paying.  People vote for bonds because they mix in pork with the necessary.   No one expected the excessive expenditure on Langley.  Just poor work.  This county is run by the Lee and Mount Vernon Districts.  It's really over the top with Bulova retiring and MacKay [ex Lee] now Chair.  We've wanted out ever since he called the open capacity at Mount Vernon the elephant in the room for the West Potomac addition.  June 2019.

Blatant abuse of people across this county in all but Lee and Mount Vernon Magisterial Districts.  And the abuse of people goes all the way to Dulles for the Sully District.   [/quote]

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