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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One data point:

My child in Honors 9th grade English at Langley is reading an abridged version of the Odyssey.  It’s about 1/3 the length of the original book and the language is simplified.

I read the full book when I was in 9th grade in FCPS and her older cousin also read the full book about 10 years ago in another FCPS high school.  [/quote]

Then have your child read the full book at home. Fairfax County has libraries.  [/quote]

Don’t count on the schools to do as well by your children as they did by you. It’s all about supplementation, homeschooling and private school these days.[/quote]

Colleague with kids in MCPS says the same general trends discussed here about FCPS also are true there.  His oldest was MCPS all the way.  Next bailed at MS for private, youngest was moved to private after 2nd grade.  They watched the decline in their own kids.  Neighbors here are reporting the same for FCPS.
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Only the small township based school districts of the northeast and other parts of the U.S. appear to be largely immune from such trends. Of course, the problem there is funding problems for the poorer towns with more diverse housing types. [/quote]

It's amazing what happens when you draw lines to exclude poor kids.[/quote]

So too is what happens when you ignore borders and allow a flood of poorly educated.[/quote]

My legal immigrant US citizen wife and myself are just waiting until the spring housing market cycle to sell and relocate our family.  Job market and public schools brought us here, but with the direction FCPS is heading it no longer sits on the positive column of any decision making criteria.  Might as well transfer my kids into the best HS pyramid in another county in VA where there's no influx of undocumented, poorly educated immigrants.[/quote]

If you think any other county in VA is producing better results than FCPS than by all means, have at it.

You're statement is racist at best and translates to "I don't want my child to be in the vicinity of poor brown children so I shall seek out other whiter areas of the state to reside."[/quote]

Unfortunately you can see Fairfax county is ranted 41th in Virginia https://www.schooldigger.com/go/VA/districtrank.aspx[/quote]

Ironic that the top individual schools list is full of FCPS [/quote]

only a few but most FCPS schools are poorly performing, other school districts have many highly performing schools[/quote]

If those other districts were as oversized and bloated as FCPS they’d include additional schools just outside of their borders that would bring down their numbers. 
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Most of the top districts on that list are tiny and rural compared to FCPS. We have too many competing interests and too many different types of people to please that nobody ends up happy. [/quote]
You make a good point about FCPS having too many competing interests. But isn't that self-inflicted? The school board is pushing policies like "One Fairfax" and equity initiatives as major priorities, focusing more on social issues like LGBTQ+ advocacy rather than the fundamentals like math, reading, writing, and science. These are the basics measured by SOL tests, and if FCPS isn’t excelling in those core areas, why is the board so focused on everything else?

It's time to question whether the board’s focus is where it should be. If our students aren't mastering the basics, maybe we need leadership that prioritizes actual education over political and social agendas. Shouldn’t getting back to the fundamentals be our main concern?
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You are watching too much FoxNews misinformation.

FCPS isn’t focusing more on social issues than academics.

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If my examples aren’t seen as the “competing interests,” then what are? Most of what I’ve seen come through from the superintendent focuses on policies like equity, gun control, One Fairfax, inclusion, and social justice-related issues. These are important topics, but they seem to dominate the conversation. If there are other major competing interests FCPS is dealing with, I haven’t seen them highlighted in the same way. So, the real question is—are these priorities being balanced effectively with core academics?[/quote]

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