Reply to APS Sinking Ship

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "APS Sinking Ship"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
[quote]Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I have the same question about whether to stay in Arlington, But frankly I don't see many better options at the public level nearby. I value our quality of life (less traffic, shorter commute, most things nearby, close to DC, more time spent with family, walkable communities) too much to move to MoCo on FFX. We can't afford private, so we are just going to have to stick it out. There are some positives about APS even now, but yes, the situation is getting beyond worrisome.

Falls Church City or Vienna. Arlington is a slow motion train wreck.

Yeah, but NA is fine too. [b]What are FCC and Vienna if not NA without SA?[/b] The real problem is that NA insists on imposing their moral vision on SA instead of letting it become like NA.[/quote]

They are nice communities that have much better schools than NA, and have their own identities. You make it sound like they are NA wannabes, which they are not.[/quote]

Of course they are. They’re small, expensive, cloistered communities. You have to have a lot of coin to buy a house in those places so of course the test scores and other metrics of “quality” which correlate to family income are off the charts. Even NA is diverse by comparison.
[/quote]

Nope.  North Arlington is not diverse, and North Arlington north of Lee Highway (the Yorktown HS areas) is the whitest, least diverse part of NoVa.

APS has some highly ranked elementary schools.  The middle schools don't shine as brightly, and the performance really falls off at the high school level.  It's been that way for years, and certainly did not improve under Murphy. [/quote]

BS. Yorktown, Madison, and George Mason are all about 65% white (Madison 66%). YT has 15% Hispanic (highest of the 3), and fewer Asian by about 3%.

So racial demographics are pretty identical.

Economically, Madison has 10% FARMS, Yorktown 13%, George Mason doesn’t report (or has 0% — anyone know the real deal)?

So no NA is not the whitest enclave. [/quote]

The entire US is 77% white so a school that is 65% white is pretty diverse relatively speaking.[/quote]

Since the Hispanic population is broken out separately by APS you are comparing apples and oranges.

The entire US is 61% non-Hispanic white and that percentage undoubtedly would be lower for those under 18.[/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