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Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?

Fairfax middle schools are run entirely by a board of far-left progressive democrats, and an equally far left Superintendent.

Academics are not their priority. They have repeatedly and blatantly stated: academics are NOT their priority. They continue to state their main priority is:

Equity.

When you ignore academics, and prioritize equity, our middle schools predictably drop several ranks on academic measures.

If you disagree with the Board’s number one focus on equity, then stop voting for democrats running for the school board. If you continue to elect democrats to the Board, rankings will continue to drop in FCPS.

Oh goodie another election post by MAGA

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Anonymous wrote:No surprise.

Last month Youngkin declared 1/2 of 3-8 graders failed or may fail Reading SOL and 2/3 of 3-8 graders failed or may fail Math SOL.

Youngkin’s Solution? Get volunteer parents to teach Reaching and Math.
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/all-in-tutoring


Will Youngkin ask the passing students to teach the failing students next?

Do you have a better solution? They can’t find enough teachers to do it.

Teacher robots.

You'll have them soon....good teachers are DONE!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?

Fairfax middle schools are run entirely by a board of far-left progressive democrats, and an equally far left Superintendent.

Academics are not their priority. They have repeatedly and blatantly stated: academics are NOT their priority. They continue to state their main priority is:

Equity.

When you ignore academics, and prioritize equity, our middle schools predictably drop several ranks on academic measures.

If you disagree with the Board’s number one focus on equity, then stop voting for democrats running for the school board. If you continue to elect democrats to the Board, rankings will continue to drop in FCPS.

Oh goodie another election post by MAGA

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No surprise.

Last month Youngkin declared 1/2 of 3-8 graders failed or may fail Reading SOL and 2/3 of 3-8 graders failed or may fail Math SOL.

Youngkin’s Solution? Get volunteer parents to teach Reaching and Math.
https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/all-in-tutoring


Will Youngkin ask the passing students to teach the failing students next?

Do you have a better solution? They can’t find enough teachers to do it.

Teacher robots.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?

Fairfax middle schools are run entirely by a board of far-left progressive democrats, and an equally far left Superintendent.

Academics are not their priority. They have repeatedly and blatantly stated: academics are NOT their priority. They continue to state their main priority is:

Equity.

When you ignore academics, and prioritize equity, our middle schools predictably drop several ranks on academic measures.

If you disagree with the Board’s number one focus on equity, then stop voting for democrats running for the school board. If you continue to elect democrats to the Board, rankings will continue to drop in FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am looking at the VA middle school ranking on school digger, filtering with "Fairfax county, VA".
Among 26 FCPS middle schools on the list, only 6 middle schools' ranking improved. All other 20 schools ranking dropped.

Cooper dropped from 13 to 23
Longfellow dropped from 23 to 38
Forest middle dropped from 19 to 44
Franklin middle dropped from 21 to 85.....

Yes, the pandemic caused learning loss. But it impacted all areas. Now the pandemic is almost over. Other school districts are catching up but FCPS middle schools are still struggling?

Fairfax middle schools are run entirely by a board of far-left progressive democrats, and an equally far left Superintendent.

Academics are not their priority. They have repeatedly and blatantly stated: academics are NOT their priority. They continue to state their main priority is:

Equity.

When you ignore academics, and prioritize equity, our middle schools predictably drop several ranks on academic measures.

If you disagree with the Board’s number one focus on equity, then stop voting for democrats running for the school board. If you continue to elect democrats to the Board, rankings will continue to drop in FCPS.

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I don’t think you understand what I was asking. Doesn’t federal and state law mandate that FCPS address equity or inequality or whatever you want to call it.

Equality means equal opportunity, which means that children's access to educational opportunity cannot be based on factors such as race, background, gender, etc. The 14th Amendment and tons of laws prohibit treating children differently based on these factors.

Equity means achieving equal outcomes. Equity has become a buzzword and is the subject of many Presidential executive orders, but it isn't really the subject of any laws. The problem is that not every student has equal ability or give equal effort, so equity can only really be achieved by removing aspects of school that require ability or effort. Equity would also support spending far more resources on disadvantaged children than on nondisadvantaged children.

No.

Equality means everyone is treated exactly the same, regardless of their condition... e.g. no accomodations for the differently-abled. Equality is surface-level "equality of opportunity", but this inch-deep understanding often leads it to just being a facade thereof.

Equity acknowledges that sometimes people need to be treated differently in order to provide meaningful "equality of opportunity". Go ahead and build that wheelchair-accessible ramp. It recognizes that simply spending the same $/pupil (which would be equality) between an area with high FARMS students, fewer extracurricular or community assets, etc. than an area with high-SES families and resources supporting kids both in and out of the school is not going to produce true equality of opportunity between those groups of students.

The Supreme Court has ruled that differing $/pupil doesn't violate the Equal Protection clause (San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez). That case was in support of the system whereby wealthy districts have better-funded schools since so much of it comes from property taxes, while poor districts have far fewer resources with which to educate their students (who are typically starting school "behind" their wealthier counterparts to begin with, so this just compounds and perpetuates the inequality of opportunity). But the same logic applies in reverse, where we can take the more enlightened perspective that we ought to provide students who come from disadvantaged circumstances with additional supports in order to provide more meaningful equality of opportunity.

Neither equality nor equity refers directly to "equality of outcomes", nor do they guarantee them. One might generally assume that if you were meaningfully providing equality of opportunity to two different groups of students (grouped on whatever characteristic you deem of interest, within reason) that their outcomes ought to be roughly similar, and that any vast discrepancy in outcomes is probably a decent indicator that maybe they aren't being provided true equality of opportunity, and therefore would merit investigation as to the root causes and whether they can be remediated. But equity certainly does not demand taking away appropriate opportunities for advanced students to excel ("closing the achievement gap from the top down"), but it does suggest additional supports may be needed for those who are struggling. Equity likewise doesn't demand removing stairs, but it does suggest adding other mobility options such as ramps and elevators might be appropriate.

NP.

While you provide evidence to support what equity is supposed to mean, you are dodging the realities of what is happening in FCPS, in our kids schools, right now, in the name of “equity.”

Closing the racial and economic achievement gap - from the top down.

That is what the FCPS board and Michelle Reid are doing. Instead of raising up the lowest performing students / schools, the Board and Reid are taking away learning opportunities from top students - which will effectively help close that gap.

In FCPS, that IS “equity” - as the Board and Reid interpret it.

There are too many examples to list! But a few notable ones include: watering down AAP with the new “HOPE” rating scale, replacing AAP math with “E3” or E-cubed math to get rid of accelerated math classes, the attempt to purge all higher math from high school through VMPI (which only failed after massive push-back), etc, etc, etc.

Stop pretending equity is something it’s not here in FCPS.

If you are honest about where FCPS is headed, look at school systems who think the same way as Reid and the current board:

“That draft explicitly promoted the San Francisco Unified School District’s policy of banishing Algebra I from middle school—a policy grounded in the belief that teaching the subject only in high school would give all students the same opportunities for future success. The document also made a broad presumption that tweaking the content and timing of the math curriculum, rather than more effective teaching of the existing one, was the best way to fix achievement gaps among demographic groups”


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/california-math-framework-algebra/675509/

THAT is “equity” in practice.

Anonymous wrote:They changed failing grades to passing grades.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/governor-hogan-calls-for-criminal-investigation-grade-changing-in-baltimore-city-schools-digital-harbor-mergenthaler-maryland-inspector-general-education-rick-henry

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. I'm so sick of MAGA trolls.

People who notice changes in FCPS (or lack of changes) = trolls?

Are you sure about that?

DP here. Yes. When people frequently post complaints about FCPS that boil down to “equity”, it’s usually trolling.

NP. Agree.

Parents are lit screaming for change and you boil it down to "darn trolls." What would it take for you to believe that some parents and teachers aren't happy? Bigger question - why is this hard to believe?

It’s hard to believe because I don’t personally know any FCPS parents IRL screaming for change.

If teachers were given twice as much planning time - would your IRL parents complain or be happy? If the writing instruction became much better, would your IRL parents complain or be happy?

Happy. This would be a great improvement if writing classes were smaller with more feedback and teachers had more planning time.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. I'm so sick of MAGA trolls.

People who notice changes in FCPS (or lack of changes) = trolls?

Are you sure about that?

DP here. Yes. When people frequently post complaints about FCPS that boil down to “equity”, it’s usually trolling.

NP. Agree.

Parents are lit screaming for change and you boil it down to "darn trolls." What would it take for you to believe that some parents and teachers aren't happy? Bigger question - why is this hard to believe?

It’s hard to believe because I don’t personally know any FCPS parents IRL screaming for change.

If teachers were given twice as much planning time - would your IRL parents complain or be happy? If the writing instruction became much better, would your IRL parents complain or be happy?