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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

OMG. Do you have any critical thinking skills? You do know that Falls Church City has a total of FOUR schools with a poverty rate of 4%. FCPS is not “middle of the pack.”

Loudoun County has 13 Title 1 schools while FCPS has 51. If you can’t see how poverty levels impact achievement scores, you’re not very bright.

Poor people are not universally under achievers. I grew up in the projects, graduated at the top of my HS class and went on to earn a bachelor and masters degree from a prestigious university.

The quality of education at FCPS has fallen dramatically over the past two decades. That is a simple fact.

Stories like yours are rare. Most kids who come from poverty do not graduate from college, a large percentage don’t graduate from HS.

I taught extremely poor children. This is true. However, much can be done with good, strong and direct instruction.
That is where the focus should be with the struggling students--rather than being more concerned about school scores.
Here is a secret: when you focus on teaching the kids rather than just practicing for the tests, they ultimately will perform better.
That is not to say you don't give them practice tests, but those should be secondary to the instruction.

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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

OMG. Do you have any critical thinking skills? You do know that Falls Church City has a total of FOUR schools with a poverty rate of 4%. FCPS is not “middle of the pack.”

Loudoun County has 13 Title 1 schools while FCPS has 51. If you can’t see how poverty levels impact achievement scores, you’re not very bright.

Poor people are not universally under achievers. I grew up in the projects, graduated at the top of my HS class and went on to earn a bachelor and masters degree from a prestigious university.

The quality of education at FCPS has fallen dramatically over the past two decades. That is a simple fact.

Stories like yours are rare. Most kids who come from poverty do not graduate from college, a large percentage don’t graduate from HS.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of “off track” and “needs intensive support” at the elementary level.

At the high poverty schools. I would bet the groups struggling are poor Black and Hispanic kids with little support at home.

And, this people, is why they want to redraw the boundaries. It hides the problem rather than fixes it.

I agree that’s why they wanted to redraw the boundaries originally, to hide some problems. But that’s not what ended up happening because the loudest, most connected community groups shut it down for the most part so they just ended up with a bunch of “edge moves” no one asked for anyway.

I really wish county voters would vote against the same old school board and county supervisors. Same old same old.

Enjoy the meal and prepared food tax that goes into effect in Jan.

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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

OMG. Do you have any critical thinking skills? You do know that Falls Church City has a total of FOUR schools with a poverty rate of 4%. FCPS is not “middle of the pack.”

Loudoun County has 13 Title 1 schools while FCPS has 51. If you can’t see how poverty levels impact achievement scores, you’re not very bright.

Poor people are not universally under achievers. I grew up in the projects, graduated at the top of my HS class and went on to earn a bachelor and masters degree from a prestigious university.

The quality of education at FCPS has fallen dramatically over the past two decades. That is a simple fact.

The issue is that the poor families are more likely to be unable to prepare their child for school. Immigrant or not, they come to kindergarten not ready and it takes a long time to catch up. But these kids still get sent to AAP centers.

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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

OMG. Do you have any critical thinking skills? You do know that Falls Church City has a total of FOUR schools with a poverty rate of 4%. FCPS is not “middle of the pack.”

Loudoun County has 13 Title 1 schools while FCPS has 51. If you can’t see how poverty levels impact achievement scores, you’re not very bright.

Poor people are not universally under achievers. I grew up in the projects, graduated at the top of my HS class and went on to earn a bachelor and masters degree from a prestigious university.

The quality of education at FCPS has fallen dramatically over the past two decades. That is a simple fact.

Oh come on, if you don't understand that poor kids perform worse as a group than UMC kids then you aren't as smart as you claim to be.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

OMG. Do you have any critical thinking skills? You do know that Falls Church City has a total of FOUR schools with a poverty rate of 4%. FCPS is not “middle of the pack.”

Loudoun County has 13 Title 1 schools while FCPS has 51. If you can’t see how poverty levels impact achievement scores, you’re not very bright.

Poor people are not universally under achievers. I grew up in the projects, graduated at the top of my HS class and went on to earn a bachelor and masters degree from a prestigious university.

The quality of education at FCPS has fallen dramatically over the past two decades. That is a simple fact.

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Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

OMG. Do you have any critical thinking skills? You do know that Falls Church City has a total of FOUR schools with a poverty rate of 4%. FCPS is not “middle of the pack.”

Loudoun County has 13 Title 1 schools while FCPS has 51. If you can’t see how poverty levels impact achievement scores, you’re not very bright.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

Mostly this seems to track the demographics of the various jurisdictions, except that APS underperforms compared to FCPS.

So being a sanctuary county is bad for the public school system.

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Anonymous wrote:So do schools that are Off Track or Need Intensive Support actually get some support from FCPS or the state? And what does that look like?

Those schools get additional funds and have more support for struggling students. These are schools with the restrictive SPED programs, where kids don’t test well and might not ever be on grade level. It’s the schools that are impoverished where kids are not raised being read to or have someone at home to help with school. There are programs in place.

Oh, interesting. We are at al ''off track" elementary but we do have both a SPED program (with the kids who are non-verbal, in wheelchairs, etc.) and a large autism program. Do those kids really get counted with the general population in testing scores? That seems ridiculous. And masks the scores of the general population. Because we also do have a pretty high FARMS rate and ESL population.

Yes, they count. All of the schools meet the on track requirements but there are large enough groups not on track that they changed the designation. It is why all the schools are accredited regardless of groups needing more support.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

Mostly this seems to track the demographics of the various jurisdictions, except that APS underperforms compared to FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%

So the once great FCPS is now middle of the pack and falling. But keep giving Reid raises and voting in terrible school board members. Clearly a winning strategy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So do schools that are Off Track or Need Intensive Support actually get some support from FCPS or the state? And what does that look like?

Those schools get additional funds and have more support for struggling students. These are schools with the restrictive SPED programs, where kids don’t test well and might not ever be on grade level. It’s the schools that are impoverished where kids are not raised being read to or have someone at home to help with school. There are programs in place.

Oh, interesting. We are at al ''off track" elementary but we do have both a SPED program (with the kids who are non-verbal, in wheelchairs, etc.) and a large autism program. Do those kids really get counted with the general population in testing scores? That seems ridiculous. And masks the scores of the general population. Because we also do have a pretty high FARMS rate and ESL population.

Anonymous wrote:So do schools that are Off Track or Need Intensive Support actually get some support from FCPS or the state? And what does that look like?

Those schools get additional funds and have more support for struggling students. These are schools with the restrictive SPED programs, where kids don’t test well and might not ever be on grade level. It’s the schools that are impoverished where kids are not raised being read to or have someone at home to help with school. There are programs in place.

So do schools that are Off Track or Need Intensive Support actually get some support from FCPS or the state? And what does that look like?

Percentage of "Distinguished" Schools:

FCCPS 100%
LCPS 46.9%
FCPS 38.9%
APS 34.3%
ACPS 5.9%

Percentage of "Off Track/Needs Intensive Support" Schools:

ACPS 76.5%
APS 31.4%
FCPS 23.8%
LCPS 18.4%
FCCPS 0%