Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, school rankings have become a marketing scheme run by the real estate industry. This nonsense causes naive buyers to pay absurd prices for incremental differences in schools within a district. All of this means bigger paychecks for the real estate agents and their cronies.

Oh, yippy. Another uninformed commenter. To start, home prices hinge of numerous factors extending well beyond school quality. Not that I would expect you to do the research, but if you had, you’d know that many local neighborhoods are expensive AND in near-failing districts.

I’m guessing you’re also unaware that Realtors can’t even discuss whether a neighborhood is safe/unsafe, let alone comment on the quality of the schools.

Realtors being the mastermind behind school ratings? Good one. 👎

DP. Greatschools is king. Not sure why so many refuse to admit it.

Other than being a website parents use to gauge the education quality of a school, are you saying realtors had something to do with creating the website? Or are you claiming they influence ratings? I'm highly confused. Mainly seems like you don't like realtors.

Most parents (living in homes and apartments) are usually interested giving their kids a quality education.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Test scores = “MAGA trolls” ??

Please explain.

Anonymous wrote:That is a big drop for Franklin. Even if that website isn’t totally accurate it seems concerning given that’s a much bigger drop than others. My kids are in ES but we’re zoned for Franklin MS. Anyone know what’s going on there?

Probably time to look for a private school.

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

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

Are you sure about that?

Because it’s so formulaic. Listen-I think most people are not thrilled with FCPS right now. But a lot of it sounds like talking points from certain political groups. And it goes both ways-if I try to call out something that seems made up, I’m told I’m a LWNJ. Just in the past couple of days there have been threads/discussions within threads about: An OP terrified at the prospect of public school bc of “wokeness” and someone immediately after recommending they run to private schools. Whether elsewhere in VA has superior education/how to “flee” FCPS. If white people are being made to feel guilty in social studies. If LGBTAQ is being pushed on kids. I agree with a lot of the qualms regarding FCPS (weak LA/writing, not holding kids accountable, wonky grading). But it is not a secret or a conspiracy theory that right wing groups have capitalized on parents fears re: state of education and discontent re: Covid and ran with it. But I don’t think for a minute they give a damn. I just wish the Democrats would listen to parents and teachers concerns re: academics and behaviors.

Anonymous wrote:

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

This forum seems to have become increasingly dominated by them over the past year or so.

Be kind. They’re not trolling, just expressing frustrations about how they’re sick of seeing the dual quality of life and education system tanking in real time.

In fact, I’m eager to know how your experience is any different—unless you don’t actually live here…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At this point, school rankings have become a marketing scheme run by the real estate industry. This nonsense causes naive buyers to pay absurd prices for incremental differences in schools within a district. All of this means bigger paychecks for the real estate agents and their cronies.

Oh, yippy. Another uninformed commenter. To start, home prices hinge of numerous factors extending well beyond school quality. Not that I would expect you to do the research, but if you had, you’d know that many local neighborhoods are expensive AND in near-failing districts.

I’m guessing you’re also unaware that Realtors can’t even discuss whether a neighborhood is safe/unsafe, let alone comment on the quality of the schools.

Realtors being the mastermind behind school ratings? Good one. 👎

DP. Greatschools is king. Not sure why so many refuse to admit it.

Anonymous wrote:At this point, school rankings have become a marketing scheme run by the real estate industry. This nonsense causes naive buyers to pay absurd prices for incremental differences in schools within a district. All of this means bigger paychecks for the real estate agents and their cronies.

Oh, yippy. Another uninformed commenter. To start, home prices hinge of numerous factors extending well beyond school quality. Not that I would expect you to do the research, but if you had, you’d know that many local neighborhoods are expensive AND in near-failing districts.

I’m guessing you’re also unaware that Realtors can’t even discuss whether a neighborhood is safe/unsafe, let alone comment on the quality of the schools.

Realtors being the mastermind behind school ratings? Good one. 👎

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

When equity is one of the driving factors in FCPS decision making, it’s not trolling but instead relevant discussion. People still disagree on equity and it’s role in FCPS, so that means people will most likely disagree with decisions that illustrate negative effects of that focus.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

So by your reasoning the schools at the top are in the red parts of VA?

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.

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.

I kind of agree with this.

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?

No worries. FCPS doesn't follow Youngkin's policy.