Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 19:23     Subject: Re:APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Arlington schools have been heading off the rails for awhile. Credit to GS for recognizing this.


I do agree with this. The county is living off a dated reputation of its school, not lived reality of 2017 with overcrowding, a superintentant overly focused on SOL with expansion of staffing in "testing analysis" and a focus on evaluating teachers/administrators based on SOL results, a Board that can't plan for the future and address overcrowding, and a stale rigid curriculum. GS is just finally updating Arlington's numbers to the truth about today's school.


+1
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 11:05     Subject: Re:APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Arlington schools have been heading off the rails for awhile. Credit to GS for recognizing this.


I do agree with this. The county is living off a dated reputation of its school, not lived reality of 2017 with overcrowding, a superintentant overly focused on SOL with expansion of staffing in "testing analysis" and a focus on evaluating teachers/administrators based on SOL results, a Board that can't plan for the future and address overcrowding, and a stale rigid curriculum. GS is just finally updating Arlington's numbers to the truth about today's school.


The county went stupid a few years ago and is trapped in a Gordian knot of its own making.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 11:03     Subject: Re:APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No way to spin it. These numbers are awful for Arlington.


As an Arlington parent who is happy with our schools, I think this is a great thing if it discourages people from moving here and crowding up the schools even more (and then complaining about the overcrowding that they contributed to).

More for me, me, me. Right?


The Arlington Way.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 10:29     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:Five stars isn't bad!


The rating isn't 5 stars. The rating is 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.

To get a list of Fairfax High Schools and their rating numbers: https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/fairfax-county-public-schools/schools/?gradeLevels=h
They run a wider spread of numbers. But if you look at the schools that have 5, 4, 3 ratings, it gives you a list of the high schools Great Schools considers comparable. Arlington real estate values may take a hit...
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 10:22     Subject: Re:APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:Arlington schools have been heading off the rails for awhile. Credit to GS for recognizing this.


I do agree with this. The county is living off a dated reputation of its school, not lived reality of 2017 with overcrowding, a superintentant overly focused on SOL with expansion of staffing in "testing analysis" and a focus on evaluating teachers/administrators based on SOL results, a Board that can't plan for the future and address overcrowding, and a stale rigid curriculum. GS is just finally updating Arlington's numbers to the truth about today's school.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 05:24     Subject: Re:APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No way to spin it. These numbers are awful for Arlington.


As an Arlington parent who is happy with our schools, I think this is a great thing if it discourages people from moving here and crowding up the schools even more (and then complaining about the overcrowding that they contributed to).

More for me, me, me. Right?
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 19:12     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, I'm happy we sold our house and left Arlington. We were zoned for Yorktown and ended up sending DD to a "lesser" school in a neighboring county that is now actually ranked higher than Yorktown.

We moved b/c of the schools, BTW. The crowding is awful. The education is good, but the culture is not healthy.

The fact that the tax bill may gut the mortgage interest deduction is icing on the cake.

I'd be very concerned about home values being sustained in Arlington if I still lived there. As it is, I sold my $1.3 million home on a postage stamp lot and bought one on 5 acres for $600,000 for nearly all cash. God bless equity.


I highly doubt you bought that in any "neighboring county" to Arlington. But nice try.


I assume she is referring to Loudoun, which is nearby if not adjacent.


There’s only one neighboring county to Arlington.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 19:10     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, I'm happy we sold our house and left Arlington. We were zoned for Yorktown and ended up sending DD to a "lesser" school in a neighboring county that is now actually ranked higher than Yorktown.

We moved b/c of the schools, BTW. The crowding is awful. The education is good, but the culture is not healthy.

The fact that the tax bill may gut the mortgage interest deduction is icing on the cake.

I'd be very concerned about home values being sustained in Arlington if I still lived there. As it is, I sold my $1.3 million home on a postage stamp lot and bought one on 5 acres for $600,000 for nearly all cash. God bless equity.


There’s a sucker born every second.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 18:53     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
Five stars isn't bad!
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 16:52     Subject: Re:APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Arlington schools have been heading off the rails for awhile. Credit to GS for recognizing this.


Look who's at the helm: someone who doesn't respect classroom teachers, and sells out our kids to Silicon Valley data collectors. Race to the bottom. And the School Board keeps extending his contract.


tell me more, please
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 15:34     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, I'm happy we sold our house and left Arlington. We were zoned for Yorktown and ended up sending DD to a "lesser" school in a neighboring county that is now actually ranked higher than Yorktown.

We moved b/c of the schools, BTW. The crowding is awful. The education is good, but the culture is not healthy.

The fact that the tax bill may gut the mortgage interest deduction is icing on the cake.

I'd be very concerned about home values being sustained in Arlington if I still lived there. As it is, I sold my $1.3 million home on a postage stamp lot and bought one on 5 acres for $600,000 for nearly all cash. God bless equity.


I highly doubt you bought that in any "neighboring county" to Arlington. But nice try.


I assume she is referring to Loudoun, which is nearby if not adjacent.


Sure, if she moved out to Purcellville or Middleburg or something like that. But realistically, unless the house is a total tear-down (in which case it's disingenuous to say you bought a home for $600k), I highly doubt OP bought that house anywhere you could really call DC metro area. You might as well be in West Virginia at that point.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 15:21     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, I'm happy we sold our house and left Arlington. We were zoned for Yorktown and ended up sending DD to a "lesser" school in a neighboring county that is now actually ranked higher than Yorktown.

We moved b/c of the schools, BTW. The crowding is awful. The education is good, but the culture is not healthy.

The fact that the tax bill may gut the mortgage interest deduction is icing on the cake.

I'd be very concerned about home values being sustained in Arlington if I still lived there. As it is, I sold my $1.3 million home on a postage stamp lot and bought one on 5 acres for $600,000 for nearly all cash. God bless equity.


I highly doubt you bought that in any "neighboring county" to Arlington. But nice try.


I assume she is referring to Loudoun, which is nearby if not adjacent.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 14:32     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, I'm happy we sold our house and left Arlington. We were zoned for Yorktown and ended up sending DD to a "lesser" school in a neighboring county that is now actually ranked higher than Yorktown.

We moved b/c of the schools, BTW. The crowding is awful. The education is good, but the culture is not healthy.

The fact that the tax bill may gut the mortgage interest deduction is icing on the cake.

I'd be very concerned about home values being sustained in Arlington if I still lived there. As it is, I sold my $1.3 million home on a postage stamp lot and bought one on 5 acres for $600,000 for nearly all cash. God bless equity.


I highly doubt you bought that in any "neighboring county" to Arlington. But nice try.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 13:03     Subject: APS high schools in Great Schools
I'll be honest, I'm happy we sold our house and left Arlington. We were zoned for Yorktown and ended up sending DD to a "lesser" school in a neighboring county that is now actually ranked higher than Yorktown.

We moved b/c of the schools, BTW. The crowding is awful. The education is good, but the culture is not healthy.

The fact that the tax bill may gut the mortgage interest deduction is icing on the cake.

I'd be very concerned about home values being sustained in Arlington if I still lived there. As it is, I sold my $1.3 million home on a postage stamp lot and bought one on 5 acres for $600,000 for nearly all cash. God bless equity.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2017 12:45     Subject: Re:APS high schools in Great Schools
Anonymous wrote:Arlington schools have been heading off the rails for awhile. Credit to GS for recognizing this.


Look who's at the helm: someone who doesn't respect classroom teachers, and sells out our kids to Silicon Valley data collectors. Race to the bottom. And the School Board keeps extending his contract.