Fairfax should never have put IB in so many schools. It should have created two or three IB magnet schools. The high number of ESOL kids in eastern Fairfax has also had a significant negative impact on the schools in that part of the county. For other pyramids like McLean, Langley, Madison, and Marshall, the schools are likely on par with or better than they were thirty years ago.

Too many illegals

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spend a lot of time in different classrooms in different schools watching the system in action.

It's not that FCPS is in decline. It's that your kid has a cell phone, and you just cannot imagine how much that time and attention sink is hurting his/her education.

Ok Ryan!

That's funny. Nope. I'm not a school board member. I don't think they spend much, if any, time in the classroom. I'm in a different one usually at different schools almost every day. Try again.

Anonymous wrote:I spend a lot of time in different classrooms in different schools watching the system in action.

It's not that FCPS is in decline. It's that your kid has a cell phone, and you just cannot imagine how much that time and attention sink is hurting his/her education.

Ok Ryan!

I have copied this post from another poster, but I think it deserves to be in this thread too.

"Since the 2002-2003 school year, the F/R lunch average across FCPS high schools has gone from 17% to 27%. The spread from the poorest (Justice) to wealthiest (Langley) has increased quite a bit. The gap between those two was just under 46%, now it is 59%. We are undoubtedly importing poverty and the poorer schools are seeing the brunt of the impact. Please stop voting for people, at all levels, who don't understand this is a problem."

I spend a lot of time in different classrooms in different schools watching the system in action.

It's not that FCPS is in decline. It's that your kid has a cell phone, and you just cannot imagine how much that time and attention sink is hurting his/her education.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our School Board is a great example of the problem. Look where their focus is. It's not on education.

People have to cross party lines. Most of the Democrats on the School Board are left-wing nut jobs and horrible stewards of public resources. The Republicans on the Board may be more conservative than the typical county resident, but at least they are focused on education and fiscal responsibility.

Wow. No bias here!

Ever watch a School Board meeting? Their interests are not in the classroom.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our School Board is a great example of the problem. Look where their focus is. It's not on education.

People have to cross party lines. Most of the Democrats on the School Board are left-wing nut jobs and horrible stewards of public resources. The Republicans on the Board may be more conservative than the typical county resident, but at least they are focused on education and fiscal responsibility.

Wow. No bias here!

The problem is that the political parties endorse the candidates--so people just vote party.

It appears that lots of the nominees are looking to get a step into politics this way--which, I think, was not the intention. Theoretically, the candidates all run as non-partisan, but the people who get the endorsements are almost always party activists. Why are so many stepping into political races if this were not so?

Dalia
Ryan
Storck
Kory
K. Smith
etc.

Anonymous wrote:Our School Board is a great example of the problem. Look where their focus is. It's not on education.

People have to cross party lines. Most of the Democrats on the School Board are left-wing nut jobs and horrible stewards of public resources. The Republicans on the Board may be more conservative than the typical county resident, but at least they are focused on education and fiscal responsibility.

Anonymous wrote:Our School Board is a great example of the problem. Look where their focus is. It's not on education.

+1,000

How do we fix this??

Our School Board is a great example of the problem. Look where their focus is. It's not on education.

Well, the Damascus High School principal didn't report for 12 hours to police that four of her 14-year-old male students had been raped with broomsticks and didn't lose her job. So maybe those of us in FCPS have less to complain about.

Come on FCPS! MCPS would have 10 pages on a topic like this by now!

Anonymous wrote:I graduated from fcps a little over 20 yrs ago and started there in kindergarten.

I children have the worst Principal I’ve ever seen in all my days. I don’t understand how this woman is even employed, but FCPS lets her get away with some of the craziest stuff. Fcps does not treat the students and their families as they should.

Think we went to this school