Anonymous
05/30/2013 09:21
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
Anonymous wrote:Marshall's website boasts "#3 ranking" but links to its #16 ranking. I guess Marshall's not ready to move on. They posted the #3 when it was based on bad data and they post #3 when the report says #16. What's the excuse now?
http://www.fcps.edu/MarshallHS/
This link's even funnier.
Anonymous
05/30/2013 09:20
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
Anonymous wrote:A friend and I were driving back from Tysons over the weekend. She saw the sign outside of Marshall and expressed surprise the school had risen so high in the rankings. When I told her it was apparently based on some bad data, she said "It's the high school equivalent of giving trophies to every 5-year-old on the soccer team!"
troll fail
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2012/07/20/final-adjustments-to-best-high-schools-rankings
Anonymous
05/30/2013 09:19
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
Yes, in Fairfax County, all of our high schools are winners!
Anonymous
05/30/2013 09:18
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
Anonymous wrote:A friend and I were driving back from Tysons over the weekend. She saw the sign outside of Marshall and expressed surprise the school had risen so high in the rankings. When I told her it was apparently based on some bad data, she said "It's the high school equivalent of giving trophies to every 5-year-old on the soccer team!"
No bad data you turd face
Anonymous
05/30/2013 09:16
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
A friend and I were driving back from Tysons over the weekend. She saw the sign outside of Marshall and expressed surprise the school had risen so high in the rankings. When I told her it was apparently based on some bad data, she said "It's the high school equivalent of giving trophies to every 5-year-old on the soccer team!"
Anonymous
05/29/2013 22:42
Subject: Marshall "3rd for Best School"
yolo
Anonymous
05/29/2013 22:05
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
Anonymous wrote:
Based on your scientific survey, I'm sure. I will say that AP programs are easier to understand -- ie. rote memorization = a passing score, but that doesn't mean they're better. Thankfully, many parents and students in the area are more worldly and capable of the original thinking that IB requires.
This tangent got started when a poster incorrectly claimed, based on 2008-09 data reflected in current GreatSchools profiles, that Marshall has more Asian students than McLean. That was incorrect, as shown previously.
In terms of demographic trends, over a four-year period from 2008 to 2012 in which the percentage of Asian high school students increased as a whole, and went up 3.5% at Langley, 2.1% at McLean, and 1.1% at Madison, it declined 4.3% at Marshall. This seems to be consistent with a widely held view that, given the choice, Asian families in FCPS tend to prefer AP schools to IB schools. It was not intended as a general comment on the respective strengths and weaknesses of AP and IB courses, although it is notable that the AAPAC's recent report to the School Board did specifically recommend that FCPS look for ways to enhance the existing math and science course offerings at the county's IB schools. Conversely, the AAPAC report did not recommend changing the humanities courses at AP schools.
Be that as it may, the poster who previously claimed Marshall has more Asian students than McLean was incorrect.
Anonymous
05/29/2013 20:32
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
great schools test scores shows mclean and marshall on the same level but more poors and asians in marshall. I guess our vatos are smarter than your white jocks lolzzzzxxxxxzz
Lots more Asians at McLean than at Marshall.
Hahaha wrong , look at student demographics
McLean is 21% Asian, Marshall is 16% Asian. There are about 60% more Asian students at McLean than at Marshall, too. When Asian families in Fairfax can afford AP schools, they tend to prefer them over IB schools.
Based on your scientific survey, I'm sure. I will say that AP programs are easier to understand -- ie. rote memorization = a passing score, but that doesn't mean they're better. Thankfully, many parents and students in the area are more worldly and capable of the original thinking that IB requires.
Anonymous
05/27/2013 19:01
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
The GreatSchools information you cited is from the 2008 school year. Since then Marshall's Asian population has declined in both absolute and percentage terms, while the Asian population at McLean has increased. Today, the Asian enrollment at both McLean and Langley exceeds that at Marshall.
http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf
http://www.fcps.edu/it/studentreporting/documents/EthnicRpt12.pdf
Anonymous
05/27/2013 18:46
Subject: Re:Marshall "3rd for Best School"
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
great schools test scores shows mclean and marshall on the same level but more poors and asians in marshall. I guess our vatos are smarter than your white jocks lolzzzzxxxxxzz
Lots more Asians at McLean than at Marshall.
Hahaha wrong , look at student demographics
McLean is 21% Asian, Marshall is 16% Asian. There are about 60% more Asian students at McLean than at Marshall, too. When Asian families in Fairfax can afford AP schools, they tend to prefer them over IB schools.
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/543-Marshall-High-School/?tab=demographics
http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/mclean/545-McLean-High-School/?tab=demographics