Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that expelled and other problem students can be sent to a different school. Is that true? If so, wouldn't FCPS need to provide transportation?

It's called involuntary transfer. I don't know about transportation.

As you might imagine, it typically knocks students off the diploma track.

Transportation is provided by the county. I'm the PP whose child was in a class with a kid (our neighbor) who had serious issues and was finally sent to a center. There is a special bus that comes through our neighborhood and picks up/drops off the student every day. It is not the same bus that goes to the base school or AAP center.

Anonymous wrote:I went to FCPS as a kid and got a solid education, back in the late 70s and 80s. Then I have taught here for 30 years. Here is what has changed in elementary schools.

No textbooks or workbooks. Well, one for social studies that was riddled with errors and corrected. Every lesson has to be downloaded off the computer by a teacher. Every lesson has to show differentiation if a principal walks in. Did you notice the part about no books? I have to group the kids into reading groups and then go find multiple copies of a book to read with them while the rest of them work on something independently and then we switch. I have to keep anecdotal records on every kid in the reading groups, and I can’t help the kids who are working at their seats because I am in a reading group.

I’m supposed to do project based learning along with drilling for Ecart and SOLs. I have to think up projects and find supplies and manage all that while I am keeping data on how many times the three special ed kids get out of their seats and I am checking the kid with autism every ten minutes to give him a token if he has not hit anyone. I have no spelling or grammar books. I’m supposed to teach that as embedded in my writing lessons, as kids are ready. The ESL kid is writing a complete sentence. The AAP kid is writing a book.

For math we are drawing pictures of times tables instead of memorizing them, and I want the kids to do actual problems on paper I must download a worksheet and go copy it.
The behavior is out of control but the principal wants to show reduced statistics so there are no consequences and we are told to not send kids to the office. Kids punch a teacher and arexdight back in class after taking a calming walk with an adult, which is reinforcing to them.
Now we’re going to give every kid a computer so they can increase their screen time?

It breaks my heart, and I’m a teacher who has won teaching awards and honors. I’m sick about it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that expelled and other problem students can be sent to a different school. Is that true? If so, wouldn't FCPS need to provide transportation?

It's called involuntary transfer. I don't know about transportation.

As you might imagine, it typically knocks students off the diploma track.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Link to the Brabrand story: https://wamu.org/story/19/04/03/we-have-fallen-short-fairfax-schools-officials-release-findings-from-isolation-review/#.XKUWkmdSKX0

You're easy to please.

After the accident at Franconia ES, Brabrand also took responsibility, made a statement and halted use of the motorized dividers when children are present.

So you don't have to be concerned about that either.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that expelled and other problem students can be sent to a different school. Is that true? If so, wouldn't FCPS need to provide transportation?

It's called involuntary transfer. I don't know about transportation.

As you might imagine, it typically knocks students off the diploma track.

Not really concerned about their diploma. So you can threaten someone at one school and get sent to another? I wonder if they use the AAP buses for shipping off the problems.

I didn't think you would be. Of course, even UMC kids get caught up in this system. Not your kid. But maybe his friend?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/suicide-turns-attention-to-fairfax-discipline-procedures/2011/02/14/AB9UtxH_story.html?utm_term=.ca58c1b8eeb4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-schools-discipline-under-scrutiny-after-teens-suspension-for-medication/2011/03/08/ABZBiZQ_story.html?utm_term=.1b32ae53ea1d

https://wtop.com/virginia/2015/05/fewer-students-expelled-fairfax-county-ends-zero-tolerance-policy/

Anonymous wrote:PP here. Link to the Brabrand story: https://wamu.org/story/19/04/03/we-have-fallen-short-fairfax-schools-officials-release-findings-from-isolation-review/#.XKUWkmdSKX0

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound beyond hysterical. Statistically, I'd feel more comfortable safety-wise with a child in FCPS than at any number of private schools that have had their own issues and been less transparent about them.

Ah yes, name calling, the last refuge of people on DCUM who can't argue based on issues and facts.

Transparency at FCPS? That's rich. You did hear that they somehow "forgot" to submit several years of federally required seclusion/restraint data to the Office of Civil Rights, right? Or are you ok with this apparent lack of transparency?

https://wamu.org/story/19/03/13/children-are-routinely-isolated-in-some-fairfax-county-schools-the-district-didnt-report-it/

How about this name calling: You sound like an FCPS apologist.

“We have been remiss in our data collection and data reporting requirements for many years,” Brabrand said Tuesday. “I want to publicly acknowledge that my initial public response did not adequately take responsibility and ownership of these issues, nor did they include a plan to suggest the concerns that were noted. And for that, I am fully responsible.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two kids at a FCPS HS and I've been very happy with the education, teachers, and leadership of FCPS. There are some issues to be sure, but I don't see it as a decline, but as continuous refinement.

I have seen a decline in FCPS PARENTS who believe that they are entitled to special treatment and who expect more for less (i.e., higher expectations but with inadequate increases in teacher salary, property tax rates, etc.

Did you mean you’ve seen an increase? I would agree with that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that expelled and other problem students can be sent to a different school. Is that true? If so, wouldn't FCPS need to provide transportation?

It's called involuntary transfer. I don't know about transportation.

As you might imagine, it typically knocks students off the diploma track.

Not really concerned about their diploma. So you can threaten someone at one school and get sent to another? I wonder if they use the AAP buses for shipping off the problems.

I didn't think you would be. Of course, even UMC kids get caught up in this system. Not your kid. But maybe his friend?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/suicide-turns-attention-to-fairfax-discipline-procedures/2011/02/14/AB9UtxH_story.html?utm_term=.ca58c1b8eeb4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-schools-discipline-under-scrutiny-after-teens-suspension-for-medication/2011/03/08/ABZBiZQ_story.html?utm_term=.1b32ae53ea1d

https://wtop.com/virginia/2015/05/fewer-students-expelled-fairfax-county-ends-zero-tolerance-policy/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two kids at a FCPS HS and I've been very happy with the education, teachers, and leadership of FCPS. There are some issues to be sure, but I don't see it as a decline, but as continuous refinement.

I have seen a decline in FCPS PARENTS who believe that they are entitled to special treatment and who expect more for less (i.e., higher expectations but with inadequate increases in teacher salary, property tax rates, etc.

Did you mean you’ve seen an increase? I would agree with that.

Anonymous wrote:Two kids at a FCPS HS and I've been very happy with the education, teachers, and leadership of FCPS. There are some issues to be sure, but I don't see it as a decline, but as continuous refinement.

I have seen a decline in FCPS PARENTS who believe that they are entitled to special treatment and who expect more for less (i.e., higher expectations but with inadequate increases in teacher salary, property tax rates, etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard that expelled and other problem students can be sent to a different school. Is that true? If so, wouldn't FCPS need to provide transportation?

It's called involuntary transfer. I don't know about transportation.

As you might imagine, it typically knocks students off the diploma track.

Not really concerned about their diploma. So you can threaten someone at one school and get sent to another? I wonder if they use the AAP buses for shipping off the problems.