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Anonymous wrote:To PP: I didn't mean to make you upset about the overcrowded households and code enforcement. I was simply stating a fact. That's what ffx county won't enforce overcrowded households. Homeless families are huge financial burdens on any jurisdiction. I don't think any childern (including yours) should suffer a bad education. I think all fcps should be great schools. Hopefully with 3 new school board members we will see some change.

Given the high ESOL population, the only way to fix the problem is enforcing the housing code or gentrification of the area. Sticking that high percentage of high needs kids in any school, even if it's smaller in size, will always result in low performing schools. The 3 New school board members will make no difference on this front.

Anonymous wrote:To PP: I didn't mean to make you upset about the overcrowded households and code enforcement. I was simply stating a fact. That's what ffx county won't enforce overcrowded households. Homeless families are huge financial burdens on any jurisdiction. I don't think any childern (including yours) should suffer a bad education. I think all fcps should be great schools. Hopefully with 3 new school board members we will see some change.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

And the county has decided to place that burden on the taxpayers in that area and their kids, instead of finding a solution that didn't place the burden on one segment of taxpayers. I don't think ignoring laws is how you go about solving problems. Maybe since you do, your child can trade places with one of the kids at Bailey's or Stuart whose parents are sick of the county putting the burden on their kids.

Best idea is to move elsewhere

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Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

And the county has decided to place that burden on the taxpayers in that area and their kids, instead of finding a solution that didn't place the burden on one segment of taxpayers. I don't think ignoring laws is how you go about solving problems. Maybe since you do, your child can trade places with one of the kids at Bailey's or Stuart whose parents are sick of the county putting the burden on their kids.

Best idea is to move elsewhere

Timely story on improvements at Stuart.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/this-high-school-was-struggling-but-a-community-was-able-to-turn-it-around/2015/11/08/89d3ce56-84c1-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html

In 2015, Stuart High ranked worse than 93.5% of high schools in Virginia. It also ranked last among 28 ranked high schools in the Fairfax County Public Schools District.

I know you know how to do nothing other than to post excerpts from the useless SchoolDigger site, but Stuart had SATs in 2015 that were about the national average and also sent a kid off to Harvard.

You think that the best of stuart are the same as the best of another place? lol

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Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

And the county has decided to place that burden on the taxpayers in that area and their kids, instead of finding a solution that didn't place the burden on one segment of taxpayers. I don't think ignoring laws is how you go about solving problems. Maybe since you do, your child can trade places with one of the kids at Bailey's or Stuart whose parents are sick of the county putting the burden on their kids.

Best idea is to move elsewhere

Timely story on improvements at Stuart.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/this-high-school-was-struggling-but-a-community-was-able-to-turn-it-around/2015/11/08/89d3ce56-84c1-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html

In 2015, Stuart High ranked worse than 93.5% of high schools in Virginia. It also ranked last among 28 ranked high schools in the Fairfax County Public Schools District.

I know you know how to do nothing other than to post excerpts from the useless SchoolDigger site, but Stuart had SATs in 2015 that were about the national average and also sent a kid off to Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

And the county has decided to place that burden on the taxpayers in that area and their kids, instead of finding a solution that didn't place the burden on one segment of taxpayers. I don't think ignoring laws is how you go about solving problems. Maybe since you do, your child can trade places with one of the kids at Bailey's or Stuart whose parents are sick of the county putting the burden on their kids.

Best idea is to move elsewhere

Timely story on improvements at Stuart.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/this-high-school-was-struggling-but-a-community-was-able-to-turn-it-around/2015/11/08/89d3ce56-84c1-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html

In 2015, Stuart High ranked worse than 93.5% of high schools in Virginia. It also ranked last among 28 ranked high schools in the Fairfax County Public Schools District.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

And the county has decided to place that burden on the taxpayers in that area and their kids, instead of finding a solution that didn't place the burden on one segment of taxpayers. I don't think ignoring laws is how you go about solving problems. Maybe since you do, your child can trade places with one of the kids at Bailey's or Stuart whose parents are sick of the county putting the burden on their kids.

Best idea is to move elsewhere

Timely story on improvements at Stuart.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/this-high-school-was-struggling-but-a-community-was-able-to-turn-it-around/2015/11/08/89d3ce56-84c1-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html

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Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

And the county has decided to place that burden on the taxpayers in that area and their kids, instead of finding a solution that didn't place the burden on one segment of taxpayers. I don't think ignoring laws is how you go about solving problems. Maybe since you do, your child can trade places with one of the kids at Bailey's or Stuart whose parents are sick of the county putting the burden on their kids.

Best idea is to move elsewhere

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Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

And the county has decided to place that burden on the taxpayers in that area and their kids, instead of finding a solution that didn't place the burden on one segment of taxpayers. I don't think ignoring laws is how you go about solving problems. Maybe since you do, your child can trade places with one of the kids at Bailey's or Stuart whose parents are sick of the county putting the burden on their kids.

Anonymous wrote:They don't enforce the codes bc it would make the families homeless.

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Anonymous wrote:After reading this thread I realize how segregated fcps are. FCPS should do a better job of integrating schools with different incomes and then hopefully more kids get a better education.
Practically speaking there would be too much protest to ever make that happen

The county can make a huge, immediate impact on this by enforcing housing codes in Bailey's Crossroads. No need to bus kids away from their neighborhoods to achieve balance. As other pps have noted, the housing codes in Culmore are totally not enforced. There are sometimes three families living in one bedroom apartments. That results in overcrowding of the schools, and significantly affects the SES balance of the schools, resulting in adverse results on test scores and actual learning. I guarantee you, if Fairfax County didn't allow violations of these codes to go on in such a rampant fashion, the schools in the eastern part of the county would be in way better shape. This is the truth, but this will never happen.

+1000. Kids wouldn't have to go to school in an office building in Seven Corners if housing codes were enforced.

With the new projections by Facilities, the growth is not anticipated to be as large as originally thought.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=A3R2BE6B7D31