Anonymous wrote:Are the Dranesville candidates holding any meet and greets this fall?

There's an at-large forum:

At-Large School Board FCPS School Board and Chair of the Board of Supervisors Candidate Forum
Monday, September 23, 2019
7:00 PM 9:30 PM
Fairfax County Government Center
12000 Government Center ParkwayFairfax, VA, 22035United States (map)

Anonymous wrote:That is the first thing that I think of when someone talks about equity across a school system: disparity in programming. Unfortunately the SB doesn’t seem to define equity in this way. I am not sure how they define it and I don’t think they’re sure either.

Equal access by each building to the same demographic mix of students?

Are the Dranesville candidates holding any meet and greets this fall?

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Anonymous wrote:www.ardavan2019.com

Won't have my vote. His first priority is bogus. There haven't been any MS/HS boundary changes in Dranesville in over 25 years. Does. not. mention. class. sizes. at all.

Class sizes are important. Every school board member should be concerned with class size.

If he's a one issue candidate I doubt he'll get far.

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Anonymous wrote:Herndon High Parents only - all Dranesville candidates are advocating for keeping Langley students at Langley. What would you like your representative to do for you and our high school? I don't have kids there yet so are there things you would like to see changed?

One thing I would like to know in terms of equity is whether the same AP classes are running at Herndon (I mean actually running, not just listed in the course catalog) vs. another high school like McLean.

Not a Herndon parent, but I would also like to know if Herndon is able to run the same AP classes as the nearby high schools.

What does the PTA have to say about issues like this?

The only way to survive Herndon is to go AP. Otherwise you don’t get educated

Anonymous wrote:Looks to me like Herndon's offerings are quite respectable. There is plenty there for an advanced student.

Definitely decent.

Looks to me like Herndon's offerings are quite respectable. There is plenty there for an advanced student.

Anonymous wrote:This is another interesting chart compiled by FCAG: http://www.fcag.org/documents/Fairfax+County+AP+IB+Challenge+Index+2017+2018.pdf

The information for Herndon on this chart for 2018 is fairly similar to that for West Springfield, which has substantially less poverty than Herndon.

Keep in mind students can take AP exams without actually taking the class, so the difference in the number of classes offered may have been less than six.

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Anonymous wrote:Herndon High Parents only - all Dranesville candidates are advocating for keeping Langley students at Langley. What would you like your representative to do for you and our high school? I don't have kids there yet so are there things you would like to see changed?

One thing I would like to know in terms of equity is whether the same AP classes are running at Herndon (I mean actually running, not just listed in the course catalog) vs. another high school like McLean.

Not a Herndon parent, but I would also like to know if Herndon is able to run the same AP classes as the nearby high schools.

What does the PTA have to say about issues like this?

FCAG has some good information about AP and IB participation at high schools in FCPS. For example, you can see that, in 2017, Herndon students took 1622 AP exams in 26 subjects, with an average score of 3.06 and limited participation in three subjects, whereas (1) Langley students took 2485 AP exams in 32 subjects, with an average score of 3.84 and limited participation in six subjects and (2) McLean students took 2334 AP exams in 32 subjects, with an average score of 3.74 and limited participation in six subjects.

http://www.fcag.org/apib.shtml

Interesting information. But, a lot of this is reflected by the type of population--not necessarily the instruction My main concern, as a parent, would be the offerings. Obviously, the more kids you have taking AP classes, the more classes/subjects will be offered. It's up to my kid, then, to make a good score with the help of the teacher. The scores are likely to reflect the quality of the students, but for equity, you need the offerings.
It appears that there are six more offerings in AP at Langley and McLean, but that does not seem significant to me. It depends on what they are. Twenty-six AP subjects seems like a respectable number.

This is another interesting chart compiled by FCAG: http://www.fcag.org/documents/Fairfax+County+AP+IB+Challenge+Index+2017+2018.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Herndon High Parents only - all Dranesville candidates are advocating for keeping Langley students at Langley. What would you like your representative to do for you and our high school? I don't have kids there yet so are there things you would like to see changed?

One thing I would like to know in terms of equity is whether the same AP classes are running at Herndon (I mean actually running, not just listed in the course catalog) vs. another high school like McLean.

Not a Herndon parent, but I would also like to know if Herndon is able to run the same AP classes as the nearby high schools.

What does the PTA have to say about issues like this?

FCAG has some good information about AP and IB participation at high schools in FCPS. For example, you can see that, in 2017, Herndon students took 1622 AP exams in 26 subjects, with an average score of 3.06 and limited participation in three subjects, whereas (1) Langley students took 2485 AP exams in 32 subjects, with an average score of 3.84 and limited participation in six subjects and (2) McLean students took 2334 AP exams in 32 subjects, with an average score of 3.74 and limited participation in six subjects.

http://www.fcag.org/apib.shtml

Anonymous wrote:Herndon High Parents only - all Dranesville candidates are advocating for keeping Langley students at Langley. What would you like your representative to do for you and our high school? I don't have kids there yet so are there things you would like to see changed?

One thing I would like to know in terms of equity is whether the same AP classes are running at Herndon (I mean actually running, not just listed in the course catalog) vs. another high school like McLean.

Not a Herndon parent, but I would also like to know if Herndon is able to run the same AP classes as the nearby high schools.

What does the PTA have to say about issues like this?

Anonymous wrote:1. Eliminate magnet schools.
2. Eliminate centers.
3. Eliminate IB.

I don't think there are any IB schools in Dranesville, though part of Dranesville (Pimmit Hills) is zoned for Marshall.

That is the first thing that I think of when someone talks about equity across a school system: disparity in programming. Unfortunately the SB doesn’t seem to define equity in this way. I am not sure how they define it and I don’t think they’re sure either.