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Anonymous wrote:TJ is also the #1 school in the nation.

Once again, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been named the No. 1 high school in the U.S.

https://wtop.com/local/2021/04/several-local-high-schools-rank-as-some-of-the-best-in-the-nation/

Shocker. A highly-selective-entry school in one of the richest, most educated areas of the country is first. What a come-from-behind win. I'm sure TJ would hold onto that top position if they were required to serve a geographic boundary population.

It's impressive that FCPS has not only TJ, but also 9 of the top 10 in the state, even when the feeder middle schools to several of those schools (particularly Oakton, McLean, Langley, and Chantilly) send so many kids to TJ.

It's really not. FCPS primarily gets kids from UMC/wealthy families from an area with one of the largest concentrations of highly-educated adults of highly-educated adults in the country. FCPS is not working miracles, it's getting kids who have support from home (parents and tutors) and resources. FCPS is doing great by my academically advanced child, but I am thoroughly unimpressed by how they have handled my average kids' education. My public HS is in the 80s on the list and managed to serve not just the college bound (AP school), but also the vocational students and grade-level/remedial kids. FCPS does not seem to have a clue what to do with kids that don't come pre-programmed for academic success.

Anonymous wrote:Primary reason I moved out of PWC. However, if DOE of Fairfax County gets their liberal agenda through this list will look different in about 6-7 years. Sorry, but trying to accomplish equity by lowering standards doesnt make rational sense.

What is the “DOE of Fairfax County”? Those right wing talking points are not very personalized for localities, are they?

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Anonymous wrote:Primary reason I moved out of PWC. However, if DOE of Fairfax County gets their liberal agenda through this list will look different in about 6-7 years. Sorry, but trying to accomplish equity by lowering standards doesnt make rational sense.

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You are correct. Which is why I am so glad my kids are almost done with this ridiculous school system. What a shame - it used to be excellent.

We have discovered the hard way the downside of electing School Board members from a single party and employing a used car salesman of a Superintendent who sucks up to them. Fortunately, elections are two years away and we have a chance to get rid of Frisch, Tholen, Cohen, etc.

Oh look, Governor DeSantis trolling the DCUM school boards.

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Anonymous wrote:Primary reason I moved out of PWC. However, if DOE of Fairfax County gets their liberal agenda through this list will look different in about 6-7 years. Sorry, but trying to accomplish equity by lowering standards doesnt make rational sense.

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You are correct. Which is why I am so glad my kids are almost done with this ridiculous school system. What a shame - it used to be excellent.

We have discovered the hard way the downside of electing School Board members from a single party and employing a used car salesman of a Superintendent who sucks up to them. Fortunately, elections are two years away and we have a chance to get rid of Frisch, Tholen, Cohen, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Primary reason I moved out of PWC. However, if DOE of Fairfax County gets their liberal agenda through this list will look different in about 6-7 years. Sorry, but trying to accomplish equity by lowering standards doesnt make rational sense.

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You are correct. Which is why I am so glad my kids are almost done with this ridiculous school system. What a shame - it used to be excellent.

Primary reason I moved out of PWC. However, if DOE of Fairfax County gets their liberal agenda through this list will look different in about 6-7 years. Sorry, but trying to accomplish equity by lowering standards doesnt make rational sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Langley was still way down from Whitman, FCPS still chasing MoCo

Hmmm... FCPS has 5 high schools in top 1% nationwide and MoCo has 2. I think you may have been confused by the rankings

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The poor PP. So insecure that she actually has to troll the FCPS forum to try and get a plug in for MoCo.

Anonymous wrote:Langley was still way down from Whitman, FCPS still chasing MoCo

Hardly. Whitman kids aren’t going to the #1 school in the country in large numbers as are students from the Langley pyramid.

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Anonymous wrote:Langley was still way down from Whitman, FCPS still chasing MoCo

Hmmm... FCPS has 5 high schools in top 1% nationwide and MoCo has 2. I think you may have been confused by the rankings

You mean the two raked ahead of Langley?

Anonymous wrote:Langley was still way down from Whitman, FCPS still chasing MoCo

Hmmm... FCPS has 5 high schools in top 1% nationwide and MoCo has 2. I think you may have been confused by the rankings

Langley was still way down from Whitman, FCPS still chasing MoCo

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Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

It shouldn't be.

The focus on these artificial hierarchies and reifying them with our attention and emotional energy is a major part of the problem in our western patriarchal capitalist construct.

We need to embrace students and communities wherever and whoever they are without defining them according to how they are ranked in a publication owned by a far off billionaire. Their value is not found on a list.

It's a positive feedback loop.

The more the wealthy areas are "highly ranked", the more the wealthy people will segregate themselves into those wealthy areas.

How those with more material wealth (real wealth is not measured by bank accounts and credit scores) make their decisions on where they should live is not a reflection on the inherent worth of the people who live in and around our various school communities.

Of course they do. UMC/rich people like to stick together.

And of course bank accounts matter.

That's what taxes are for.

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Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

It is because idiots like you without basic comprehension skills. It is not top NINE schools in the entire country. It is just in Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:But according to this forum FCPS is the worse school district ever?

Worst

This list shows how good FCPS is at concentrating poverty in a few high schools. It’s embarrassing that the same district has the top ten and a school too low to list

How is this embarrassing?

There will always be good and bad neighborhoods anywhere you go. This is not unique to FCPS.

People will complain about anything

Your kid has the opportunity to go to one of the NINE top schools in the entire country just by living here and all you do is b$%^h?

Those sorts of people are never happy.

You mean....richest schools. OK, congrats?

If it's the richest schools, why don't Alexandria and Arlington rank high?

Because neither groups the poors together in their own high schools as efficiently as FCPS

Alexandria only has one high school, and people in South Arlington might disagree with you about the concentration of poverty at Wakefield compared to Yorktown.

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Anonymous wrote:So many IB schools at the bottom.

Ummm, if you can’t see that it’s about socio-economics, you’re not very bright. It’s segregation 2021.

Not only is Marshall the only IB school in the top 10 in FCPS, but it has the highest percentage of socioeconomic disadvantaged students in the top 10. Not bad for #4. They must be doing something right over there.

They got permission from FCPS several years ago to make IB English the default English class for 11th and 12th graders. It brings up the college readiness component of the US News ratings. Other high schools are required by FCPS to let students choose among regular, Honors, or AP/IB English.

The charitable interpretation would be they want to challenge their students; the less charitable interpretation would be they are chasing US News ratings. Madison still has higher SAT scores.