With everything that has taken place over the last few years regarding boundary issues, NCLB, lower SAT scores, high drop out rates and unsafe schools, I think it would be fair to review the SB actions or lack of.

How would you rate the FCPS SB performance?

those b*****ds don't give a s**t

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those bastards don't give a shit

how fucking lame of you. if people know what you mean, why not just say what you mean, you dumb shit.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Oh God! Here we go again with some soccer redistricting Mom trying to break up the school board in hopes that she can get elected and give her kid special treatment.

$20,000 dollars a year isn't enough to interest quality candidates. The positions should be full time and a salary of about $100,000.

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> how fucking lame of you. if people know what you
> mean, why not just say what you mean, you dumb
> shit.

because forum administrators tend to be nazis over this kind of thing (language)..

as if i gave a shit, Gravis.

This school board has failed the students of Fairfax County with these results.



FCPS and the School Board do not want you to know these results

Thirty-three percent of Fairfax County Public Schools seniors ready for college
-- Why pay high taxes for low achievement?

According to the ACT college admissions test, only 33 percent of Fairfax County Public Schools seniors are ready for college. See excerpts from the ACT college admissions test 2007 profile (pdf file) for Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS).

This report was obtained from FCPS. However, FCPS does not post it on the school website and does not mention it in its annual budget statement about student achievement.

According to the ACT profile, of the 2,144 FCPS seniors taking the ACT in 2007:

80 percent were prepared for college English composition
64 percent were prepared for college social science
59 percent were prepared for college algebra
39 percent were prepared for college biology.

Overall, 33 percent of FCPS seniors were prepared for college-level study in all four categories.

Statewide and nationwide, 23 percent of Virginia and United States high school seniors were prepared for college-level work in all four categories.

The better-known SAT college admissions test does not identify benchmark scores indicating college readiness.

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> > how fucking lame of you. if people know what
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> because forum administrators tend to be nazis over
> this kind of thing (language)..
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> as if i gave a shit, Gravis.


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learn to read. Did you graduate from South Lakes?

Wastes money and expects us to pay for odd stuff. Not good.

Hopefully Connelly and his people will start asking questions and just say NO on requests. Money that should go for pay for productive employees is wasted on nonsense. Plus our taxes .

I post on the RD thread because I have to pay for what they do [plus costs incurred for what they don't do].

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> learn to read. Did you graduate from South Lakes?


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

FASCIST COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

They did a good job. They sent kids to the schools that they live closest to. My only complaint is that the Oak Hill area doesnt have to go to South Lakes.

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> They did a good job. They sent kids to the schools
> that they live closest to. My only complaint is
> that the Oak Hill area doesnt have to go to South
> Lakes.

Wrong! Try telling that to the Navy community.

Take money away from necessary stuff like the battle against sex offenders, gang prevention , blight . Thursday they are voting on money for South County expansion of the school - more BS .

I think it is time we looked at each individual school within FCPS and evaluate what sort of results we are getting from the dollars we spend.

Let's take a look at Lynbrook Elem in Springfield which feeds into Key/Lee:

The principal makes $118k per year which is an increase of 16% in 3 years.
The asst principal makes $89k per year -works 219 days per year BTW.
One librarian makes $81k per year-works 194 days per year.
One guidance counselor makes $71k per year.
26 K-6 teachers with average salary of $60k-the bright spot-

If you throw in the office staff, custodians, teacher aides, there are 67 staff members at this school. There are 356 students which is a ratio of 5.3 students per employee.

Now what kind of academic results or end product is this business model getting?

Well, according to the school's report card on VA DOE website, we have the following results:

41% of 6th graders failed VA Studies SOL-Va average is 17%
62% of 6th graders failed Math SOL-VA average is 40%
33% of 6th graders failed English SOL-VA average is 16%
29% of 6th graders failed Science SOL-VA average is 12%

This school's annual operating fund is $3.3 million bucks-which is $9300 per student. That does not include building and transportation costs.

There is a reason NY Mayor Bloomberg selected Joel Klein to run NYC schools. He isn't some educational wonk-he was an anti-trust attorney with the DOJ. He doesn't owe the teacher's union anything-he is an outsider. He runs the schools like a business and demands results.

We have got to start running our schools like a business and holding people accountable for performance. Paying a principal over $100k per year when over half her students are failing is a disgrace-and giving her pay raises!

This aversion to accountability does not exist in the business world and it certainly shouldn't exist in our schools.

Sheesh, don't use Lynbrook as an example! The student body is mostly illegal aliens and ESOL.

The staff does the best they can with what they have to work with. Base their pay on the test scores, and no fucking body would be working there.

How about ICE throwing the sumbitches outta here and start enforcing our borders?


We know that ain't going to happen...the fatcat political contributors get their cheap labor and us suckers get to pay the social costs.

This school board is like the energize bunny, it keeps on giving one F__K up after another.

The latest F__K up is the racist Fairfax County Public School Report which Finds Possible Racial Bias in FCPS.

This board is a bit better than the prior group only because there is some discussion-debate. They all thought that getting rd of brickner and Thompson would result in a congenial work environment. Dumbasses. They're a school board- they are supposed to work -debate-argue not always agree with each other like sheep before a dog. What we need are the border collies not the geese on the golf course.

Now they might as well all quit or not even show up - the only votes that count are Storck and Bradsher. Hyland -davis-Albo WERE NOT elected as the at-large school board members.

but they sure do function as them- do hair make-up and costumes and they can sit in for Hone, Raney, and moon. Who should be who?

[My dig at the Supremely Imortant South County Middle School. perhaps give them a bigger addition plus a school and indoor/outdoor pools with 3 articficial turf fields. they do have an outdoor all weather sports bubble. Anyone else get one of those when overcrowded?

Open Letter from Steve Hunt
on School Board Decision to approve
Western Fairfax County Redistricting


On February 28, 2008, School Board member Stu Gibson told a story
about a farmer who did not want to loan his plow to his neighbor. The
punch line, after telling his neighbor that he could not loan the plow
because his wife was sick, was that since he did not want to loan the
plow, it did not matter what excuse he used. Mr. Gibson applied this
to his constituents, who had provided logical researched arguments for
why the boundary change was not the best way to address the impacts of
under-enrollment at South Lakes High School, by stating that all of
their inputs were just excuses as to why they did not want to go to
South Lakes.

The irony is that as a result of this boundary process, the community
sees the roles reversed. Since the school system had decided a
boundary change was the only way to address the issue, it did not
matter what their response was to the community. The concern was that
underenrollment at South Lakes robbed students of academic
opportunities found at other FCPS high schools. It did not matter
when the community found that other small schools were able to provide
those same academic opportunities. It did not matter that the
community provided evidence of over 1,800 6th, 5th, 4th, and 3rd grade
students in the South Lakes pyramid that could become South Lakes 9th
through 12th graders if they stayed in the local public schools.

By refusing to research programmatic solutions for this programmatic
problem, the school system gave the community the perception that
their input did not matter. If programmatic solutions had been
included, one area of discussion could have been how the International
Baccalaureate (IB) requirement to provide all IB courses regardless of
the number of students robs the non-IB students of academic
opportunities since teacher levels are set by total students. A
simple solution would have been to increase the number of teachers at
South Lakes to compensate for the impact of the IB program.

After receiving responses that often did not hold water, the community
is losing faith with the school system, just like the communities in
South County, Vienna, and McLean did after boundary changes there.
Just as the farmer who would not loan the plow may be rejected when he
asks his neighbor for something, a community that has lost faith with
a school system may say no when the school system asks for bonds or
bigger budgets. If you cannot trust the system in one area, why would
you trust it in another? And it is the students that will pay the
price.

Steve Hunt
Fairfax Station
Former Fairfax County School Board Member

This latest gem of a FCPS report just adds credibility to the lawsuit against RD. The SB obviously is totally ignorant about race, socio-economic issues, and is just looking for ways to cover-up problems. I don't pretend to have all the answers as to why an achievement gap exists nor how to fix it, but I think that doing a study that concludes that some minorities have worse "character" is probably the WORST thing the school system could have done. Really, could there have been a dumber idea? I sure how that the anti-RD lawyers can make some good use of this.

HUNT SAID Wrote:
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> Open Letter from Steve Hunt
> on School Board Decision to approve
> Western Fairfax County Redistricting
>
> After receiving responses that often did not hold
> water, the community
> is losing faith with the school system, just like
> the communities in
> South County, Vienna, and McLean did after
> boundary changes there.
> Just as the farmer who would not loan the plow may
> be rejected when he
> asks his neighbor for something, a community that
> has lost faith with
> a school system may say no when the school system
> asks for bonds or
> bigger budgets. If you cannot trust the system in
> one area, why would
> you trust it in another? And it is the students
> that will pay the
> price.
>
> Steve Hunt
> Fairfax Station
> Former Fairfax County School Board Member

The county voters will approve the bonds though. Steve Hunt is trying to threaten the school board but there is no danger of the bonds not passing, unless they really fuck up. Im not sure what the publics reaction to the minority charater report will be tho so we will see.

The Fairfax School Board is doing a great job. They just recently passed some new redistricting that will help to even out the Fairfax School system.

As for bonds, nobody reads the bond issues, they just vote YES. Well, unless the the bond is for putting horses on roofs or some totally stupid idea.

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> The Fairfax School Board is doing a great job.
> They just recently passed some new redistricting
> that will help to even out the Fairfax School
> system.
>
> As for bonds, nobody reads the bond issues, they
> just vote YES. Well, unless the the bond is for
> putting horses on roofs or some totally stupid
> idea.


A great job? How so? Is social engineering a new thing among the SB? That is exactly what they did with the recent redistricting. How about they apply the social engineering idea to South County for when the boundary study begins this fall? Oh that is right, they are gonna build an addition. Yeah right, a great job, my arse. Or better yet, try some of that social engineering to the Mount Vernon district where Storck won't even bother trying.

Isn't this already discussed in the redistricting thread?