OP, your post opens with the statement, "Has Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology outlived its purpose? That is the question educators and staff are asking." But I don't see any support for the underlined assertion anywhere in the rest of your post.
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a couple serious ideas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Eliminate all the boundary exceptions and even > worse all the special transportation needed for > that. Extremely inefficient. Yes I am looking at > you TJ. If parents want super STEM send them to > camps and private school. Recent Google search > shows STEM isnt the end all be all and
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yourmom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Two issues here: > > 1. The parents are complete loser, white trash, > assholes who didn't pay attention to their > daughter. Your 2 year old does not easily come > into contact w/ a degreasing compound in a store. > How the fuck does that even happen? > > 2. Their 2 year old was at HD at
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Timely post Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I drove by that area today for the first time in > about a year. I still cannot fathom why anyone > would buy a home at that location. Horrible. Yeah, and on a related note, I don't really understand why homes that back up to major roads or have other location issues don't sell for substantially less than ot
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Super Why Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why are there so many god damn roundabouts in the > pic above? To better space cars out so that they go through the main roundabout more efficiently. Also, people heading 50W to 15S or vice-versa don't have to traverse the main one now.
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I hear a useful strategy when attempting to express your ideas to others is to be coherent.
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So this was a "news" article saying there might be an announcement that will tell us when the Silver Line might open? So we've sunk so low that instead of getting excited about the SL opening date, we're now getting spun up over the announcement date concerning the SL opening date. Yikes.
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Although the fact that it's still 15.7% is a little crazy as well. That's about 1 in every 6th student. What a bunch of dumb-dumbs.
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Wow, 36.4 % of high school students were smoking cigarettes in 1997? That seems absurd. I mean, that does say 1997, not 1967, right? Over one in every three students ?!
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V3JeN Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Buying computers? Really? How about asking one > of the vendors to donate some computers. It's > called locking in a customer base from an early > age. Remember when FCPS did that w/ Giant receipts to get Apple equipment back in the early 90's? It never really worked out since PCs were making their way into hom
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Ah, I see the problem in that picture now. It's all that University of Maryland junk hanging from the windows. I'd get rid of that before the computers, ha.
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MBF Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well--it's partially funded ($68M of $90M) in the > county's 6-year-plan: > http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fcdot/cdot/projects/ > approved.htm Ah, that's great to see, although it's still not even the full commitment and may take 6+ years. That's a long time to wait... I'm also confused by this statement: -Constru
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Rafi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This thread was really building some steam, like > the kind that comes off my dog's shit piles. In > all seriousness though, it looks like VDOT has > done nothing to remedy or even try to alleviate > the bullshit that is the Popes Head/286 (or 7100 > for all of your still stuck in 2011) intersection. > >
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I'm surprised more teachers don't buy these and hide them under their desks. Would probably help cut down on students playing w/ cell phones in class.
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I believe her:
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B, A, G, D, C, J, J, missing info, B, C Granted school was a long time ago, but I think those are correct...
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Gotta love this area: Fairfax, VA - both the city itself, and area of county near city. City provides all it's own services and taxation except contracting its school facilities out to be administered by the county Herndon, VA - both the town itself, and the area of county near town. Town provides some services, county runs schools (which has students from both) Vienna, VA - both the town its
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thatguy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HA HA > If you click on the pic for a bigger version, you > get the same photo in a smaller version. Now, you do realize that what you're seeing is a screenshot taken from WTOP's website, and thus "clicking" just takes you to the screenshot itself on FFXU - it doesn't actually interact with the original site...
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jayjay442 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Im sure this has been posted in the past Good guess.
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Now I've known copy editing has gone out the window for a while now, especially with online media, but this is how reporters write real-time as well? Tweet: "It's OVER. Suspect in custody. No injuries. Unknown when rds will reopen sz @fairfax pol ice Bud Walker #WTOP " I mean, given everything else written in there, was it soooo necessary to condense "roads" to 'rds' and "says" to 'sz'. It look
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I've never really understood the need to anonymously flame, race-bait, troll, or otherwise wreak havoc on these boards, but I suppose the question is an interesting one. I see un- or loosely moderated anonymous message boards as the subject for many a sociology PhD thesis in the coming years.
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Huh? I don't get it. The OP's incident happened January 2009 and you post a screenshot of something from June 2009.
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heyyyy6 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You are replying to svennestle, a mentally ill > patient. Thanks for the heads up, though I probably should have made those clarifications in my original post anyway, since I thought the topic might be of interest to the board in general.
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ktNH3 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > moving $300 around on a computer > > ??? wtf ??? > > what do you know ? what are you talking about ? > > absolutely no sense who said she could... Don't put too much thought into it. My only point was that $300 is more than a stack of 10 $20 bills, but interacting with the latter seems to have more o
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Holy 1997, Batman!
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CAAAAASSSSSShhhhh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How much money did she take? Probably not more > than $100.00 > > > Blue collar crimes are not the way to go... Scam > someone if you are desperate, white collar crimes > FTW. Yeah I think there must be something about seeing physical cash that affects people psychologically. I mean, what a
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Yo, Jeff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Are you talking about the western part of the > Woodson district that was already in the district > before the last round of adjustments? That area > seems "safe" (in terms of staying in the Woodson > district) for a long time. There are areas in > Fairfax City that are closer to Woodson than these
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Yo, Jeff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > The Woodson district had the lowest number of > apartments and townhouses of any HS district > except Langley. That is going to change, because > FCPS just moved the Fairfax Villa area (with more > THs/condos) from Fairfax to Woodson and moved part > of Fairfax Station (SFHs) from Woodson to > R
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peoplefight Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > because parents fight to get into the pyramid. > Those in it make every sacrifice to locate in this > pyramid. For better or worse these families place > great value on k-12 education. Same with McLean. > Oakton I have no idea I assume they are pretty > good. Yeah, I would understand that,
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Steerclear Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Woodson has the best academic program of > all the high schools you listed but there have > been many "student deaths" over the past few years > so I would stay cautious of this area. I've been wondering about what makes Woodson stand out so much (it was actually second in the county for SAT scores th
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