But it doesn't make sense for Floris kids to travel through McNair to Coppermine, unless they plan to move the Floris west of Centreville to Coppermine, which doesn't make any sense either. planner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > McNair students north of the toll road will return > to an elementary school in the Herndon pyramid, > most likely Hutchison,
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I have to say I don't like this self-complacent attitude. And to be frank, I hear similar type of comments from a corporate -- like 'we are the best/biggest in the industry...', more often than not, the company is not too far from sliding into trouble. If we keep thinking we are the best while hiding from facing and solving the real issues, I can see FCPS's fame sliding. Already, it's not just
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"We have 22,000 employees (not including bus drivers, janitors, cafeteria workers), with only about 8,000 of them actually teaching children." That is really a big wow! Shouldn't most FCPS employees be teachers?
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I said "...and provide necessary help". At least that can help them better than just add roughly 50% more students, won't you agree?
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For my humble opinion, what can really help the bottom part of students is hope or motivation. Assuming there's enough help from the county, as shown with more funding and higher staff:student ratio, give them hope that they can really work hard and change their life and provide necessary help. This is much better than just ranting again and again how they're from disfunctional families, they a
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Why SLHS cannot conduct a Woodson style survey, where pro-IB and pro-AP folks have equal number of representatives in a committee and conduct the research/survey? Is the results too obvious? Uh, I forget, they don't want majority rules.
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How many people are "messing around" before this RD? Let me return the 'favor', if we are not "cherry-picked", we don't mind/care whether you want IB/AP. Unfortunately, through this RD, I realize different voices/choices are not well accepted in SLHS. All the new students are treated just as numbers. Everything is just about SLHS. That's is it. "Here's the difference. Now pay attention. Nobody a
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That shows a need for another magnet school. And MAJORITY of GT kids go back to AP schools. TJ Shales Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh and hmmm interesting. GT kids are forced to go > back to schools that include general ed. Too bad. > Shouldn't they all be allowed to vote to go to TJ?
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Bottom line, IB should be a volunteer program. Let's use Japanese Immersion as an example. Fox Mill has a very successful JI program and at the beginning grade, 50% of the students enrolled in. Floris folks are upset when they lost the JI program. As a volunteer program, it's very popular and desired. Now, what will happen if you turn Floris or Fox Mill into a JI only school, when the majority o
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Why do we have to figure this out? We didn't choose IB. The key word is choice. There's no point argueing whether AP is better than IB or vice versa. "I'm not going to take time to tell you why you're wrong. You won't listen to me anyway. You need to figure this out for yourself or call the school and talk to the math chair. (You can begin IB SL or HL in 10th grade. Capice?) "
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Reston High or a magnet following Hunters Woods model? "and where would that leave for South Lakes? Sounds like it could be converted to a fcps administration building since it was renovated at 60 million instead of about to blow another 60 million on a new administration building "
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"But Bruce Butler can't do clean-up and run around with a pooper scooper to make up for all the other deficiencies in this Pyramid starting in the earlier grades. " Exactly. Fix Hughes or even lower grades, SLHS will see improvement without any RD'd kids.
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"How many kids were in that for each grade?" There used to be one or two JI classes each grade, so over 25%? I haven't looked at the actual data, just give you an idea.
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About growth, Floris hasn't seen new developments, except a few homes, since 2001. So if you take in Coppermine, you are saying the development outside of Floris nearly a decade later still impact us? And I haven't mention the Japanese Immerson change and GT centers changes, which do impact a lot of families. What is wrong to ask for stability?
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Oakton Parent, Then scratch the idea of relieve Chantilly, which is hard to do, given its scope, and Westfield, which is NOT over crowded. Why bother to stick to something with shaky foundation? It's not the right thing to argue who should be RD'd at this time. The SB is again playing neighbours VS neighbours trick. One more time, I'm trying to stress the importance to STOP this RD.
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Hornetsting, which one of the following boundary change looks like joke to you? • 1998 – Floris Elementary / Fox Mill Elementary • 1999 – Franklin Middle School / Rachel Carson Middle School • 2000 – Oakton HS / Westfield HS • 2001 – Floris Elementary / McNair Elementary • 2007 – West County Boundary Study (Westfield / South Lakes) • 2008 – Coppermine / Floris / McNair Elementary Floris has to
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Can you tell me some boundary changes in the past few years in the area that doesn't have Floris involved?
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Oakton Parent, About island, can you look at the map and tell me what remaining McNair and the Oak Hill boundary shipped to WFH look like? Yes, on map it doesn't look so, except the boundary they share with Floris has very few students. About relieving WFH, I'm sick of it. The school has a *permanent* capacity of 3100. It's not very efficient to ship a few hundred student out. Chantilly is at l
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Didn't the county say condos and apartments don't yield much high school students? Or are they expecting the airport and industrial zones will help boost enrollment as well? Wait a second, does the low enrollment projection only apply to SLHS? Where do you see the projection WFH will be at 3000 within 5 years? Are you saying the county is wrong again, or are you just trying to help K&S?
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They should just stop, period.
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You are special because you meet their cherry pick standard. Not trying to throw anyone on the bus, but isn't it insane to drag so many families, communities into this? The only saving grace is stop the RD, the madness, the plotted options hoping communities fighting communities. With liberal pupil placement, what on earth this RD will gain?
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Why stop the whole thing is not option? The county said SB didn't provide such option. Why S&K is so determined?
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Why does SLHS think kids from outside communities can fix SLHS? Since when RD is used to fix a school?
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What a fun. The most popular word for the RD is madness, craziness. It's beyond fairness, process improvement, etc. It's purely shock, disblief. I'm so amused now, though I'm the lucky one stu is so determined to get. After all, what do we really achieve?
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South Lakes Pyramid parent, Bottom line is IB should not be forced to anyone, which bring back the topics on an IB focused school. It'll increase the number of IB students, and hopefully IB classes, and there'll be less contension for classes/resources. Maybe this is a good time to make a loud voice and make the school board realize they can actually create a win-win solution?
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And the school board choose to ignore Floris.
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What need to be done to push it to IB or to SLHS? "Focus grants are not applicable to the IB program."
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How about a focused IB school? It looks like the board is making room for focused school funding? In 64.02: "Focus Schools Program $1.0 million " Reduce the expansion of full day kindergarten from $5.7 million to $1.4 million effectively reducing the number of new full day kindergarten programs being introduced from 21 to 5. U Resulting in a savings of $4.3 millionU • Postpone the expansion of t
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http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=92962&paper=66&cat=104 "The opening of Coppermine is likely to affect the McNair and Hutchinson elementary school boundaries, said School Board members during the meeting. " I wonder, do we really need to spend all the money to build a new elemenatry NOW? I don't see new constructions, and the current schools are able to accomadate
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Umm, maybe there not a single student living in these 2000 units. I wonder what is the county's projection for multi-dwelling units based on.
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