Floris Parent, why don't you arrange a meeting with Bruce Butler and ask him your questions. He will give you a full and fair hearing. Visit the school and see what it will offer your children and I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
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foxmill/carson/oakton parent Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I see, if my kids go to SL, I can also sign them > up for AP classes. A win/win situation!! > > > (what's that? I have to pay for these extra > classes? how much? ^&%&^**%) > FTA: She said the school district would have paid the online fee, as it did for her other son,
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AP or IB, I don't know the answer about Mass. I seem to remember that they were pretty tough in their approach, but obviously a state can't afford to lose 50% of their teachers at once. I believe that prior to these events, teachers did not have to take any kind of standards tests in Mass. I took the Praxis tests several years ago, when thinking about earning a masters in teaching. Entering g
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Quantum, the first step in improving education in Massachusetts was teacher testing. When they first initiated testing requirements for teachers 10 or so years ago, I remember reading that over 50% failed. Failing teachers were replaced with better ones. The State then initiated testing based in part of Virginia Standards of Learning. It sounds like they have bested Fairfax County by introduci
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Neen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great advice but I fear Stephanie and her friends > would find that having fun was not a good use of > their time when they could be studying for their > higher than HL physics class, volunteering at the > battered women's shelter, tutoring minority > children at McNair, running 15 miles in the snow, > up h
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Forum Reader Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SLVerity Wrote: > > I rather doubt that the SC school got credit > for > > her score. When you register for the SAT, you > > indicate your high school. If you attend a > > private HS, the score is registered for that > > school. > > Makes perfect sense to me, but how are we s
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My children attended South Lakes but did not take one SAT test there. They took the tests at Herndon and Oakton, because those slots best fit their schedule. Do you think Herndon or Oakton got credit for their scores? My niece, a South Lakes student, took her SAT in South Carolina but I rather doubt that the SC school got credit for her score. When you register for the SAT, you indicate your
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Floris Parent Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interesting Stat and graph to look at. > > http://www.fcta.org/GIFSFC04ADV/FC04StaffTwo.html Interesting. Top-heavy admin, or extra staff needed to educate special needs populations (ESOL, ED, LD)? I'd love to know.
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Pity the sanctimonious poster who has to deal with so many 'misstatements.' It must be painful to have to suffer through the effort it takes to provide so many examples to the less enlightened rubes on this site.
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Forum Reader, does that mean that test scores reported at all FCPS schools are invalid, since all most certainly have test-takers who are not enrolled? If South Lakes, for example, had a big upward swing, would you argue that it was due to home-schooled or privately educated test-takers bringing the scores up? How would you explain the big drop at Oakton last year? Would it be explained by h
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Baffled Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quoting this above...it is very difficult to > "precisely" even out the enrollment numbers of all > schools given a number of factors based on > mobility, pupil placement, open enrollment, > projections of how many students would come, all > that stuff. You can play with semantics all you want. Give it
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Oakton Parent: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you go out of your way to be gratuitously offensive? Mobility is directly correlated to socioeconomic status. Ask your school board rep. There are other factors as well, but socio-economic status is at the top, which would explain why the mobility at IB schools is higher, since the program has been placed at lower-p
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Floris Parent Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SLVerity Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Floris Parent, > > > > Higher than what? What are you trying to say? > > > > Mobility is directly correlated to % of > > disadvantaged kids at the school. Poorer > families > > hav
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Floris Parent, Higher than what? What are you trying to say? Mobility is directly correlated to % of disadvantaged kids at the school. Poorer families have less stable living situations. South Lakes is in the middle range, at 17.20%, and is less than double that of Oakton, Westfield and Chantilly, yet South Lakes has 3 times more FRM students. So why is the mobility rate at those three sch
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Floris Parent Wrote: > > It may be that in a few years, South Lakes will > decide to model their academic offering after the > top schools in the area like Oakton, Langley, > Westfield and Madison, rather than to path that > they are currently on. What makes Westfield top-rated? Are you sure it is? Westfield 2007 SAT 1616, South Lakes 2007 SAT 1596, a twenty point differenc
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What is the ratio for MMR students/teachers?
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quantum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Floris - I can easily see why the South Lakes > parents who post here - i.e., the parents of the > kids who make it through the full IB diploma, send > their kids to South Lakes. Dear, dear Quantum, You know that you and I are in sync when it comes to many political topics and as an aside, I would love to di
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Forum Reader Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SLVerity Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > You are shocked that people disagree at a board > > meeting? Silly me, I thought that was how the > > process worked. > > Have you watched or attended many public school > board meetings? Consensus is t
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TM, please provide proof for the following statement (if I am not mistaken, you are the one who actually introduced it about 100 pages back): "We've heard about teachers expecting entire plays and novels to be read over a weekend with tests on the entire content the following class meeting (Monday or Tuesday depending if your green or blue)." By proof, I mean a syllabus, or Blackboard.com assig
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You are shocked that people disagree at a board meeting? Silly me, I thought that was how the process worked.
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Neen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >>>Madison and McLean are both projected to be > overcrowded<<< > > I do not see how that can happen given that Vienna > and McLean (the part that serves McLean HS) are > almost totally built out. Where will these > students come from? > Haven't you said yourself that houses in Vie
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HooTribe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SLVerity: yes, Hoo as in UVA - Tribe is for W&M > (double dipper of the state school system). > > FoxMillDad: I know you are against the boundary > change, but will your kids come to SL or will you > make other plans? I wish you well whichever way > you decide. Well, WahooWa to you. College 198
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Please, don't say 'even SLV.' Do you want to give me a complex?
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You know, my spouse rides the bus most every day with the same SB member, because they happen to commute at the same time. Does that mean my spouse has undo access, or is just trying make a living?
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Fox Mill Dad and HooTribe(as in wahoo?): South Lakes houses an Mildly to Severely Mentally Retarded magnet that pulls in around 150 students from surrounding districts. We also have a significant ESOL population, so our general ed program really houses 1200 or less students. I believe that we have the smallest general ed population in the County. The problem is with the Master schedule. If J
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SLHS Padre Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Neen used "consensus" in the Castro/Kibaki way ("I > see no one is opposed to what I say...so I'll say > it for the next five hours". > > She and you -- by association -- follow the > Malcolm X credo of "By Any Means Necessary." > Right on with your bad selves. I think (opinion, not fact) that t
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Forum Reader Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Parent Wrote: > > Poedophile free school. Something Chantilly > > can't. > > Glass houses and throwing stones. I totally agree, Forum Reader. Watershed moment! Many schools in Fairfax have had similar employees and they are not a reflection on the school.
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Neen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > According to today's Washington Post, the new > boundary changes will reduce the NUMBER of free > and reduced lunch children. I wonder where they > will go? > Since when did you believe everything you read in the Wash Post?
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Neen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It appears you had a bit of a Freudian reading > slip. I guess it was a school bus where SLVerity > met you, I mean, met her school board member. > > PSSSTTTT......SLVerity doesn't commute anywhere > since she isn't working outside the home. But, > bless your heart, you are trying. > > Now, can
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Forum Reader Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So let's get back to the discussion. You write, "I > am willing to compromise by making the program at > South Lakes a blended one." I keep writing that in > FCPS you cannot have both programs in the same > high school. Are you willing to listen to and > discuss reasons why not? I guess I am a can-do
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