Talk:Fairfax County Public Schools

message: FCPS needs to control its student vandalism. My first article has not been up for a month and already it has been vandalized several times. I checked the IP adress and found that it was registered to Fairfax county Public Schools. I also found that this IP has vandalized hundereds of websites. If the creators of this site can do anything about it, please do.
Thank you Very Much,
Princetonhistorian
Most school systems will have this problem, and the only thing then can do about it is block students from comin onto the site, which would cause much controversy. You need to ask admins to block IP. KeepOnTruckin 01:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I removed the first sentence of the "Demographics" subsection, because it read like an advertisement.  Joshua 17:17, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Content 

message: Since it's a pretty standard grading scale. I wouldn't be surprised if it was added by a student who was upset about their grades or something like that. --Ssj4android 01:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed the bit about the grading scale being "the most strenuous in the country" 

message: This isn't about this article, but rather all the FCPS high school articles.  Each high school article has had a demographics section for almost 2 years, but I'm beginning to wonder about their value in the articles.  They're a frequent target for vandals, often several years out of date, and they seem to be just dumped in the article with no relevance to the content before or after.  Additionally, these guidelines: Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools#Sections of the article don't say anything about demographics.  So are the demographics really worth the trouble they cause?  Just putting this out there to gauge opinion. FlamingSilmaril (talk) 17:54, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  School Demographics 

message: Theres a box on the snow day call section questioning its importance. I see it as important because the particular call made national headlines for several days and was seen internationally. KeepOnTruckin Complain to me | my work here 02:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Aside from the flaws in the presentation, it fails notability, e.g., Wikipedia:Notability#Notability is not temporary Tedickey (talk) 09:45, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

text: The idea that this is important enough to justify encyclopedic coverage is absurd. I agree with Tedickey, and shall remove it. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:22, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Snow Day call importance

message: The table lists twenty schools implying that they are high-ranking.  But in the first 100 on the source, only eight are listed (and the numbers in the table do not correspond in any obvious manner to the numbers in the source - looks like student population).  If the use of the ranking is misleading, it should be removed. Tedickey (talk) 12:01, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not implying anything, just stating the Newsweek scores. If you look at the source, there are links to 101+, 201+, 301+...1401+, and also tabs to change the year. The easiest way to check the table if you feel it is inaccurate is to search for the school name. Please remove the tag once you realize it is correct. Thanks, MrKIA11 (talk) 17:16, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

text: And the schools are all of the high schools except TJ, which Newsweek "deemed too elite" for it's list. You should also only see 3 schools in the top 100 of the source (Langley-55, Woodson-74, McLean-99). MrKIA11 (talk) 17:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The full list is top-five-percent (1300 schools from a subset of unspecified extent), not that anyone except for people personally involved will look past the first page.  Back to the point: the table lists 20 schools, doesn't explain the numbers and lacking that explanation, gives the wrong impression.  It's certainly an interpretation of the source. Tedickey (talk) 20:20, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The 20 schools are all the schools... Would adding the word "Rankings" fix the problem? It seems quite self-explanatory to me. MrKIA11 (talk) 20:38, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No - it needs a caption (a few lines of text explaining the numbers) Tedickey (talk) 20:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What else is there to explain besides that those are the rankings that Newsweek gave the schools? MrKIA11 (talk) 20:55, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are many ways to measure "top" schools (placement in colleges, SAT scores, etc).  Newsweek's is less conventional, and has its own biases built-in:  Without explaining the numbers, the reader has to do all of the work Tedickey (talk) 21:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

text: I see. Feel free to add to the article how you see fit. MrKIA11 (talk) 21:37, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ok - I'll think how to summarize Tedickey (talk) 23:02, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: FCPS High Schools on Newsweek's America's Top Public High Schools

message: I am wondering if we should move this whole section to the new FAIRGRADE article, and create a link from the FCPS article to the 'main' FAIRGRADE article. We would still keep the section on the debate, but only having a main article link in that section.
76.111.67.200 (talk) 16:29, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd suggest the opposite.  FAIRGRADE is a group whose only purpose is influencing this particular school system, and not a particularly notable one at that (e.g., hunting for reliable sources that mention it produces almost nothing).  Personally, I don't believe the FAIRGRADE article would survive a notability review at Articles for Deletion. RossPatterson (talk) 17:48, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true, I agree.  76.111.67.200 (talk) 18:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving the 'Debate over grading policy' section to FAIRGRADE article 

message: This section is misleading.
It compares the Fairfax County Public School grading policy to that of "another county" - phraseology which is nebulous at best. The reference only compares against Montgomery County, not Loudoun, or Prince William, or Prince George's... get the picture? I would venture to say that an A in most systems is a 4.0 (I have nothing to back up that statement, except experience from the '60s and my kids' schooling from the '80s and '90s). I know many systems use another scale, and obviously, Montgomery County is one of them; it's not a typical system, so I'd say the comparison was extremely poor. --Tim Sabin (talk) 00:39, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The entire section is contrived, of course.  However, the comment in this topic is based on the given source, and doesn't appear to misrepresent the (skewed) commentary there. Tedickey (talk) 00:54, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It does misrepresent. "Another county" can be just about anything - including Any Other County. My feeling: either specify that this is a comparison against Montgomery County, or delete the entire section. --Tim Sabin (talk) 01:12, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

text: Then provide a reliable source which relates the comment to the topic (personal experience excluded of course) Tedickey (talk) 01:36, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debate over grading policy 

message: Is this the section for which a third opinion is requested?  What exactly is the dispute? Martin Hogbin (talk) 08:16, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: the section was LEFT in. The consensus was to leave it.  But at some point someone removed it.  The section was in there.  It was removed without anyone noticing. Again, the consensus was to leave it in, and it was...until someone did not notice.  Why leave the section about the kids killing themselves then?  That was at a particular school also???  follow me, it's about the policy they allow to be put in place.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.0.1.204 (talk) 00:44, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Third opinion by Martin Hogbin

message: The Epoch Times article "費郡公校廣徵民意 可望實施新版社會學教科書." uses the official Chinese name and another one:
* "費克斯公立學校 "
WhisperToMe (talk) 16:18, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate Chinese name

message: I noticed an error in the article about the new FCPS 10-point grading system. As a student in an FCPS high school, I know that an A- is a part of the grading scale and was not included in the article. Below is from the FCPS website(http://www.fcps.edu/is/news/gradingscale.shtml):
The Fairfax County School Board approved a modified ten-point scale, complete with pluses and minuses. The new scale will be effective at the beginning of the 2009-10 school year. 
New FCPS Grading Scale (effective beginning of 2009-10 school year)
A 	93-100  	= 4.0
A-	90-92   	= 3.7
B+	87-89   	= 3.3
B 	83-86   	= 3.0
B-	80-82   	= 2.7
C+	77-79   	= 2.3
C 	73-76   	= 2.0
C-	70-72   	= 1.7
D+	67-69   	= 1.3
D 	64-66   	= 1.0
F 	below 64	= 0.0
http://www.fcps.edu/is/news/gradingscale.shtml
Supersmarty2014 (talk) 23:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Grading System 

message: I've been adding material to the History section of this article and it's getting very long. I'm thinking about breaking it up into smaller sections, and two ways immediately spring to mind: either breaking it up by decade (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, etc.) or by Superintendent (Funderburk, Davis, Deck, Burkholder, Spillane, etc.). It's also likely that it'll eventually need to be its own article with an inline redirect.--Chuckhoffmann (talk) 12:28, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breaking up History Section 

message: Just so you all know, FCPS is cracking down on vandalism. Vandalism investigations are being made.
Yours,
Johannon (talk) 23:52, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  FCPS is cracking down on vandalism 

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message: Just as a reminder, the history section has become original research by picking and choosing from primary sources.  Knowledgeable secondary sources are preferred versus editor's original composition TEDickey (talk) 18:25, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
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message: I am pretty sure that the Greenspring Retirement community in Springfield was a former elementary school. 
AkilinaL (talk) 12:26, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former Schools 

message: Regarding the Gatehouse Administration Building photograph being wanted in this article; I want to help out this article soon by going to the Gatehouse Administration Building sometime soon and taking a photograph of its exterior to improve this article. As soon as I take it, I'll upload it to Wikimedia Commons and then edit this article to include the image of it.
Sincerely, Baron Maddock (talk) 01:52, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gatehouse Administration Building photograph 

message: Very recently, FCPS has filed a lawsuit against the State of Virginia over the unconstitutionality of the mask mandate ban based on the rules created for how much control the government has over FCPS. This is a pretty important lawsuit for FCPS because, if won, it could inspire other groups. It could very easily set a precedent. While this is technically speculation, I feel it has enough basis to be added based on the inclusion of many other lawsuits of very similar natures and scope concerning COVID-19, especially those involving the controversy of mask/vaccine mandates in other articles. If the lawsuit does nothing and goes nowhere, it can always be removed. Any opinions? General Kipicus (talk) 18:36, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  New mask mandate lawsuit 

message: Why is there nothing mentioning anything about what happened in the school district in the past 5 years. Example: Thomas Jefferson high school being investigated by state government, mask mandates, kindergartener shooting his teacher as that happened in a fcps school  Rabbipika (talk) 16:43, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fcps in the 21st century  

message: Are there any sources for this besides me? The first one was at 12:5x PM EST. JoshuaAuble (talk) (contribs) 00:08, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Student emails everyone