Talk:Fairfax County Public Schools

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[edit] Vandalism

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)

Yeah. I seem to be aware of this problem. I am a student at FCPS. I am interested in joining Wikipedia, so I started reading the wikipedia information. I noticed a new message box in the vandalism page, and it says FCPS has been banned from editing. This is apparently the third ban for the school. 72.83.118.187 21:19, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Banned again. 151.188.16.17 11:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Yup. These schools seem to be full of people who would like to vandalize this place. That's one of the reasons I got an account. Jesin 13:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand why WPedia let's just anybody edit and change things that other people put on. What sense does that make when someone bent on mischief can distort, change, or otherwise misrepresent,twist, etc the hard work of others

[edit] Removed Content

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

[edit] Removed the bit about the grading scale being "the most strenuous in the country"

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)


Actually, it IS slightly tougher than most... maybe not the MOST strenuous but not standard... --69.255.2.100 21:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fairfax County elementary schools

Per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clifton Elementary School (Clifton, Virginia), a new article Fairfax County elementary schools has been created and all FCPS elementary school articles should be merged there. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-17 21:07Z

[edit] School Demographics

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)