Followed an almost empty FCPS AAP center bus today for miles.

[Anonymous]

I happened to be behind a bus carrying a total of two (2) students to the center school this morning. I was going in the same direction as the bus and saw the beginning of its route all the way to the school. Two students got on; the bus had to drive for miles to pick them up and deliver them to the center. The base school is in Great Falls, an AAP hotbed. The center school has at least five similarly underused buses which drive all over the area just to pick up a handful of kids who already have AAP programs in their base schools. If this is not waste, what is? FCPS, please wake up.

[Anonymous]

My child goes to a special ed center and is the only child on his bus. It picks him up at our house and drives him to the center. He has an aide on the bus. Transporting him to and from school is very expensive. The transportation system exists to serve the educational needs of the students--not for maximum efficiency.

[Anonymous]

Cool story, you will save a few hundred but those said parents are living in multi million dollar homes paying tons of taxes. The major transportation costs are from special needs students , do you want to beat up on them?

[Anonymous]

Cool story, you will save a few hundred but those said parents are living in multi million dollar homes paying tons of taxes. The major transportation costs are from special needs students , do you want to beat up on them?

[Anonymous]

See this all the time, except the regular bus is empty and the AAP bus is full.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool story, you will save a few hundred but those said parents are living in multi million dollar homes paying tons of taxes. The major transportation costs are from special needs students , do you want to beat up on them?

Not talking about special needs students here, in any way. We're talking about AAP students who have an established program already in their base schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I happened to be behind a bus carrying a total of two (2) students to the center school this morning. I was going in the same direction as the bus and saw the beginning of its route all the way to the school. Two students got on; the bus had to drive for miles to pick them up and deliver them to the center. The base school is in Great Falls, an AAP hotbed. The center school has at least five similarly underused buses which drive all over the area just to pick up a handful of kids who already have AAP programs in their base schools. If this is not waste, what is? FCPS, please wake up.

Is this a great county or what?

[Anonymous]

well, hi there creepy stalker lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:See this all the time, except the regular bus is empty and the AAP bus is full.

you must live in the smart neighborhood. In ours, it's about 50-50.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:well, hi there creepy stalker lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:well, hi there creepy stalker lady.

yeah, she just "happened" to be following a school bus and knew it was an AAP bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:well, hi there creepy stalker lady.

yeah, she just "happened" to be following a school bus and knew it was an AAP bus.

yeah, she just happened to be following them "for miles." Not creepy to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:well, hi there creepy stalker lady.

+ 1,000,000!!!

[Anonymous]

I happened to be reading the AAP board this morning, because I have a child entering the program and like to get new information. I read a post from someone who spends her time following buses for miles in order to count students who are in a program with which she has no relationship (and don't say "taxes"--I don't follow special ed buses or see if the FARMS kid eat their free lunches--sometimes you just have to realize not every dollar impacts you directly).

I have to assume this person either is supposed to be working or has *something* better to do around the house, but instead she's policing school buses--again, those allocated for a program in which her family does not take part. If this is not a waste, what is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I happened to be reading the AAP board this morning, because I have a child entering the program and like to get new information. I read a post from someone who spends her time following buses for miles in order to count students who are in a program with which she has no relationship (and don't say "taxes"--I don't follow special ed buses or see if the FARMS kid eat their free lunches--sometimes you just have to realize not every dollar impacts you directly).

I have to assume this person either is supposed to be working or has *something* better to do around the house, but instead she's policing school buses--again, those allocated for a program in which her family does not take part. If this is not a waste, what is?

You would be wrong, on every count. First, I am a man, and a dad, whose child attends LLIV at the base school. No need for this child to be bused somewhere else, as the base school provides AAP - a mediocre program with which I do have a relationship. Second, as I mentioned in a separate thread (one you probably started), I was not able to pass this bus as we were on back roads throughout Great Falls and I was headed in the same direction. I knew it was the AAP bus because it started in our neighborhood and I know the one child who got on there. I wasn't "creepily stalking" anybody, just trying to get to work and stuck behind a bus for much of the way.

So really, you should stop assuming things about posters you know nothing about, in order to further your own agenda. I'm happy to spend my tax dollars on programs which benefit children with special needs. Center school AAP is not one of them.