What will happen to public schools here?

[Anonymous]

With Dept of Education being cut, and potential impacts to federal funding (including Title I funding) for K-12, will school quality go down? Should we move to private now if we can afford it to insulate from the shockwaves? Pretty nervous to start kindergarten next year with this uncertainty. We’re in a “not great school zone” in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Which ES are you zoned for?

[Anonymous]

“Not a great school zone” in Arlington is still far better than many parts of the country.

[Anonymous]

Northern Virginia uses far less federal funds than other places. That's why our taxes are so high. It's the schools in the deep south that are going to suffer horribly. I think we'll be ok.

[Anonymous]

If you have the means to ask this question, your child will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginia uses far less federal funds than other places. That's why our taxes are so high. It's the schools in the deep south that are going to suffer horribly. I think we'll be ok.

Just looked up the school district I grew up in (Louisiana):
Parish Public Schools spends $12,962 per student each year. In that parish, 30% of the funding is federal.
As a marker, Arlington spends nearly $18K per student. 80% of that is county money. The rest is mostly state.

[Anonymous]

Arlington has various lottery options. Try to get into ATS if you can.

[Anonymous]

APS will be fine. Most of its funding comes from county and it has lots of “nice to haves” it can cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginia uses far less federal funds than other places. That's why our taxes are so high. It's the schools in the deep south that are going to suffer horribly. I think we'll be ok.

Just looked up the school district I grew up in (Louisiana):
Parish Public Schools spends $12,962 per student each year. In that parish, 30% of the funding is federal.
As a marker, Arlington spends nearly $18K per student. 80% of that is county money. The rest is mostly state.

FAFO

[Anonymous]

I don't think any of us can predict what's going to happen. Is my school's Girls Who Code program going to have to shutter? The STEM program for groups underrepresented in the field? What else will these vague orders take aim at? I am shocked by what I see the DOD schools doing, and I worry what will be demanded of the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think any of us can predict what's going to happen. Is my school's Girls Who Code program going to have to shutter? The STEM program for groups underrepresented in the field? What else will these vague orders take aim at? I am shocked by what I see the DOD schools doing, and I worry what will be demanded of the rest of us.

Why would it? The DOE doesn’t control APS. Don’t take their money and APS can do what it wants.

[Anonymous]

I guess I worry about my Title I school. Not APS.

[Anonymous]

Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

I have never seen any of this used in my kids classes in APS or in any of the work they've submitted. Their teachers teach the standards mostly using approved curriculum and resources. Nothing has relied on those resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools in Northern Virginia will need to stop pushing the current DEI indoctrination, and other racist nonsense, or risk losing all federal funding.

No more using the false 1619 Project; no more Ibram X. Kendi “textbooks,” etc.

What is objectively false about the 1619 Project? Have you read the book? It's almost 500 page, not counting an almost 100 additional pages of notes (that's sources for you) and its index. There's nothing false about history written through the black perspective. Not all of the contributors are even black. Is it the centering of slavery in American history? Slavery of black people did happen. That's a truth. As a history major, we learned many different perspectives of historical events. We learned different theories. We debated different causes of different events. What was the cause of the revolution? What role did slavery play in it? Was the Civil War about slavery or states rights? That's an actual debate that scholars have. One can disagree with how someone else comes down on that debate, but it's okay to debate (unless, like you, you're into the n#zi side of things). Never, ever did learning someone else's perspective somehow hurt my feelings. Why is your white supremacy so fragile that you cannot allow students to learn all of history?

As to Kendi, what is so bad about being antiracist? What is so bad about self examination and self criticism? If you want your student to only learn about happy white supremacy things, great. You do that. But why are you so scared of the kids who are not so afraid and who want to learn more? Trust me, buddy, they'll also learn about Adolf and your pals.