FCPS Level IV Task Force Recommendation
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Anonymous
Based on what Jack Dale said in the work session, it sounds like FCPS is reaching out to "stakeholders" now in the development of an implementation timeline, all to be ready for a December work session. |
Anonymous
| So who are the stakeholders then? Not parents? |
Anonymous
I read this part of the document as students that start after the beginning of the school year would be assigned to a different center without transportation, which would likely only affect a small number of students during the school year. |
Anonymous
Principals, teachers, etc. And the community. |
Anonymous
I so agree with you. I have one child at LA and my child loves it, but younger child will not have an opportunity to go there. so unfair. and yes, my husband and I both work full time therefore our taxes pay for these teachers salaries. I read this proposal as discrimination towards families with both parents work full time. What can I do to stop this? Is there a way to stop this? |
Anonymous
| If you work full time, doesn't your child use SACC? I'm trying to understand why AAP busing can't be similar to TJ where you get picked up at a local school or SACC center instead of at your home or bus stop. We are in the walking district to our base school, so since we don't get bused to our base school I don't feel it is discrimination. We just use SACC. I feel Louise Archer actually is discriminating against working parents by not having a SACC center. |
Anonymous
Contact your Fairfax County School Board member as well as the three At-Large members. Several School Board members said they had heard from parents prior to the work session. If you have thoughts about the proposal, get in touch with them and let them know your thoughts. It sounds to me as if they will have a work session in December (if not earlier) about this Task Force's recommendations. Find your School Board members and their contact information: http://www.fcps.edu/schlbd/members/bdmembers.shtml or email the entire School Board: SchoolBoardMembers@fcps.edu |
Anonymous
If it's such a small number, surely they could fit them into the regularly assigned centers. What happens to those kids going forward? For example, if your child starts in mid-third grade this year and your school is currently assigned to Haycock, are you stuck sending them to Churchill Road with no transport all the way through 6th grade? Presumably the other kiss at Haycock will be grandfathered in so the new cluster AAP centers won't have a 4th grade class. It seems they should have put up with a couple extra students in the existing centers this year and made the change for incoming 2ed grade next year going forward. They made a hasty decision to mollify the vocal parents and it wasn't well though out. |
Anonymous
Have you tried to get into SACC? There aren't enough spaces so some use other child care options that may or may not include a driver. There is also the bell schedule issue if you have children at another school. I have kids at 2 schools with the same bell schedule. I can't be in 2 places at once so we must use the bus. If I had to take one to school and pick him up, the younger child would be without supervision waiting for the bus. Now, they can both wait at the bus stop for different busses. |
Anonymous
| Our base school does not have a waitlist for SACC in the morning but has a large waitlist in the afternoon. I am not sure whether others have a long waitlist in the morning or not. I think that any school that starts before or around 8:30 would not, but if they started after 9:00 they would. Centers tend to run later bell schedules than base schools. Louise Archer starts at 9:15 whereas most of the schools that feed into it start at 8:40-8:50. I'm guessing this is so buses can get from SACC at base schools to the centers. So even now are those children picked up at the same time by the bus? Our base school allows children into the cafeteria 15 minutes early so I'm still not understanding why children can't just ride the bus from the base school to the center instead of from a bus stop or just arrive at the center school for early morning SACC. I do think that all the busing to centers should be the same for all schools. |
Anonymous
| Our center and base schools have the exact same bell schedule (starting at 9:15) so that would n't work for us. However, I'd be thrilled if they changed. The bell schedule at one school (or both). I hate the late schedule! |
Anonymous
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Has the county ever considered having an entire school be AAP 3-6 only?
It would make so much more sense to have one school in each cluster that houses only AAP kids, and it would eliminate the crowding and top-heavy issues in AAP center schools. |
Anonymous
Interesting idea! I wonder if FCPS has enough schools to dedicate to such an approach and how that would affect personnel and transportation costs. |
Anonymous
This is an interesting idea, but my guess is that families living in the area surrounding the AAP only school would be unhappy at losing their neighborhood school. Residents of the area surrounding TJ still regret losing their school, so I think the same is likely to follow if an elementary were changed to all AAP. |
Anonymous
Good point. Maybe find some FCPS administrative buildings that used to be schools instead? It would require renovation, of course -- along the lines of the new Mason Crest ES that used to be the Lacey Center. |