Will FCPS ever Reopem?

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01/08/2018 19:34

Subject: Re:Will FCPS ever Reopem?

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Anonymous wrote:This is the problem with having a huge, County-wide school system. East of 95 and along 95 we’re getting nothing but a light rain. It’s 35 degrees out. I believe that people way out west and north experienced sleet/freezing rain, but in Springfield we got nothing. The students in this section of the county also tend to be lower SES and I’m sure they could have really benefited from having school today in so many ways.

I also think this is a huge part of the problem. This is the first state we have been in that it has been like this (military). In each of the other states, schools were set up by smaller districts (Pennsylvania and Georgia)

I grew up in Ohio and generally each city had its own school district as well. There were County-wide districts, but they were smaller and more rural. If we could split FCPS for purposes of closings so West Potomac and Hayfield could stay open while Langley and McLean close, that would be ideal.

I keep saying fcps needs to be divided by cluster (or whatever buzz word they use to describe each groups of high schools).

We already have a separate superintendent for each cluster. What are we paying them for if everything is.so uniform? The county is very diverse: student needs, interests, weather, etc.

We need to actually make cluster superintendents start working and figure out how to fix this recurring issue.

There was no justification for shutting down the entire county today.

Big programs like special ed could be managed county wide, along with any magnet programs. Everything else should be done by geographic clusters of 2-3 high schools and their respective feeders. AAP centers should be by clusters. Boundary patterns of elementary and middle schools should be done by cluster. The only programs that should result in crossover between clusters are high school academy classes, magnet schools like TJ or language immersion, and centers for the extreme special needs kids like Key Center.

Please stop. Every damn snow day this tired argument comes out. So many brilliant organizational superstars here. What $2.8BILLION organization are you running? Tell us where you got your degree in public administration. Can you even begin to comprehend how wasteful that would be with our tax dollars because so many services would have to be duplicated. There's an entire infrastructure of maintenance and food services and accounting and human resources that you don't acknowledge.

We get it--you're pissed off that you've missed several days of work. If you think that breaking apart the 10th largest school system and reorganizing it into 5 individual school systems is worthy idea, I would invite you to speak with your official on the Board of Supervisors. Tell them your plan. Tell them how all the headaches and wasted money will be worth it for those random snow days when one superintendent calls school closed and the other calls school open.