Reid shut down alternative programs...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don’t know much about Mountain View except that my kid has a friend that graduated from there. We didn’t know him when he went there but they met later at Nova. He told us he had issues when he was younger, got in some trouble and refused to go to school when he was in HS so he was sent there and they got him through school.

We know him now as a young man with a long term job and attending community college. I’m glad that program existed and he was able to get support to get a HS diploma. It’s too bad it’s shut down and won’t help others.

I know of a girl some years ago who was having problems--I don't think it was disruption of others or anything like that. She was sent there and thrived.

[Anonymous]

It seems like the people running FCPS have lost their sense of what counts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don’t know much about Mountain View except that my kid has a friend that graduated from there. We didn’t know him when he went there but they met later at Nova. He told us he had issues when he was younger, got in some trouble and refused to go to school when he was in HS so he was sent there and they got him through school.

We know him now as a young man with a long term job and attending community college. I’m glad that program existed and he was able to get support to get a HS diploma. It’s too bad it’s shut down and won’t help others.

But this is why this thread is useless. Mountain View is not being shut down. It appears that one program at Mountain View may be getting folded into other existing programs there and that there will be some de-staffing.

The alternatives programs at the alternative schools are all small. It seems likely that the per student costs are multiples of what FCPS spends on kids at their base schools. OP wants us to be angry that some positions are being eliminated, but has yet to provide a clear explanation as to the reason why the particular programs (whether it's AIM or ALC) are being eliminated and where those kids might go instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems like the people running FCPS have lost their sense of what counts.

People try to get others interested in wasteful expenditures like Karl Frisch's $86 million boondoggle at Dunn Loring. It's a complete waste of money, and people in the county (and most of the School Board members) mostly shrug about it.

And, then, when something else they like gets cut, they are surprised and outraged.