If you were in charge of FCPS, what budget cuts would you make?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I went to school I never used the counselors, because that's what parents are supposed to do

Maybe if you'd sought their help you'd be able to write a sentence now.

they teach English?

Doing fine with 2 masters and a hhi of 350k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AAP centers need to go. Get back to neighborhood schools.

+1000
Cut AAP centers.

[Anonymous]

Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

[Anonymous]

Cut the Foreign Language in Elem & Middle- I did not start it until HS and I went on to minor in Spanish in college.

Cut sports or pay to play

Cut AAP centers - back to your base school

Expand the walk/bus radius

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I went to school I never used the counselors, because that's what parents are supposed to do

I used the counselor b/c mom and dad were the problem. Counselor was a life-line for me and the only one I could talk to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

I teach at an immersion school and none if the out of boundary students are bussed. Are they at other schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

I teach at an immersion school and none if the out of boundary students are bussed. Are they at other schools?

I know for a fact that there is a bus to Baileys ES that leaves our ES around 8am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

Yes, I think it is more like $200 now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

I teach at an immersion school and none if the out of boundary students are bussed. Are they at other schools?

I know for a fact that there is a bus to Baileys ES that leaves our ES around 8am.

Bailey's is different, it is not an immersion school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

I teach at an immersion school and none if the out of boundary students are bussed. Are they at other schools?

I know for a fact that there is a bus to Baileys ES that leaves our ES around 8am.

Bailey's is different, it is not an immersion school.

Yes it is. Scroll down the list of programs, and you'll see "two-way immersion."

http://commweb.fcps.edu/schoolprofile/profile.cfm?profile_id=103

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

I teach at an immersion school and none if the out of boundary students are bussed. Are they at other schools?

I know for a fact that there is a bus to Baileys ES that leaves our ES around 8am.

Bailey's is different, it is not an immersion school.

Yes it is. Scroll down the list of programs, and you'll see "two-way immersion."

http://commweb.fcps.edu/schoolprofile/profile.cfm?profile_id=103

So why would immersion students get bus rides to Baileys but not other schools? There must be another reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this will be inflammatory -- but the core/essential purpose of schools is the academic part. So, keep PE b/c everybody needs a break and they do learn about health.... but get rid of sports teams. Those are just not part of the core mission... sorry.

If I have to choose between counselors and a football team, I'm choosing counselors who might keep my kid from being bullied or might help someone with anorexia or abuse.

Then I'd reduce the number of instructional assistants -- I was shocked to look on my kids' elementary school website and see about 25 instructional assistants listed. That seems like a whole lot. Maybe we still need a lot of them for the special needs, but if they are not being used for special needs or kindergarten, I think they probably have to go.

Band/strings -- I'd hate to see it go, and I could argue that it is an academic pursuit b/c you can get a degree in music/fine arts. But, it could become a fee-based program.

I'm willing to pay more taxes for all of the above and to avoid any other cuts.

Counselers don't do anything , in fact they sit around waiting in their offices most of the day. Everyone can now afford their own mental health counseling , no need to have that at school.

Sports and extra activities should be self pay to weed out the ones who are serious.

Many of the mental health and development issues should be self pay.

The school needs to prioritize teaching and the classroom. If they eliminated evening else or made it self pay there would be less administrators and executives needed to manage these superfluous activities.

What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

I don't know what that means either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eliminate AAP bussing, magnet and immersion bussing, and TJ bussing. Impose sport fees, band/strings fees, and have families pay their own AP and IB exam fees.

Do high school student parking passes still cost $100 like they did when I was in FCPS? If not, bring back the fee.

I teach at an immersion school and none if the out of boundary students are bussed. Are they at other schools?

I know for a fact that there is a bus to Baileys ES that leaves our ES around 8am.

Bailey's is different, it is not an immersion school.

Yes it is. Scroll down the list of programs, and you'll see "two-way immersion."

http://commweb.fcps.edu/schoolprofile/profile.cfm?profile_id=103

I should have said, Bailey's gets bussing because it is an arts magnet school, not because it is an immersion school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what that means either.

I think it means screw the special ed kids.