WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts

[Anonymous]

I suggest reading http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cms/lib07/UT01001306/Centricity/Domain/73/Learning%20Distinctions%20Between%20High%20Achievers%20and%20Gifted.pdf particular page 11. High achievers, often those in honors classes, are very different from gifted students in learning styles and needs. A good school district will have separate programs for each. The pacing, depth, discussions, and atmosphere of these two classes should be different.

Why do gifted students sometimes seem average in middle and high school? In elementary school, they become used to putting in little to no work for top grades. When school becomes more difficult, they have no study skills, are unused to overcoming failure, and don't know how to work hard. High achievers, on the other hand, learned these skills and often excel more in the later grades and after college.

[Anonymous]

Baloney. The students from the GT program who are supposed to be challenged do not necessarily excel in high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would assume most cuts would be to non-essential programs like AAP?

How much more does AAP cost? The students are still there and they still need to have teachers. They still take art, music, PE....... They still have access to the library.... The additional bussing cost is where the savings would be and that is a drop in the bucket. (No dog in the AAP fight.)

this suggestion was just a person trying to be funny -- the only additional cost is bus service to the centers. Putting all the students back at their base schools would save little or nothing.

They don't pay those teachers more? There's no additional layer of cost for curriculum?

I genuinely don't know, I'm just asking. But I bet it's more complicated than just busing.

I'd chop AAP before FLES.

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Just goes to show you that neither one of you know what you are talking about! Why would you cut AAP before FLES???? Have you been in these classrooms, why are we teaching a foreign language to students who can't read or comprehend English? Yes, cut FLES!!!

Sorry your peanut didn't get into AAP like you wanted but the program is good and a lot of people moved to this area due to the AAP program! I didn't move to this area so that my children can learn Mandarin!

[Anonymous]

Hmmm and the hispanic esol farm population reached an all time enrollment high in Fairfax county, no coincidence?

[Anonymous]

Cut both. Neither are value for dollars spent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cut both. Neither are value for dollars spent.

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Anonymous wrote:Cut both. Neither are value for dollars spent.

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And cut the sports, music, and arts stuff as well. Stick with the basics only.

[Anonymous]

Possibly cut back on music and arts. Don't eliminate them. PE is a requirement.