Fairfax County may close a nature center!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please email [e-mail] and your supervisor if this bothers you.

How can I know if it bothers me? No one has posted which sites are closing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please email [e-mail] and your supervisor if this bothers you.

How can I know if it bothers me? No one has posted which sites are closing.

They will decide that later in the process, but if one gets closed, who is to say others wouldn't follow?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to increase funding for the schools. I'm fine without a nature center if it means we have good schools.

That's a false choice. If they close a nature center, that $ isn't going to be diverted directly over to the schools budget. We need both for good quality of life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to increase funding for the schools. I'm fine without a nature center if it means we have good schools.

That's a false choice. If they close a nature center, that $ isn't going to be diverted directly over to the schools budget. We need both for good quality of life.

but the schools dont have enough money to even hire more teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to increase funding for the schools. I'm fine without a nature center if it means we have good schools.

That's a false choice. If they close a nature center, that $ isn't going to be diverted directly over to the schools budget. We need both for good quality of life.

but the schools dont have enough money to even hire more teachers.

The schools cry poor while spending money on consultants to conduct surveys they plan to ignore (middle school start times, but there have been so many over the past few years) or do external reviews they don't really use for much (AAP in 2020) or the boundary consultant mess. They continually add more "executive principals" like the one in charge of literacy when the state is handing down curricula so why do we need that?

They could make some cuts at Gatehouse without hurting the quality of education and hire more teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please email [e-mail] and your supervisor if this bothers you.

How can I know if it bothers me? No one has posted which sites are closing.

I believe it's between Hidden Pond, Hidden Oaks, and one other. Friends of Hidden Oaks posted it on Facebook and I can't remember exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a few short years, you will no longer care about things like this OP. This time is fleeting. And your very upset considering you don’t even know which location.

Respectfully, I disagree. All the locations are valuable, and I would want them around for grandkids as well. I also want to live in a county that prioritizes these kinds of experiences.

Perhaps you should move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please email [e-mail] and your supervisor if this bothers you.

How can I know if it bothers me? No one has posted which sites are closing.

I believe it's between Hidden Pond, Hidden Oaks, and one other. Friends of Hidden Oaks posted it on Facebook and I can't remember exactly.

I’m guessing they are going to choose based on low attendance and there isn’t much that you can do about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please email [e-mail] and your supervisor if this bothers you.

How can I know if it bothers me? No one has posted which sites are closing.

I believe it's between Hidden Pond, Hidden Oaks, and one other. Friends of Hidden Oaks posted it on Facebook and I can't remember exactly.

I’m guessing they are going to choose based on low attendance and there isn’t much that you can do about it.

What we can do about it email today asking them not to propose closing any of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please email [e-mail] and your supervisor if this bothers you.

How can I know if it bothers me? No one has posted which sites are closing.

I believe it's between Hidden Pond, Hidden Oaks, and one other. Friends of Hidden Oaks posted it on Facebook and I can't remember exactly.

I’m guessing they are going to choose based on low attendance and there isn’t much that you can do about it.

What we can do about it email today asking them not to propose closing any of them.

If they have already decided its unlikely some emails will matter. But have at it.

[Anonymous]

Have you seen teachers salaries?

Just close the center already! Probably empty most of thr time anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen teachers salaries?

Just close the center already! Probably empty most of thr time anyway.

Please tell me what the savings of about $600k would do for the salaries of the THOUSANDS of teachers and instructional personnel in the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS needs to increase funding for the schools. I'm fine without a nature center if it means we have good schools.

That's a false choice. If they close a nature center, that $ isn't going to be diverted directly over to the schools budget. We need both for good quality of life.

but the schools dont have enough money to even hire more teachers.

Fairfax County Public Schools have a budget surplus for the 2nd year in a row. They are scrambling to find pet projects to spend the money on.

[Anonymous]

My guess would be Hidden Pond. My kids love that nature center though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They could make some cuts at Gatehouse without hurting the quality of education and hire more teachers.

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This is SO true.