WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts

[Anonymous]

my kid is bussed to a center. Eliminate AAP and he/she gets bussed to the local school. So what's the difference?

Your kid is AAP, and you can't figure out that it means additional buses? Buses are already in your neighborhood for neighborhood school and there is probably already room on the bus for your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor works in the office of an FCPS elementary and they have inadvertently discovered 3 out-of-county students attending school this year already. (They weren't looking or checking.)

I think FCPS needs to shift some useless Gatehouse admins over to investigating and removing kids who don't live in Fairfax.

I would rather pay more in property tax than have student-teacher ratio increased.

Our elected reps in Richmond need to do more to keep FCPS from getting screwed by the rest of Virginia in the funding formulas.

How? The current school funding formulas benefit a super majority of the state and screw a minority. What local politician will change a formula that benefits his/her constituency? Same for transportation and everything else for that matter. The only benefit we get more of is that our children go to the state schools at a higher rate than ROVA.

I have lived in NOVA for 20_+ years. I have been represented by Rs and Ds when they were in the majority and the minority - every possible option. Nothing changes and it won't if more people benefit from the current system than don't.

[Anonymous]

Not only that, but, in most cases, the AAP school is a further distance away=more mileage+ more bus drivers+more buses......

[Anonymous]

FCPS also buses to magnet schools. Check out Baileys' bus routes...........has to cost a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

my kid is bussed to a center. Eliminate AAP and he/she gets bussed to the local school. So what's the difference?

Your kid is AAP, and you can't figure out that it means additional buses? Buses are already in your neighborhood for neighborhood school and there is probably already room on the bus for your kid.

Our busses are full, we would have to add more busses if the AAP kids returned.

[Anonymous]

Closing AAP centers would not need to result in lay-offs. Attrition could handle it, I am pretty sure. It would be much easier for principals to allot teachers if they did not have to deal with AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not only that, but, in most cases, the AAP school is a further distance away=more mileage+ more bus drivers+more buses......

PPs are not saying the cost would be nil, just that it wouldn't be significant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Closing AAP centers would not need to result in lay-offs. Attrition could handle it, I am pretty sure. It would be much easier for principals to allot teachers if they did not have to deal with AAP.

Why would there be fewer teachers? The students would still be in the school system and need to be taught.

[Anonymous]

What do you consider significant? If you think it is only $600,000, you are sadly mistaken. Even if it were that three years ago, the number of AAP students has mushro0omed, and gas prices are pretty high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

my kid is bussed to a center. Eliminate AAP and he/she gets bussed to the local school. So what's the difference?

Your kid is AAP, and you can't figure out that it means additional buses? Buses are already in your neighborhood for neighborhood school and there is probably already room on the bus for your kid.

Our busses are full, we would have to add more busses if the AAP kids returned.

Still think it would be a reduction in bus costs if AAP kids were at base school. My kid could walk to our elementary but had to be bussed to a center. Sorry. I know folks will defend this program till their dying day, but in many areas, these needs could be served more than adequately at their base school if parents weren't so reluctant to let go of the idea that their precious can't be rubbing elbows with all the kids in his/her community (which is kinda how life is when you think of it).

[Anonymous]

Health benefits have gone up and that means school bus drivers cost more than they did three years ago. Check out the transportation costs for FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Still think it would be a reduction in bus costs if AAP kids were at base school. My kid could walk to our elementary but had to be bussed to a center. Sorry. I know folks will defend this program till their dying day, but in many areas, these needs could be served more than adequately at their base school if parents weren't so reluctant to let go of the idea that their precious can't be rubbing elbows with all the kids in his/her community (which is kinda how life is when you think of it).

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

my kid is bussed to a center. Eliminate AAP and he/she gets bussed to the local school. So what's the difference?

Your kid is AAP, and you can't figure out that it means additional buses? Buses are already in your neighborhood for neighborhood school and there is probably already room on the bus for your kid.

probably probably - sound like a huge cost savings . The only way to answer this is to know how many additional busses are needed because of the existence of Centers? Those centers have neighborhood kids who get bussed there as well. really, there are 184,000 students and they all have to get bussed somewhere. I seriously doubt AAP adds more than a neglibible cost.

[Anonymous]

Our busses are full, we would have to add more busses if the AAP kids returned

And, how full are your AAP buses? Not so much, I imagine.

[Anonymous]

maybe they will get rid of 1/2 day Mondays!