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I agree about the busses. For one thing, if you choose to send your child to Thomas Jefferson, you should be responsible for getting your child to and from. There is no reason to dedicate busses all over the county to transport kids to that school. It's incredibly inefficient. |
Nothing can ever be cut from the school budget. Absolutely nothing. How can our kids learn if they don't have a... COVID memorial. Yep, definitely need that. |
These aren’t programs offered by FCPS though, is that correct? They are county programs based on PPs. |
+1000. |
+1 |
I agree with you. We send our three children to private school partly because I hate when public keeps cutting things arbitrarily. |
Wouldn’t even make a dent if cut this because is sweeper buses that do this. Biggest cost cut would be to cut your ES for AAP, which may happen if stop centers with new boundaries. But as is, won’t cut either bc that is how getting experience admits to the schools. Would only hurt those with financial need, etc if did now. |
https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/budget/sites/budget/files/Assets/Documents/fy2026/advertised/overview/Reduction%20Package.pdf |
Would you mind sharing why it was so terrible? Just curious. |
Why? Most I know credit being on own to being able to grow up. Any studies on latch keyers and where and how they ended up in life? How many ended up self-sufficient with jobs v. no job living with parents? |
FCPS should cut the availability of the summer credit recovery program to the minimum required for a specific student to meet their graduation requirements by the end of 12th grade. Right now we have too many students who don't study at all during the year and prefer to take it over the summer because "it's so easy" (direct student quote, and it is) or because they want to move on to the next level for bragging rights to their friends or for the worthless "advanced diploma" sticker.
These kids keep failing up and are less and less prepared as they move up. They should just retake the class the following year unless it's going to prevent them from graduating on time. |
+1. It's long past time to tweak the LCI. We should not be sending 70% of our tax dollars downstate and getting pennies in return. |
Wr wouldn’t have to make so many cuts if Youngkin didn’t cut the budget. |
I think part of the issue is that FCPS asked for more funds because of the promise to increase teacher salaries to recruit and retain good teachers. I wonder if they considered scaling the after school clubs to 3 days per week. |