Swim class in VA schools

[Anonymous]

Learning to swim is extremely important. It's also a healthy activity. What a strange thing to complain about!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

And how are these things related in any way?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

And how are these things related in any way?

You really don't get this? If we cut $ in one area (aquatics) it can be used for other things (library assistants, lowering class sizes).

Money is money. There is only so much of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learning to swim is extremely important. It's also a healthy activity. What a strange thing to complain about!

My school system growing up didn't teach elementary school kids how to swim. It doesn't seem like a core function of a school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learning to swim is extremely important. It's also a healthy activity. What a strange thing to complain about!

The APA aquatics program doesn't teach kids how to swim. Did you think it did?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

This is why I could not be a School Board or County Board member. People are idiots and they have to treat them like they are not idiots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Learning to swim is extremely important. It's also a healthy activity. What a strange thing to complain about!

My school system growing up didn't teach elementary school kids how to swim. It doesn't seem like a core function of a school system.

Neither is letting kids drown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

Wrong there are definitely employees that administer the in school aquatics programs.
Also for the rest- Do the fees completely offset the expense?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

Wrong there are definitely employees that administer the in school aquatics programs.
Also for the rest- Do the fees completely offset the expense?

You think that’s what costs 2.95 million dollars?

Do some research on the fees. It’s all publicly available information. My guess is probably the fees don’t completely offset the expense but who knows. I’m not wasting my time looking it up this is a stupid path to even pursue. This community is not going to stop running public pools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

Wrong there are definitely employees that administer the in school aquatics programs.
Also for the rest- Do the fees completely offset the expense?

You think that’s what costs 2.95 million dollars?

Do some research on the fees. It’s all publicly available information. My guess is probably the fees don’t completely offset the expense but who knows. I’m not wasting my time looking it up this is a stupid path to even pursue. This community is not going to stop running public pools.

You're the one who claimed the fees offset the 3 million. I would be shocked if that's the case. And now that I call you out on it, your answer is... do some research. LOL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

Wrong there are definitely employees that administer the in school aquatics programs.
Also for the rest- Do the fees completely offset the expense?

You think that’s what costs 2.95 million dollars?

Do some research on the fees. It’s all publicly available information. My guess is probably the fees don’t completely offset the expense but who knows. I’m not wasting my time looking it up this is a stupid path to even pursue. This community is not going to stop running public pools.

I guess we disagree. I don't think the school system should be spending 3 mil to administer swimming/pools for the entire community's benefit. Why can't the county do that instead?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

Wrong there are definitely employees that administer the in school aquatics programs.
Also for the rest- Do the fees completely offset the expense?

You think that’s what costs 2.95 million dollars?

Do some research on the fees. It’s all publicly available information. My guess is probably the fees don’t completely offset the expense but who knows. I’m not wasting my time looking it up this is a stupid path to even pursue. This community is not going to stop running public pools.

No I think that part of the 3 million is for the in school part, and part is for the community part. I don't think any of that is a good use of 3 million. You really can't think of better ways for APS to spend that money? I sure can. Lower class sizes for one. Save library assistants for another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Learning to swim is extremely important. It's also a healthy activity. What a strange thing to complain about!

I think the complaint is that the budget is now cutting things that impact core education. Swim is just a nice to have and is limited at best, as no kid is learning to swim in these sessions. It's a lot of disruption for little benefit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:APS spends 2.95 million on aquatics. Almost three million! That's a huge amount of money that we could spend on other things, like lowering class sizes and keeping library assistants.

It is both fascinating and terrifying how people have no idea what in the actual hell they are talking about.

APS has 3 public pools embedded in their high schools. They manage these pools for the public and they are heavily used by the entire community. That's what this budget is for. There are also some fees charged to use the pools which offsets the expense, which you have conveniently left out. Just like all the school nurses embedded in your school are actually paid for by the County public health department. Lots of examples of sharing of costs between the two entities on behalf of the community.

Cutting your kid getting bused to the pool for a couple days is not some big cost savings. How would you even logically think this?

Wrong there are definitely employees that administer the in school aquatics programs.
Also for the rest- Do the fees completely offset the expense?

You think that’s what costs 2.95 million dollars?

Do some research on the fees. It’s all publicly available information. My guess is probably the fees don’t completely offset the expense but who knows. I’m not wasting my time looking it up this is a stupid path to even pursue. This community is not going to stop running public pools.

I guess we disagree. I don't think the school system should be spending 3 mil to administer swimming/pools for the entire community's benefit. Why can't the county do that instead?

Sure then APS can pay for their own school nurses and to maintain their own synthetic fields. Then everything will be squared away.