How would you cut the budget?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what to cut? let's look at a few expenses items

Division Chief:

2019 - $466,000
2025 - $2,795,000

Gifted Talented Resource

2021: $10,000,000
2025: $16,000,000

why the 50-60% increase? kindergarten teacher spending was up only 10% from 39m to 43m

Library materisls and supplies:

2022: 22,000
2025: 2,077,000

This is the tip of the iceberg!

I think this person has the inside scoop on where cuts are desperately needed.

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Anonymous wrote:Cut all DEI personnel and programs immediately.

So you mean to cut special education?

Did I say that? You're just making stuff up.

DEI includes more than LGBQ

You're right, it's racist too.

So tired of having to educate you morons about DEI. Define it for me so I can understand what you think it is. Hint: It’s not racist. But I ask you: Why do you hate inclusion? Seriously.

And how much does “DEI” cost the schools?

Your a DEI expert using the word "moron." OK, that says a lot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't.
I'd raise taxes.

That's a great idea with so many people losing government jobs and already paying astronomical taxes!

[Anonymous]

HS Teacher.

Get rid of the laptops and go back to the laptop carts for specific uses.
Things have improved quite a bit since phones have been banned but your kids still indulge their screen addiction using the laptops and we have a long way to go.
Attendance would improve due to FOMO without Schoology. Student engagement and achievement would improve.

[Anonymous]

There were a ton of empty positions in 2021, I don't think they went on an assistant principal hiring spree the past four years....

[Anonymous]

There are more APs being hired because, in addition to being places of education, schools are being asked to provide a full continuum of social welfare services to students and families. Mental health, crisis response, discipline, testing now command far more administrative time than testing.

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Anonymous wrote:Eliminate transportation to AAP centers.

+1 million (and I'd add, cut AAP centers. Local Level IV at every school.)

+100 million

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Anonymous wrote:Cut all DEI personnel and programs immediately.

So kids with dyslexia aren’t important and don’t deserve help?

Is it the same dope who keeps making these non sequiturs??

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Anonymous wrote:Cut all DEI personnel and programs immediately.

So you mean to cut special education?

Did I say that? You're just making stuff up.

DEI includes more than LGBQ

Please explain how it includes dyslexia.

Do you know what the D in DEI is?

OMG. This has to be a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:Cut:
the entire AP program, including TJ
all instructional coaches and generic resource teachers
half the Assistant Principals
all the dual language programs
and at least half of Gatehouse bureaucrats.

I'm not sure if I wold cut APs. Good ones make a huge difference in a school. They are the ones that deal with discipline issues for the most part. I've been lucky as a teacher and had very supportive admin and have often wished for an extra AP or two at the schools I've worked in.

The AP I had to work with regarding a discipline issue was useless. She didn't want to call the parents of a disruptive student because she didn't want the student to "get in trouble." Very helpful, that one.
DP

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BRAC is the closest thing to DOGE that FCPS has ever undertaken. The “one off” boundary changes are expensive and incredibly inefficient, costing up to several hundred thousand dollars each, which is large part of the reason why they aren’t common. One BRAC analysis for 2x to 4x cost that covers every school in FCPS? That is incredibly, incredibly efficient by comparison.

No. It is not anywhere comparable to DOGE except for major disruption.

The purpose of DOGE is to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. Whether it does that is certainly up for discussion.

However, this BRAC is:
BRAC committee is anything but transparent--NDA's for committee members; questionable selection processes for the committee.

Waste: Spending $$$ to a contractor --why? So, FCPS can pass the buck on decision making and pretend that an unprejudiced third part is making the decisions. (Meanwhile, the committee selected is anything but unprejudiced.)
While there certainly are boundaries that need to be adjusted, it would appear they are not the ones much discussed on this thread.
A PP said this would be money savings. Does he/she really believe that this is only 2 to 4 times the cost of an individual school boundary study?
Why spend money on a study that is not needed? It seems to me that with all the construction going on around Coates that this could have been easily adjusted two years ago.

$$ for double busing.
Do you think it is not going to cost money to switch staffs? Haven't heard a word about how these changes are going to affect that.

Fraud: Maybe, maybe not. Why was there a non-compete award? Is the contract limited to $500K? Highly unlikely
Have there been change orders?

Abuse: Putting the entire school community into uncertainty. It may not be a right to be sent to a certain school, but when a switch is made, it disturbs neighborhoods and communities. Anyone who says differently has not been through a boundary change.

Not addressing the AP/IB issue when discussing this. That is a major concern of many parents of high school students.

One of the SB members said that they would not eliminate AAP centers because of the AAP so activism. Fine, but why does one group have so much influence, when the community as a whole has made it clear they do not want this fiasco of a study? Overwhelmingly, people want to stay at their current schools.

From the CIP, there do not appear to be any high schools that are too small. There are a couple that are full, but it appears that is a temporary situation.

Fairfax County residents are undergoing a major employment upheaval right now. Adding this to it is abusive.

DP. The fact that AAP has a loud advocacy group is sickening. Where's the advocacy group for the Gen Ed kids? Talk about INEQUITY...

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Anonymous wrote:Cut all DEI personnel and programs immediately.

So you mean to cut special education?

Did I say that? You're just making stuff up.

DEI includes more than LGBQ

You're right, it's racist too.

So tired of having to educate you morons about DEI. Define it for me so I can understand what you think it is. Hint: It’s not racist. But I ask you: Why do you hate inclusion? Seriously.

And how much does “DEI” cost the schools?

We have laws that cover the issues that matter. We do not need a special staff. We do have diversity--we don't need anyone teaching us about who is privileged and who is now.
What is the best thing for the minority groups? Education. Period. What is the best thing for majority groups? Education.

We do not need "Pride Days" or "Transgender visibility" days. We just need for kids to treat each other with respect. And, you do not need a special staff for that.

ALL OF THIS!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would cut Karl Frisch's salary to $5 because that's about the value he adds as School Board chair.

And then, maybe, if he were gone, they'd come to their senses and realize they shouldn't be wasting over $85 million on Dunn Loring ES, which would be an even bigger cost savings for FCPS that could be put to better use.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:Cut all DEI personnel and programs immediately.

So you mean to cut special education?

Did I say that? You're just making stuff up.

DEI includes more than LGBQ

You're right, it's racist too.

So tired of having to educate you morons about DEI. Define it for me so I can understand what you think it is. Hint: It’s not racist. But I ask you: Why do you hate inclusion? Seriously.

And how much does “DEI” cost the schools?

We have laws that cover the issues that matter. We do not need a special staff. We do have diversity--we don't need anyone teaching us about who is privileged and who is now.
What is the best thing for the minority groups? Education. Period. What is the best thing for majority groups? Education.

We do not need "Pride Days" or "Transgender visibility" days. We just need for kids to treat each other with respect. And, you do not need a special staff for that.

And you think that people treat others with respect automatically?

DP. Children can still be taught to include one another and treat *everyone* with respect. We don't need to single out special affinity groups in order to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HS Teacher.

Get rid of the laptops and go back to the laptop carts for specific uses.
Things have improved quite a bit since phones have been banned but your kids still indulge their screen addiction using the laptops and we have a long way to go.
Attendance would improve due to FOMO without Schoology. Student engagement and achievement would improve.

+1