Eliminating AAP Centers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, $200000 to 400K? That's a pretty big span which indicates to me that it is not accurate.

Looking at the budget docs from several years ago, the ambiguity is that it costs 400K to buss the kids to the AAP center. But the county would have to spend 200K to bus the AAP kids to there base schools.

[Anonymous]

But the county would have to spend 200K to bus the AAP kids to there base schools.

Did the county say that or you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can just imagine the drama if they move everything back to the base school. Accusations of tracking, favoritism. Parents having fits that their kid is not getting the same enrichment as someone else's kid who they deam not worthy.

Instead of the drama being a once a year event at only a small number of schools, it will be a constant headache at every single school.

No thanks.

GT magnets for the truly "gifted" would solve that problem. They could require parents to provide their own transportation like the immersion and other magnets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As the previous poster pointed out, they ALL end up together in high school.

I agree. Everyone ends up with a high school diploma anyway, so we should just have a single program. Eliminate all the options and just do one well. Too much superfluous fluff.

Use the example of zero-based budgeting. What are the requirements for a high school diploma? Then work backwards to deliver those items well.

We do not need band, strings, chorus, arts programs.

We simply need math, science, English, and history.

All foreign/world language instruction can be done online. Eliminate all immersion, FLES, FLEX.

Make sure the personal finance course requirement is met.

That's it.

Hopefully this is sarcasm...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can just imagine the drama if they move everything back to the base school. Accusations of tracking, favoritism. Parents having fits that their kid is not getting the same enrichment as someone else's kid who they deam not worthy.

Instead of the drama being a once a year event at only a small number of schools, it will be a constant headache at every single school.

No thanks.

GT magnets for the truly "gifted" would solve that problem. They could require parents to provide their own transportation like the immersion and other magnets.

YES.