Waste – FCPS School Facilities

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Anonymous wrote:Population here continues to grow. They will need that space eventually.

And as people continue to avoid Lewis we just expand West Springfield to 3000 like West Potomac?

Existing capacity should be used first. Growth may never materialize so we should not be expanding until it is clear the students will be there. We have available space in many areas.

Why has Bucknell been operating at 37-40 percent capacity for multiple years?

This is malfeasance.

It's cheaper to assume growth when you are doing a renovation. Comb through the budgets, projections etc. and this is fairly consistent. FCPS has external auditors assess its plans. Calling it malfeasance is ridiculous.

I simply disagree. Karen Corbett Sanders wanted nothing to do with moving students to Mount Vernon. Despite all the room available for years into the future. Bucknell is also in the West Potomac pyramid. What is going on over there? Why don't the other School Board members call her out? Because they also don't want to move students.

Board wide failure.

Most of the major shenanigans are in the Lee [Mackay now Chairman so it has 2 reps on Board of Supervisors and 1 on school board] and Mount Vernon District [ 1 BOS, 1 SB]. Whitman [Mount Vernon pyramid] is in the Sandburg [West Potomac pyramid] attendance area and would be walkers for Whitman are bussed.

The 3 at large representatives on the school board have not done their duties for years and neither has who ever is the chairman of the Board of Supervisors and other district reps on both boards. BOS has to vote on bonds. Mackay called the open capacity at Mount Vernon the elephant in the room. Saudis used to rent the old Mount Vernon HS - now morphing into a community center and none of it's functions will generate a special tax district. Penny Gross [D-Mason District] brought up that fact. Some how the site that should have been the future western HS by Carson MS is now the Saudis.

The point is 2 districts are not operating like the others. Fort Belvoir is in the Mount Vernon District. No way should military connected students have IB at their base schools.

That scope of that Langley addition was foolish. Tholen inherited messes- problems from immersion [overfunded, class sizes, capacity etc].

Those students mostly go to Lake Braddock, West Springfield, and Hayfield. Parents are told to call schools for placement and the requests are always granted. The recurring theme of Mt Vernon is that no one who doesn't want to attend the school has to. In bound students go to Hayfield and West Po and say it's because of AP. Belvoir kids allowed to go anywhere. Kids zoned for better school are never rezoned there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Population here continues to grow. They will need that space eventually.

And as people continue to avoid Lewis we just expand West Springfield to 3000 like West Potomac?

Existing capacity should be used first. Growth may never materialize so we should not be expanding until it is clear the students will be there. We have available space in many areas.

Why has Bucknell been operating at 37-40 percent capacity for multiple years?

This is malfeasance.

It's cheaper to assume growth when you are doing a renovation. Comb through the budgets, projections etc. and this is fairly consistent. FCPS has external auditors assess its plans. Calling it malfeasance is ridiculous.

I simply disagree. Karen Corbett Sanders wanted nothing to do with moving students to Mount Vernon. Despite all the room available for years into the future. Bucknell is also in the West Potomac pyramid. What is going on over there? Why don't the other School Board members call her out? Because they also don't want to move students.

Board wide failure.

Most of the major shenanigans are in the Lee [Mackay now Chairman so it has 2 reps on Board of Supervisors and 1 on school board] and Mount Vernon District [ 1 BOS, 1 SB]. Whitman [Mount Vernon pyramid] is in the Sandburg [West Potomac pyramid] attendance area and would be walkers for Whitman are bussed.

The 3 at large representatives on the school board have not done their duties for years and neither has who ever is the chairman of the Board of Supervisors and other district reps on both boards. BOS has to vote on bonds. Mackay called the open capacity at Mount Vernon the elephant in the room. Saudis used to rent the old Mount Vernon HS - now morphing into a community center and none of it's functions will generate a special tax district. Penny Gross [D-Mason District] brought up that fact. Some how the site that should have been the future western HS by Carson MS is now the Saudis.

The point is 2 districts are not operating like the others. Fort Belvoir is in the Mount Vernon District. No way should military connected students have IB at their base schools.

That scope of that Langley addition was foolish. Tholen inherited messes- problems from immersion [overfunded, class sizes, capacity etc].

Her response has been anemic. She's done little for McLean and even with regards to her own pyramid hasn't made sure the scale of the Cooper renovation will be aligned with the scope of Langley's addition. She is spineless and just let Jeff Platenburg do anything he wanted.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't think it is sound fiscal policy to build additional capacity on the basis that it may be needed some day in the distant future. Especially when there is existing capacity to handle the growth.

Or to build additional capacity in a school to handle overcrowding and then immediately move students out (to the point there is a large surplus of space). This was the case with Lewis and Springfield Estates.

Nor is it okay to mislead on the size of expansions.

But hey, it is just taxpayer's money.

This is all common sense, but clearly there are some beneficiaries of FCPS’s incompetent, discriminatory approach to planning who are prepared to support the blatant waste and harm to others as long as they personally made out OK.

External, independent auditors who assess building plans for school systems across the country disagree with you. Fairfax's buildings and operations plans consistently receive high marks. Fairfax doesn't get to just decide these things on their own you know? There's a whole regulatory process which includes eliminating waste. External auditors consistently recommend adding additional capacity at low cost during needed renovations because it tends on average to be worth it.

That's sensible. So now, when external, independent auditors tell FCPS that issues of equity and high disparity in outcomes based on pyramid need to be addressed, our FCPS families shouldn't be vehemently against such actions. E.g. the final recommendations of the boundary review consultants from last December were met with opposition since it was made clear that boundaries right now strongly favor high-SES families.

Boundary consultants specifically said rezoning by socioeconomics isn’t equity and won’t work.

Some members of the board were very disappointed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

The thing is, focusing on the high schools is starting at the wrong end.

If they want the lower performing high schools to be more desirable then fcps needs to heavily invest at the elementary level upwards to middle school in literacy (not the whole language nonsense they have been using the past decade or so), rigorous math (not lowering standards in the name of equity), English language proficiency, and rigorous science classes with lots of TJ track style enrichment in the after school programs.

Work up, not down. Play the long game instead of pushing a band aid fix like rezoning that is just designed to make you feel riotous and benevolent, but will surely fail.

You aren't going to get a rigorous, in demand high school program at a high school where half the kids cannot read, are unable to do math at an elementary level, and who are not proficient in English. Anyone who is on that high performance track thwt gets rezoned to those low schools is going to switch to private if they can afford it, or fight like hell to find a loophole to transfer to another school, such as German or Japanese.

There was actually a Republican at large candidate that ran on putting this type of enrichment into the low performing elementary and middle schools, but they were beaten by the current mess of at large candidates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

The thing is, focusing on the high schools is starting at the wrong end.

If they want the lower performing high schools to be more desirable then fcps needs to heavily invest at the elementary level upwards to middle school in literacy (not the whole language nonsense they have been using the past decade or so), rigorous math (not lowering standards in the name of equity), English language proficiency, and rigorous science classes with lots of TJ track style enrichment in the after school programs.

Work up, not down. Play the long game instead of pushing a band aid fix like rezoning that is just designed to make you feel riotous and benevolent, but will surely fail.

You aren't going to get a rigorous, in demand high school program at a high school where half the kids cannot read, are unable to do math at an elementary level, and who are not proficient in English. Anyone who is on that high performance track thwt gets rezoned to those low schools is going to switch to private if they can afford it, or fight like hell to find a loophole to transfer to another school, such as German or Japanese.

There was actually a Republican at large candidate that ran on putting this type of enrichment into the low performing elementary and middle schools, but they were beaten by the current mess of at large candidates.

As noble as this approach is, it's not going to work enough to make a school desirable. I've worked in an alternative school for many years. If a school has 50% ELL kids, no amount of enrichment and programming is going to transform them to meet the same level as native speakers that have additional resources from high-SES families. Our efforts can make a drastic difference in their lives, but there will always be a large gap. How can we expect low-income children who don't learn English until 1st grade to ever attain the same level of achievement?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

The thing is, focusing on the high schools is starting at the wrong end.

If they want the lower performing high schools to be more desirable then fcps needs to heavily invest at the elementary level upwards to middle school in literacy (not the whole language nonsense they have been using the past decade or so), rigorous math (not lowering standards in the name of equity), English language proficiency, and rigorous science classes with lots of TJ track style enrichment in the after school programs.

Work up, not down. Play the long game instead of pushing a band aid fix like rezoning that is just designed to make you feel riotous and benevolent, but will surely fail.

You aren't going to get a rigorous, in demand high school program at a high school where half the kids cannot read, are unable to do math at an elementary level, and who are not proficient in English. Anyone who is on that high performance track thwt gets rezoned to those low schools is going to switch to private if they can afford it, or fight like hell to find a loophole to transfer to another school, such as German or Japanese.

There was actually a Republican at large candidate that ran on putting this type of enrichment into the low performing elementary and middle schools, but they were beaten by the current mess of at large candidates.

There is this type of enrichment already (e.g., young scholars and a host of title 1 programs). It's just a very, very hard problem to solve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

The thing is, focusing on the high schools is starting at the wrong end.

If they want the lower performing high schools to be more desirable then fcps needs to heavily invest at the elementary level upwards to middle school in literacy (not the whole language nonsense they have been using the past decade or so), rigorous math (not lowering standards in the name of equity), English language proficiency, and rigorous science classes with lots of TJ track style enrichment in the after school programs.

Work up, not down. Play the long game instead of pushing a band aid fix like rezoning that is just designed to make you feel riotous and benevolent, but will surely fail.

You aren't going to get a rigorous, in demand high school program at a high school where half the kids cannot read, are unable to do math at an elementary level, and who are not proficient in English. Anyone who is on that high performance track thwt gets rezoned to those low schools is going to switch to private if they can afford it, or fight like hell to find a loophole to transfer to another school, such as German or Japanese.

There was actually a Republican at large candidate that ran on putting this type of enrichment into the low performing elementary and middle schools, but they were beaten by the current mess of at large candidates.

Do you realize that this has been tried and studied in many contexts and hasn't been found to be an effective solution without a lot more systematic change? There is no harm in it, and does create positive engagement for the kids involved so FCPS already has many interventions like this already, but it's no panacea. It's frustrating when political candidates propose what seems like a "no-brainer" idea like this thinking that somehow such an obvious thing like providing enrichment to low-performing schools has never been tried before. Just because they don't know much about it when there are literally hundreds of variations and studies on the impacts of different kinds of enrichment programs like this. Such hubris!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

The thing is, focusing on the high schools is starting at the wrong end.

If they want the lower performing high schools to be more desirable then fcps needs to heavily invest at the elementary level upwards to middle school in literacy (not the whole language nonsense they have been using the past decade or so), rigorous math (not lowering standards in the name of equity), English language proficiency, and rigorous science classes with lots of TJ track style enrichment in the after school programs.

Work up, not down. Play the long game instead of pushing a band aid fix like rezoning that is just designed to make you feel riotous and benevolent, but will surely fail.

You aren't going to get a rigorous, in demand high school program at a high school where half the kids cannot read, are unable to do math at an elementary level, and who are not proficient in English. Anyone who is on that high performance track thwt gets rezoned to those low schools is going to switch to private if they can afford it, or fight like hell to find a loophole to transfer to another school, such as German or Japanese.

There was actually a Republican at large candidate that ran on putting this type of enrichment into the low performing elementary and middle schools, but they were beaten by the current mess of at large candidates.

There is this type of enrichment already (e.g., young scholars and a host of title 1 programs). It's just a very, very hard problem to solve.

Sure.

But you have better luck solving it if you socus on the younger grades.

Trying to solve it by rezoning a dozen or so high school kids per grade who live in Daventry from WSHS to Lewis is not going to magically make Lewis better. It just won't.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s time for the supervisors to designate more west Springfield boundary properties for apartments since they clearly have the space.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

maybe for at large. Anyone going door to door looking for votes in Fort Hunt or Belle View that talks about the possibility of expanding MVHS's boundaries is going to lose in a landslide. The people running pay attention to the areas where people vote and donate and those areas are the most resistant to change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we all pretending like parents don’t also fight like crazy against boundary adjustments? The school board is always in a no-win situation.

It’s only no-win if they care more about the position than doing the best job and being fiscally responsible. Being responsible might mean a lost election and we mustn’t let fiscal responsibility stand in the way of our re-election chances!

Think of our political careers!

If you looked for 12 people in Fairfax County more likely to flip moderate voters in recent and upcoming state and local elections, you couldn’t come up with a better dozen than the current, imbecilic members of the FCPS School Board. Inattention to waste and an inability to establish reasonable priorities aligned with parents’ expectations are just two of their many shortcomings.

So you think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of boundary adjustments?

I think a moderate would be successful running on a platform of committing to understand the reasons why some schools are overcrowded while others are under-enrolled and pledging to oppose inequities such as the massive expansion of West Potomac to 3000 kids while no funds are made available to help other overcrowded schools with less capacity currently than West Potomac. The current School Board pays next to no attention to rampant disparities and several stand to lose their seats next year as a result of their incompetence and indifference.

The thing is, focusing on the high schools is starting at the wrong end.

If they want the lower performing high schools to be more desirable then fcps needs to heavily invest at the elementary level upwards to middle school in literacy (not the whole language nonsense they have been using the past decade or so), rigorous math (not lowering standards in the name of equity), English language proficiency, and rigorous science classes with lots of TJ track style enrichment in the after school programs.

Work up, not down. Play the long game instead of pushing a band aid fix like rezoning that is just designed to make you feel riotous and benevolent, but will surely fail.

You aren't going to get a rigorous, in demand high school program at a high school where half the kids cannot read, are unable to do math at an elementary level, and who are not proficient in English. Anyone who is on that high performance track thwt gets rezoned to those low schools is going to switch to private if they can afford it, or fight like hell to find a loophole to transfer to another school, such as German or Japanese.

There was actually a Republican at large candidate that ran on putting this type of enrichment into the low performing elementary and middle schools, but they were beaten by the current mess of at large candidates.

Do you realize that this has been tried and studied in many contexts and hasn't been found to be an effective solution without a lot more systematic change? There is no harm in it, and does create positive engagement for the kids involved so FCPS already has many interventions like this already, but it's no panacea. It's frustrating when political candidates propose what seems like a "no-brainer" idea like this thinking that somehow such an obvious thing like providing enrichment to low-performing schools has never been tried before. Just because they don't know much about it when there are literally hundreds of variations and studies on the impacts of different kinds of enrichment programs like this. Such hubris!

The instruction received as after schooling [parents or tutors] can be part of the normal POS -program of studies curriculum. Call it enrichment? It's not enrichment. Palathingel [?] was correct. Years ago there was a principal at Crestwood - Core Knowledge, phonics, non-fluff explicit math. This was in FCPS and the establishment seemed to squash it rather than use it systematically. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/11/13/a-school-that-strives-to-serve-its-community/cde3f25e-fdb6-4358-95b0-10b25006ecc6/