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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would assume most cuts would be to non-essential programs like AAP?[/quote]
One would hope so but someone somewhere is holding FCPS hostage to this program.

FCPS needs to get rid of the part time AART's and the part time AAP programs.  They are not necessary and wasting  money with no benifit.  Bring the qualified fulltime AAP teachers from the center programs  and distribute them in the base schools. Provide truly advanced classes with placement based on performance and grades not "social difficulties" .  This wil get rid of some of  the "pork"  AAP services in the elementary schools.  Drop the middle school AAP center  program and stick with the, already in place, current self selected AP classes in all base middle schools.  This eliminates the wasted money and countless hours of pay spent for "qualifying" kids, elimanates the part time AAP teachers and programs,  consolidates busing, redistributes the students all while providing a "real" equal oppitunity and quality education for all. [b] Look at all the cost savings!
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How much? Like in the ball park of $48 million spent on ESOL?[/quote]

Except ESOL, no matter how you feel about it, is essential for giving kids in this area a basic public education that meets Virginia standards of learning.  AAP isn't.

And it makes me sad to hear so much ignorance and bigotry on this forum.  Would like to see what you all would be doing if you weren't so lucky to have been born here.  It's an accident of birth that some kids are born to families or in places lacking resources -- not a measure of their worth.  Many of us who have been here for generations are fortunate that our ancestors failed in or were forced to leave their countries earlier.  Like it or not, the US is a country of immigrants and will likely remain a country of immigrants for a long time coming.  [/quote]

[b]It's an accident of birth I wasn't born in Finland which has an excellent school system. But they won't let me just sneak in there and send my kid to school for free and even give them free and reduced fee lunches. [/b] [/quote]

As much as I hate to say it, this is a good point. And there may be people worse off in other countries than those who come here illegally. Some may come because of lack of jobs and educational opportunities in their own countries, but there may be others suffering more -- from starvation, torture, or other atrocities -- who just can't get here from their countries. [b]We should be able to prioritize who to help, if we are going to expend the funds. If we stop providing the jobs and the education, that will reduce the incentive to come here. I do believe that laws should be followed and that we should be back in control of how to allocate our funds, including funds to help those in dire need in other nations[/b].[/quote]

We could probably count on one hand the people on DCUM who would prefer to be in Finland.

Again, I'd have at least some sympathy for this argument if I were seeing some actual numbers that illegal immigrants were overwhelming ESOL as opposed to ignorant assumptions made by many people who don't seem to understand the world very well.  All this talk about "sneaking" and "sending kids for free" is incendiary without having any factual basis that I've seen. [/quote]

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