Reply to If you were in charge of FCPS, what budget cuts would you make?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "If you were in charge of FCPS, what budget cuts would you make?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]21:12. Yes, but not as many compared to other areas of the country that have lower class sizes and still give raises.[/quote]

This is a pretty generalized comment. What other areas? What's the academic performance of their schools? Fairfax County schools continuously top the lists of best schools in the country, and many people (including myself) move here for solely for the schools. So we're not exactly representative of the rest of the nation.

And please, people, enough with the "affluent county." Obviously, a growing sector of our student population is [i]not[/i] affluent, or we would be able to continue to support the services the county has provided for decades. I've seen it in our local school, and I'm sure many of you have as well. Poor kids tend to require more resources--not a judgement, just a statement of fact. I don't know the cause, exactly, but no use in pretending there's a big mystery around why FCPS is in financial trouble.[/quote]

The main issue is that FCPS has a higher % of its population enrolled in public schools.  So, there are fewer working adults to fund more kids.  Arlington's % is less than 10%, Fairfax's is over 16%.  That alone creates problems with funding.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics