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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That makes no sense. We're waiting to see what they do to AAP Centers to know which MS 6th grade DC will attend-- and they have school tours/orientation and registration, parent info sessions scheduled in the March-April timeframe.  This is now a huge issue for  AAP Center students across the County, who are trying to figure out what the he** is going on.  And if they start disbanding Centers in late May, it will be a huge shuffle of students, boundary changes to balance school numbers with students going back to base schools, a shuffling of teachers so AAP certified teachers end up in schools with AAP classes.  Not to mention that the released calendar has the next round of AAP selection going on this winter. Will they not even start the process of figuring out what to do with all of these students and teachers (more than 20% of grades 3-8) until late May?  Similarly, DS is applying to pupil place IB for HS, which has to be done by April 1, but IB is also on the chopping block.  Similar issues with magnet & immersion students.   Seriously, WTF?  They can't implement changes affecting thousands of students that much, if they don't even start looking at logistics until 3 months before the next school year. [/quote]

First world problems, but they will likely have a grandfathering in for a year. There is only one constant in life, change. [/quote]

Since I'm paying first world real estate, sales and income taxes, a first world school system seems like a fair exchange. Also-- Since all of this $$ apparently MUST be saved in the next school year, how does cutting a prograM but grandfathering it solve anything?[/quote]

To be fair, considering the massive amount of FARMS and ESOL in FCPS, one shouldn't consider it a first world system any longer.[/quote]

While we have more ESOL than the norm in the nation, we still have significantly fewer students receiving free or reduced meals as a percentage of our public school population- so it is not "massive".  Less than 30% of FCPS students receive free/reduce price meals, nationally it is well over 50%.  As Fairfax County continues to urbanize, it will face more economic diversity and we need to plan for that - but saying our current levels of students is "massive" is not accurate.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372[/quote]

Let's get real, it may be 30% average but it's usually split like this

schools 1-10 :1-5% FARMS
Schools: 10-12: 20-30% Farms
Schools: 12-20: 80-100% FARMS[/quote]

Of course, poverty is generally concentrated.  The point still stands, Fairfax county - as a whole- does not have nearly the poverty rates of the rest of the nation (the richest nation I might add).  It should be easily solvable- and it is. [/quote]

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