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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but the way the tool works is it only accounts for the cost of the program being cut, not cost of the IMPACT of the program being cut.

For example, compare it to a personal budget.  Every week, you spend $50 on gas, $100 on groceries, and $200 on rent.  If you cut gas from your budget, you save $50.  However, that doesn't account for the impact of no longer having gas.  You'd need to find an alternate form of transportation that doesn't involve gas.  So you'll be ADDING another item to the budget in response . . . whether it is metro, uber, a bicycle, etc.

In the context of the immersion program, for some people it will just be a wash.  Maybe three students will return to a particular base school, be easily absorbed, and all will provide their own personal transportation.  That is money saved.

However, it is also positive that 20-30 students from an immersion program return to the same base school, and that school is already overcrowded.  They need to hire additional teachers to maintain legal ratios, and possibly purchase trailers for classroom space.  That would actually cost the school more money than they are saving on those 20-30 students not being in immersion. [/quote]

How do you know that?  I haven't seen anything that says how they calculated (or didn't calculate) the number associated with each "cut".  Other posters in other threads assume that the numbers associated with each cut include all increases and decreases associated with it.  I get that they are trying to transparent, but the system is so complicated, that I think their "transparency" is simply confusing.  [/quote]

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