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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the school board approved the proposal to shift MVCS back to a traditional calendar year last night.

This without polling parents.

This without a committment to fully fund the alternative summer learning program.

The meeting was a fiasco, IMO, and demonstrated exactly why we will not be sending our rising Kindergartener to MVCS.  Every discussion was about helping ESL students and pumping more and more finding into programs for ESL students at the expense of the non-ESL kids.  We would have been excited for the intercession program for our child, and the opportunity to learn and expand his horizons in different areas during school vacation breaks.

Now, that taxpayer money which would have benefitted our non-ESL son is going to be pumped into more and more ESL programs during the summer, which will not benefit him at all.

School Board:  You are alienating and offending the higher taxpayers in the city![/quote]

We are Del Ray family with a child districted to enter K at MVCS in 2015 and I feel the EXACT same way as this poster.  It makes me sick to think how much we pay in property tax for our little modest Alexandria home and in return have elementary school and board leadership who appear to have no commitment to channeling resources to benefit our child.  This is a disgrace.[/quote]

The School Board has invited the criticism it's getting.  I wish we had the old one back.  
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