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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We contact the supervisors. Ours is Herrity and he insists the school budget is fully funded.

Perhaps the schools just need to make some big time cuts. My wife and I both teach for FCPS. I can see how every year the schools look like they are crying wolf. Changes are made, but overall the public doesn't see them. They aren't affected. [/quote]

FCPS has made 500 million in cuts and over 2100 positions since 2008. HALF A BILLION INC CUTS. There is nothing left to cut.

Will school continue to be in session? Sure. But if anyone thinks we can maintain any semblance of a high quality education, they are delusional. [/quote]

The general public isn't going to push the supervisors to fund the schools' budget unless they notice cuts. I don't want to make more cuts, but if that is what it takes...

Cut instructional coaches, sports (or pay $$$ to play), Level IV AAP, 4th grade strings, some high school electives. Stop paying the AP testing fees. [/quote]

Cutting AAP will drive a lot of affluent families (and their property taxes) away. The only reason we put up with living in Fairfax rather than Arlington was the existence of AAP.
I'm all for stopping other subsidies such as AP testing fees (which overwhelmingly subsidize the rich), sports (no reason to subsidize athletes' hobbies over any other ones) and cutting positions such as the AAP coordinator (the person at the school who handles your application) and does some of those useless pull-outs a couple of hours a week) and some IAs and counselors.
The school system also needs to dramatically decrease its CIP. We moved here from a city where my kids attended school in buildings that dated back to the late nineteenth century (whose interiors had of course been updated). No fancy buildings like what FCPS builds every 25 years, but the education was better. Same goes for the libraries--fewer shiny new buildings, better books and programs.[/quote]

How much do sports cost the high schools? Could they all be clubs that are allowed to play on the fields and  be affiliated with the school, but not get as much money towards them? Do the schools give financial aid to children who can't pay? The equipment alone is usually very expensive.[/quote]

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