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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all the hoopla around the later HS start times and justification of the Millions $$$ spent, their was no mention of the MS students getting screwed. Bait and Switch.  Karen Garza was so eager to get this through that there was no transparency about the downside, which should have been discussed. Certainly, no one raised this at our MS last year. When you add this to the high stakes budget BS, she's building a lot of distrust. [/quote]

+100.  At some point, she is going to need FCPS stakeholders to support her.  And is going to get FCPS's collective middle finger.  I certainly no longer trust her.  Full day Mondays are nice (working mom here!), MS start times suck.  But what get me is what she is doing with the budget-- essentially pitting FCPS parents against each other to save immersion, AAP, sports, etc. is awful.  And, she's crying wolf on this one.[/quote]

I'm not sure what a "total strawman" is.  But (1) Garza is overstating the budget problem  and being alarmist-- and now saying that 2017-2018 will be even worse, and 2018-2019 worse than that,  before we ever deal with this year and (2) there are ways to get community input without a budget tool that has parents choosing which programs to cut (that is, selecting the ones that don't affect their kids).  It shouldn't been AAP vs immersion vs HS sports-- Hunger Games style fight to see who gets to keep their program.  It should be, how are we are a community going to come together to make tough choices about taxes, fees, and yes, cutting costs.  But there has to be a less divisive approach.[/quote]

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