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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's been a problem for a long time.  FCPS not only has to meet the needs of all the spec ed and esol kids, but it also decides to spend money on all the *gifted* kids and the language immersion kids.  That leaves nothing for the regular kid.[/quote]

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Really tired of paying all these taxes, only to have my "regular" kid pretty much ignored.[/quote]

You people are morons. A very tiny percentage of 'your taxes' goes to educate your kid or any other kid for that matter. 
Every single one of us is paying taxes, from teens to the eldetly - most of whom don't have kids in the public school system.
It's not 'your money' to be spent on 'your kid'. 
Hell, we've been paying for 30 years to get 'your kids' a free public education even while our kids are at a 35k private school and we are not whining like you.[/quote]

Not the taxes poster, but if your kids don't even attend FCPS, how is your opinion on whether others have a concern about the level of spending on nonspecial ED/ESOL kids even relevant.  Of course you're not concerned because your kids aren't in the schools, and so you have no clue about the level of education those kids who are in the schools are getting.  Your taxes don't cover the President's or Congress' salaries either, but I'm pretty sure if they were acting in a manner contrary to your or your kid's interest you'd have an opinion.  The number of ESOL kids in our schools affects spending on nonESOL kids.  As inflation adjusted spending per "regular" child decreases, at some point there will be a decrease in the quality of education.  [/quote]

Because we are all paying to educate ALL of the kids, including the special ones, not to just throw  more money at your kids. Your children are in one of the most generously funded schools in the nation. [/quote]

This isn't about me wanting more money thrown at my kids.  My kids all got into AAP and are getting a fine education.  However, my kids were in Gen Ed through 2nd grade, so I know what the PPs are talking about.  FCPS is overall generously funded, but in many cases is falling short when it comes to regular Gen Ed kids.  You haven't experienced the disparity in allocation of resources and the impact on the quality of education regular kids get in some FCPS, so you really have no basis for calling concerned parents morons.  Send your kids to one of those schools for a year and then come back and comment.[/quote]

It's all about bringing up the bottom. We were the recipients of boundary change that tanked our school in less than five years. The pressure is on to get kids to pass the SOLs. Any type of reading incentives or homework is pretty much shunned. If it can't be accomplished during the school day, forget it because the kids who have involved parents will get ahead. If everybody can't do it, then nobody can. I asked about giving AAP curriculum like literary circle and word study to all and was told most Gen ed kids in our school were not ready. If your kid misses the cut off they're missing out. Expectations are lower when you have high poverty. School board needs to stop concentrating poverty in areas in the eastern and western parts of the county. The school that we received the poverty from had been Title 1 and now has 15% poverty. Why couldn't neighborhoods been split among a few schools?[/quote]

I worked in a title 1 school, and I agree with part of what you say - that it's all about bringing the bottom up, and we pretty much ignored the middle.  However, things like Word Study should be there, especially for the lowest students.  That's just a good practice.  I think the literacy circles are kind of out these days in general.  I would seriously question the instructional competence of any school or teachers not using Word Study.

I also agree that it's not fair the way low-income kids are concentrated in one school.  In my neighborhood, we are that school - 30% ESOL, 30% free and reduced, and all the schools around us are 1%.  And if you look at the boundary you can see that the lowest income areas are actually closer to other elementary schools, but the boundaries have been drawn so that they are concentrated only in our school.  Something is fishy with that.

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