Anonymous
03/23/2025 21:29
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
Is this real?
I did a keyword search in the budget and didn’t see it but maybe PP will provide a page #
Anonymous
03/23/2025 19:58
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s time to take bold action and kill Montessori once and for a
Were you not invited to birthday parties as a kid? You seem to have a pathological hatred for preK. BTW, this program is very popular and successful.
I would assume the Montessori preschool was self funded with fees?
Anonymous
03/23/2025 16:33
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s time to take bold action and kill Montessori once and for a
Were you not invited to birthday parties as a kid? You seem to have a pathological hatred for preK. BTW, this program is very popular and successful.
I think they are probably referring to MPSA
Anonymous
03/23/2025 16:18
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:It’s time to take bold action and kill Montessori once and for a
Were you not invited to birthday parties as a kid? You seem to have a pathological hatred for preK. BTW, this program is very popular and successful.
Anonymous
03/23/2025 10:36
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
That’s almost enough money to save all the library assistant jobs
APS spends a million dollars for outdoor lab. That's a lot of money. It is an INCREASE of 100K. That could pay for a lot of other things. Like library aides.
Anonymous
03/22/2025 14:14
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
Is this real?
Wouldn’t surprise me if it was. Wraparound services and language support are needed if these kids are going to learn effectively. Ideally you’d have county social work do it, but we dump all of our problems on schools and that’s ultimately where the rubber meets the road.
I grew up in the dark ages in a different place and they had to invest a lot in ESL and supports, too. None of this is a new concept. The only difference seems to be the Boomers got old and their kids graduated so they don’t want to pay for anything schools anymore.
I did too and the difference was we didn't throw them in class on day one with an hour of push-in/pull-out. They were supported all day for a short time while they were acclimated and learned English. Their parents also learned English and adapted to how American schools operated.
And we weren’t cutting librarians to pay for it.
Anonymous
03/22/2025 14:12
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
Is this real?
Wouldn’t surprise me if it was. Wraparound services and language support are needed if these kids are going to learn effectively. Ideally you’d have county social work do it, but we dump all of our problems on schools and that’s ultimately where the rubber meets the road.
I grew up in the dark ages in a different place and they had to invest a lot in ESL and supports, too. None of this is a new concept. The only difference seems to be the Boomers got old and their kids graduated so they don’t want to pay for anything schools anymore.
I did too and the difference was we didn't throw them in class on day one with an hour of push-in/pull-out. They were supported all day for a short time while they were acclimated and learned English. Their parents also learned English and adapted to how American schools operated.
Anonymous
03/22/2025 13:35
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
Is this real?
Wouldn’t surprise me if it was. Wraparound services and language support are needed if these kids are going to learn effectively. Ideally you’d have county social work do it, but we dump all of our problems on schools and that’s ultimately where the rubber meets the road.
I grew up in the dark ages in a different place and they had to invest a lot in ESL and supports, too. None of this is a new concept. The only difference seems to be the Boomers got old and their kids graduated so they don’t want to pay for anything schools anymore.
So people get to live here illegally, have citizens pay for their free school, and they get extra taxpayer services on top of it… And everyone else gets huge class sizes.
Make it make sense.
I’m no Republican, but it’s not hard to see how Trump won.
Anonymous
03/22/2025 13:28
Subject: APS Budget Process
It’s time to take bold action and kill Montessori once and for a
Anonymous
03/22/2025 13:02
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Speaking of vulnerable students, where is the outrage at increasing class sizes at Title 1 schools when federal funding is likely also being slashed?
Everyone is getting less than, so I don’t want to hear another word about this one program and the students that can be served perfectly well at other existing programs. Maybe then you’ll also care that those schools are perpetually underfunded relative to their needs.
There isn't outrage because they are not increasing T1 class sizes.
An APS teacher made this claim on FB. That’s where I got this info. Glad to hear it’s a mistake.
Is it? They are calling for cutting staff to better align with class size planning factors. Is there an exception that Title 1 schools that they have lower class size planning factors?
Who is they?
They is “APS”, based on the recommendations of the Baker Tilly report.
APS is not cutting staff at Title 1 schools at least not as far as I can tell. Did you actually look at the budget? It's online, go look at the Title 1 schools.
APS didn't follow everything in the B-T report.
It was 400+ pages and staff cuts to align with planning factors were advertised. While I love a good read and have in fact read it, I was wondering if anyone with more detailed knowledge of specific conditions at say, Drew knew what was going on.
Answered my own equation. 1 classroom teacher cut, slight adds to special ed/ESL, for a net loss of about 1 position, compared to a projected growth in 30 students. That’s a cut.
Okay that's one school. Check a few more. What I saw was that they are about the same. Give or take 1. It's also impossible to tell if that's just because of a change to the current projected student population. Schools' staffing allocations change all the time as student population goes up or down.
Anyways, I don't think a net loss of one classroom teacher at one school is something to get too worked up about.
My point is that Title 1 status is not saving them. They are projecting slight increases in students and are still down one FTE. It’s not huge, but it is still a cut.
It's a cut of one position at one school. Maybe they were overstaffed before? I'm not exactly outraged.
Anonymous
03/22/2025 12:45
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
Is this real?
Wouldn’t surprise me if it was. Wraparound services and language support are needed if these kids are going to learn effectively. Ideally you’d have county social work do it, but we dump all of our problems on schools and that’s ultimately where the rubber meets the road.
I grew up in the dark ages in a different place and they had to invest a lot in ESL and supports, too. None of this is a new concept. The only difference seems to be the Boomers got old and their kids graduated so they don’t want to pay for anything schools anymore.
Anonymous
03/22/2025 12:41
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Speaking of vulnerable students, where is the outrage at increasing class sizes at Title 1 schools when federal funding is likely also being slashed?
Everyone is getting less than, so I don’t want to hear another word about this one program and the students that can be served perfectly well at other existing programs. Maybe then you’ll also care that those schools are perpetually underfunded relative to their needs.
There isn't outrage because they are not increasing T1 class sizes.
An APS teacher made this claim on FB. That’s where I got this info. Glad to hear it’s a mistake.
Is it? They are calling for cutting staff to better align with class size planning factors. Is there an exception that Title 1 schools that they have lower class size planning factors?
Who is they?
They is “APS”, based on the recommendations of the Baker Tilly report.
APS is not cutting staff at Title 1 schools at least not as far as I can tell. Did you actually look at the budget? It's online, go look at the Title 1 schools.
APS didn't follow everything in the B-T report.
It was 400+ pages and staff cuts to align with planning factors were advertised. While I love a good read and have in fact read it, I was wondering if anyone with more detailed knowledge of specific conditions at say, Drew knew what was going on.
Answered my own equation. 1 classroom teacher cut, slight adds to special ed/ESL, for a net loss of about 1 position, compared to a projected growth in 30 students. That’s a cut.
Okay that's one school. Check a few more. What I saw was that they are about the same. Give or take 1. It's also impossible to tell if that's just because of a change to the current projected student population. Schools' staffing allocations change all the time as student population goes up or down.
Anyways, I don't think a net loss of one classroom teacher at one school is something to get too worked up about.
My point is that Title 1 status is not saving them. They are projecting slight increases in students and are still down one FTE. It’s not huge, but it is still a cut.
Anonymous
03/21/2025 18:10
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
Is this real?
Anonymous
03/21/2025 07:35
Subject: APS Budget Process
They could get rid of aquatics and outdoor lab and save library
Anonymous
03/20/2025 19:58
Subject: APS Budget Process
Anonymous wrote:$857k for immigrant support, including emotional support. WTF. I am beginning to feel annoyance over the ripoff we have put up with for 40 years with no kids in Arlington. Sure yah yah housing values but WTF.
That’s almost enough money to save all the library assistant jobs