Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oof, if I were a local business owner I’d be campaigning to keep the program. On Fridays when it doesn’t happen the local shopping centers are mobbed with middle schoolers behaving poorly, to the point cops have been called many times.

12-14 year olds cannot get out at 2:15 and be on their own for 3-5 hours. They will find trouble.

If they’re pushing middle schoolers to be the late start/end schools, I’m okay with it.

I really think the school board should move middle school to 9:40 to 4:40, and start elementary around 7:45.

Middle schoolers will be able to sleep in, and will be dupervised from 2:30-4:30 instead of causing trouble at the local shopping centers.

There are no local shopping centers near our MS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oof, if I were a local business owner I’d be campaigning to keep the program. On Fridays when it doesn’t happen the local shopping centers are mobbed with middle schoolers behaving poorly, to the point cops have been called many times.

12-14 year olds cannot get out at 2:15 and be on their own for 3-5 hours. They will find trouble.

If they’re pushing middle schoolers to be the late start/end schools, I’m okay with it.

I really think the school board should move middle school to 9:40 to 4:40, and start elementary around 7:45.

Middle schoolers will be able to sleep in, and will be dupervised from 2:30-4:30 instead of causing trouble at the local shopping centers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oof, if I were a local business owner I’d be campaigning to keep the program. On Fridays when it doesn’t happen the local shopping centers are mobbed with middle schoolers behaving poorly, to the point cops have been called many times.

12-14 year olds cannot get out at 2:15 and be on their own for 3-5 hours. They will find trouble.

If they’re pushing middle schoolers to be the late start/end schools, I’m okay with it.

Why are today’s 12-15yo kids less capable of being allowed to get out at 2:30 than GenX at the same age? And don’t even start with the nonsense that moms were home. We were the latchkey kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tell Youngkin to stop cutting the budget.

The issue is not Youngkin.

It is the school board blowing through a 4 billion dollar budget, and the Board of Supervisors wasting money on Universal Basic Income for certain zip codes, and a multi million dollar Covid Memorial. The hidden cost is that the scores of new arrivals who don't speak English costs thousands of dollars more per pupil than the legal residents of FCPS.

Tell your Board of Supervisors and school board to quit wasting money on stupid stuff.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the middle schools do what elementary PTAs do, and offer after school activities from outside organizations?

Or perhaps fcps can keep the activities but ditch the late busses. Parents who want the activities can pick up their own kids.

I know you mean well PP, but both suggestions revreal an extremely privileged lens. Please take a step back and remember that public schools are meant to provide opportunity and access to all students they serve.

Anonymous wrote:Oof, if I were a local business owner I’d be campaigning to keep the program. On Fridays when it doesn’t happen the local shopping centers are mobbed with middle schoolers behaving poorly, to the point cops have been called many times.

12-14 year olds cannot get out at 2:15 and be on their own for 3-5 hours. They will find trouble.

If they’re pushing middle schoolers to be the late start/end schools, I’m okay with it.

Anonymous wrote:There is a separate thread about start times, this is about middle school after school programs.

Anonymous wrote:So not only do our middle school kids have to still have a crappy 7:30 at start time next year, but now they have absolutely nothing to look forward to after school. And they may have to move middle schools due to the boundary changes. F you, school board and Reid.

Anonymous wrote:I agree that these programs or after school busses could be cut in favor of having funds for other priorities like teacher raises

Anonymous wrote:Are they looking to cancel these programs because they are planning on the option where middle starts at 9:30??

Anonymous wrote:^also that was an attempt at gallows humor.
I actually do think the middle school programs are worth the investment. It may be that the late bus is what costs sooo much money, but you can’t cut those bc boundaries for some are too far away to hike home in the cold and-or dark.