Anonymous
11/01/2013 18:22
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Cut funding for a program that is pretending to educate two different groups of kids, who in reality, aren't that different at all. It's a ridiculous division of classes. Create a much smaller program for kids who actually need the different learning environment and stop pretending that AAP is a gifted program.
Yeah, I don't think the Special Ed kids are that different either -- from what I can tell. I think this PP and I should get to decide who actually needs something different.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 18:14
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Anonymous wrote:AAP Transportation: $4.49 million =.18% (less than 2/10 of one percent of budget
at $150000 per teacher, that would hire 30 teachers........
So that would benefit, hmm, 750-900 kids tops? Something like 10-12,000 students participate in the AAP program.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 18:10
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If honors and AAP are the same, we can at least eliminate bussing for middle school AAP centers. That should save something.
Honors and AAP at the middle school level are not the same. See:
http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/pdfs/AAPforMSdiagram.pdf
This is truly a load of hogwash. The two programs are identical, they are just being described using slightly different verbiage. Probably to make AAP parents think their kids are actually getting a special program, just for them. "AAP" and "Honors" classes are one in the same, and it's actually pretty funny to see how they're trying so hard to describe them differently, but can't.
The peer groups are (often dramatically) different.
I know AAP parents love to believe that their snowflakes are in class only with other snowflakes. But please. GE and AAP kids are just not that different. With the exception of a very few, these kids are virtually indistinguishable. As a parent of both AAP and GE kids, I've seen it all. It's embarrassing how some parents of AAP kids firmly believe their children are somehow the elite; and then their kids pick up on that attitude as well. I cringe when I have to admit that I have a child in AAP as I don't want other parents to think I'm one of "those" obnoxious parents.
so cut funding for a program because the parents are obnoxious?
Cut funding for a program that is pretending to educate two different groups of kids, who in reality, aren't that different at all. It's a ridiculous division of classes. Create a much smaller program for kids who actually need the different learning environment and stop pretending that AAP is a gifted program.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 18:08
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Anonymous wrote:what about magnet transportation: Baileys?
Is this is a joke to get me to keep looking back at the report?! You could look it up too! The other transportation categories were magnet schools ($450K), private school transportation for special ed kids whose needs could not be met by FCPS ($4.1 million), Academy HS programs ($2.2 million), late buses ($5.1 million) and a couple others.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 18:04
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
AAP Transportation: $4.49 million =.18% (less than 2/10 of one percent of budget
at $150000 per teacher, that would hire 30 teachers........
Anonymous
11/01/2013 18:01
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
what about magnet transportation: Baileys?
Anonymous
11/01/2013 17:55
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
No TJ transportation was a separate line item, I think it was $1.25 million.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 17:29
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Anonymous wrote:FY 2014 Budget Sources:
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/FY14/ProgramBudgetFY2014.pdf
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/CitizensGuidetoBudget.pdf
Overall Budget: $2.5 Billion
Overall Transportation Costs: $137 million
"Regular" Transportation: $116 million
AAP Transportation: $4.49 million =.18% (less than 2/10 of one percent of budget)
Other $17 million -- other special program transportation
Moreover, presumably AAP transportation costs partially offset the Regular Transportation costs, since those kids are not using the regular buses, so the "true" cost of AAP transportation is even less.
Is TJ transportation included in AAP?
Anonymous
11/01/2013 17:06
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
FY 2014 Budget Sources:
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/FY14/ProgramBudgetFY2014.pdf
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/CitizensGuidetoBudget.pdf
Overall Budget: $2.5 Billion
Overall Transportation Costs: $137 million
"Regular" Transportation: $116 million
AAP Transportation: $4.49 million =.18% (less than 2/10 of one percent of budget)
Other $17 million -- other special program transportation
Moreover, presumably AAP transportation costs partially offset the Regular Transportation costs, since those kids are not using the regular buses, so the "true" cost of AAP transportation is even less.
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/approved/FY14/ProgramBudgetFY2014.pdf
http://www.fcps.edu/fs/budget/documents/CitizensGuidetoBudget.pdf
Overall Budget: $2.5 Billion
Overall Transportation Costs: $137 million
"Regular" Transportation: $116 million
AAP Transportation: $4.49 million =.18% (less than 2/10 of one percent of budget)
Other $17 million -- other special program transportation
Moreover, presumably AAP transportation costs partially offset the Regular Transportation costs, since those kids are not using the regular buses, so the "true" cost of AAP transportation is even less.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 13:42
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Oh brother, I can't believe the same anti-AAP posters saying the same things over and over again have hijacked this thread too. AAP barely takes any budget -- transportation is very minimal, teacher ratio the same as all other classes in the same schools, no special materials. If you really care about the schools and all kids in general, try to see past this one program that bothers you and focus on larger issues.
Then how about you show us those "minimal" transportation costs?
Anonymous
11/01/2013 13:32
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Anonymous wrote:They cut the libraries but then brought back a lot of money for them. These should be cut back again. Especially after the whole book trashing issue. I didn't hear about anyone suffering when they had shorter hours.
I suffer. Society suffers.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 12:54
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
They cut the libraries but then brought back a lot of money for them. These should be cut back again. Especially after the whole book trashing issue. I didn't hear about anyone suffering when they had shorter hours.
Anonymous
11/01/2013 10:31
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Oh brother, I can't believe the same anti-AAP posters saying the same things over and over again have hijacked this thread too. AAP barely takes any budget -- transportation is very minimal, teacher ratio the same as all other classes in the same schools, no special materials. If you really care about the schools and all kids in general, try to see past this one program that bothers you and focus on larger issues.
Anonymous
10/31/2013 12:17
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Anonymous wrote:anyone here know Carol Horn's salary. Seems hard to find.
Can't find it, right? My guess is that it is excessive!
Anonymous
10/31/2013 12:12
Subject: Re:WAPO article about sever FFX school budget cuts
Anonymous wrote:Yes. Why not. Then maybe those parents will up and move
oh. o.k. I though maybe that was where the pp was headed, but didn't want to come right out and say it.
