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Anonymous wrote:8:48 again and for those who don’t understand, the late bus is not the normal bus. It’s a bus that does a longer route to cover a greater distance to take more kids home.

Right but don't a lot of parents pick their kids up?

No idea, because my kids don’t go. Because we are at work and can’t pick our kids up at 3 or 4. [/b]As I said, riding the bus to get home at 6 is unreasonable. [b]Everyone doesn’t work at home or have flexibility in their jobs for a mid afternoon school pick up.

Anonymous wrote:So Young Scholars is out? That is afterschool at middle schools.

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Anonymous wrote:8:48 again and for those who don’t understand, the late bus is not the normal bus. It’s a bus that does a longer route to cover a greater distance to take more kids home.

Right but don't a lot of parents pick their kids up?

No idea, because my kids don’t go. Because we are at work and can’t pick our kids up at 3 or 4. As I said, riding the bus to get home at 6 is unreasonable. Everyone doesn’t work at home or have flexibility in their jobs for a mid afternoon school pick up.

Then how are you picking up your kids at 2 when school gets out? If they ride bus at 2, why not ride bus later if want to do a club? Not following logic.

After school programs at Carson get out at 4:30. The late bus route is pretty long and can take a while to get all the kids home. We pick up DS when he finishes clubs because it takes us 15 minutes to get home versus the 45 minutes it would take on the bus. We car pool with friends of his so it is once a week that we pick up.

The Rachel Carson late bus drops off our middle schooler at 5:00.

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Anonymous wrote:8:48 again and for those who don’t understand, the late bus is not the normal bus. It’s a bus that does a longer route to cover a greater distance to take more kids home.

Right but don't a lot of parents pick their kids up?

No idea, because my kids don’t go. Because we are at work and can’t pick our kids up at 3 or 4. As I said, riding the bus to get home at 6 is unreasonable. Everyone doesn’t work at home or have flexibility in their jobs for a mid afternoon school pick up.

Then how are you picking up your kids at 2 when school gets out? If they ride bus at 2, why not ride bus later if want to do a club? Not following logic.

After school programs at Carson get out at 4:30. The late bus route is pretty long and can take a while to get all the kids home. We pick up DS when he finishes clubs because it takes us 15 minutes to get home versus the 45 minutes it would take on the bus. We car pool with friends of his so it is once a week that we pick up.

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Anonymous wrote:8:48 again and for those who don’t understand, the late bus is not the normal bus. It’s a bus that does a longer route to cover a greater distance to take more kids home.

Right but don't a lot of parents pick their kids up?

No idea, because my kids don’t go. Because we are at work and can’t pick our kids up at 3 or 4. As I said, riding the bus to get home at 6 is unreasonable. Everyone doesn’t work at home or have flexibility in their jobs for a mid afternoon school pick up.

Anonymous wrote:$2 million would be enough to keep MS afterschool programs

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news/fairfax-county-pilot-program-provide-2m-guaranteed-income-180-eligible-families

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Anonymous wrote:8:48 again and for those who don’t understand, the late bus is not the normal bus. It’s a bus that does a longer route to cover a greater distance to take more kids home.

Right but don't a lot of parents pick their kids up?

No idea, because my kids don’t go. Because we are at work and can’t pick our kids up at 3 or 4. As I said, riding the bus to get home at 6 is unreasonable. Everyone doesn’t work at home or have flexibility in their jobs for a mid afternoon school pick up.

Then how are you picking up your kids at 2 when school gets out? If they ride bus at 2, why not ride bus later if want to do a club? Not following logic.

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Anonymous wrote:They are raising assessments AND the property tax rate. I don't understand where all the money goes. The county services our family would use are libraries--which are in complete disrepair and disgusting and unusable--and the ms afterschool program. Our kids play rec soccer and they don't even get to practice on a real field because our league says there is a field shortage. They play rec basketball and practice once a week in school gyms and those are closed half the time and practice is canceled. Other counties have much nicer amenities. Where does all the money go?

70% of our taxes (from food, property, gas, plastic bags, etc) go to Richmond and south.
There's relarively a small/disproportional amt for the northern counties despite the dense population (1.8 million people in Ffx Co...I'm guessing adjacent counties are also almost as highly populated).

+1. It's long past time to tweak the LCI. We should not be sending 70% of our tax dollars downstate and getting pennies in return.

Money flowing to Richmond is why through to have a casino in Fairfax county. It didn’t go through this session, but it will be back again.

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Anonymous wrote:8:48 again and for those who don’t understand, the late bus is not the normal bus. It’s a bus that does a longer route to cover a greater distance to take more kids home.

Right but don't a lot of parents pick their kids up?

No idea, because my kids don’t go. Because we are at work and can’t pick our kids up at 3 or 4. As I said, riding the bus to get home at 6 is unreasonable. Everyone doesn’t work at home or have flexibility in their jobs for a mid afternoon school pick up.

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Anonymous wrote:8:48 again and for those who don’t understand, the late bus is not the normal bus. It’s a bus that does a longer route to cover a greater distance to take more kids home.

Right but don't a lot of parents pick their kids up?

Anonymous wrote:The afterschool programs in FCPS middle schools are nothing special.

This is something that the Rec Centers should take care of.

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Anonymous wrote:They are raising assessments AND the property tax rate. I don't understand where all the money goes. The county services our family would use are libraries--which are in complete disrepair and disgusting and unusable--and the ms afterschool program. Our kids play rec soccer and they don't even get to practice on a real field because our league says there is a field shortage. They play rec basketball and practice once a week in school gyms and those are closed half the time and practice is canceled. Other counties have much nicer amenities. Where does all the money go?

70% of our taxes (from food, property, gas, plastic bags, etc) go to Richmond and south.
There's relarively a small/disproportional amt for the northern counties despite the dense population (1.8 million people in Ffx Co...I'm guessing adjacent counties are also almost as highly populated).

+1. It's long past time to tweak the LCI. We should not be sending 70% of our tax dollars downstate and getting pennies in return.

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Anonymous wrote:I am OK with it. My kidd are out and we would have never complained about the start times. We just changed middle school times and all I saw this year was stupid parents getting angry about middle school times. It was overreaching. 2 years is just fine with a 7:30 start. Stop complaining about small issues.

the after school program is not related to start times and is not a small issue. Stop being a jerk.