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Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
Will Radle
()
Date: May 03, 2014 05:08AM
Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20140502/OPINION/140509777/1065/fairfax-county-school-board-found-voiceless&template=fairfaxTimes
First, I want to thank Megan McLaughlin and Elizabeth Schultz, the only two School Board Members who sought to give voice to Fairfax County in front of the Virginia Board of Education.
On April 10, Megan McLaughlin (Braddock) and Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield), Democratic and Republican endorsed respectively, sought to move two school hours from June 25 to June 23 making that Monday a full instructional day for elementary students and saving Fairfax County $300,000 in fuel costs by making Tuesday, June 24 the final school day.
All instruction and testing will be completed well before June 25. The expense now is only necessary for compliance with a bureaucratic rule. The School Board may formally request a waiver from the rule.
How productive can this time be for students on June 25? As you know, the first and last hour of work are typically the least productive as you settle in and then prepare to leave. No students will stare at the clock counting seconds before summer break. Not in Fairfax County, right? Adding two hours to the shortened Monday schedule would have been more effective time management as well as money management.
Speaking of money, have you heard? Fairfax County Public Schools does not have funds to waste. With our priorities, we never have money to waste. In fact, as you likely know, we are expecting a $21 million reduction in support from Richmond while increasing our student population by over 3,000 new students at an increased cost of over $25 million.
The request for a waiver from the Virginia Board of Education allowing Fairfax County Public Schools to invest time and funds more wisely would have cost us nothing and saved us $300,000 at least. When pinching pennies, every piece helps.
School Board members Moon, McElveen, Velkoff, Strauss, Hynes, Derenak Kaufax, Evans, Storck, Reed, and Smith each voted to deny Fairfax County a voice to make the reasonable request.
If they will not use the platform we provide and advocate our community’s best interests, why should they be trusted with our voice or our vote?
I remain curious what actions would have been taken by Chris Braunlich, President of Virginia Board of Education, former Fairfax County School Board Member and vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy where he promotes free markets, limited government and individual responsibility, if asked to help Fairfax County better manage our time and $300,000 from taxpayers by granting the waiver.
The irony, of course, now June 25, 2014 is another day Fairfax County students cannot run off to spend money supporting Virginia’s tourism industry at King’s Dominion unless their families skip the last non-curriculum school day and further undermine the argument for wasting $300,000 in fuel costs. Thank you.
Will Radle, Fairfax County
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20140502/OPINION/140509777/1065/fairfax-county-school-board-found-voiceless&template=fairfaxTimes
First, I want to thank Megan McLaughlin and Elizabeth Schultz, the only two School Board Members who sought to give voice to Fairfax County in front of the Virginia Board of Education.
On April 10, Megan McLaughlin (Braddock) and Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield), Democratic and Republican endorsed respectively, sought to move two school hours from June 25 to June 23 making that Monday a full instructional day for elementary students and saving Fairfax County $300,000 in fuel costs by making Tuesday, June 24 the final school day.
All instruction and testing will be completed well before June 25. The expense now is only necessary for compliance with a bureaucratic rule. The School Board may formally request a waiver from the rule.
How productive can this time be for students on June 25? As you know, the first and last hour of work are typically the least productive as you settle in and then prepare to leave. No students will stare at the clock counting seconds before summer break. Not in Fairfax County, right? Adding two hours to the shortened Monday schedule would have been more effective time management as well as money management.
Speaking of money, have you heard? Fairfax County Public Schools does not have funds to waste. With our priorities, we never have money to waste. In fact, as you likely know, we are expecting a $21 million reduction in support from Richmond while increasing our student population by over 3,000 new students at an increased cost of over $25 million.
The request for a waiver from the Virginia Board of Education allowing Fairfax County Public Schools to invest time and funds more wisely would have cost us nothing and saved us $300,000 at least. When pinching pennies, every piece helps.
School Board members Moon, McElveen, Velkoff, Strauss, Hynes, Derenak Kaufax, Evans, Storck, Reed, and Smith each voted to deny Fairfax County a voice to make the reasonable request.
If they will not use the platform we provide and advocate our community’s best interests, why should they be trusted with our voice or our vote?
I remain curious what actions would have been taken by Chris Braunlich, President of Virginia Board of Education, former Fairfax County School Board Member and vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy where he promotes free markets, limited government and individual responsibility, if asked to help Fairfax County better manage our time and $300,000 from taxpayers by granting the waiver.
The irony, of course, now June 25, 2014 is another day Fairfax County students cannot run off to spend money supporting Virginia’s tourism industry at King’s Dominion unless their families skip the last non-curriculum school day and further undermine the argument for wasting $300,000 in fuel costs. Thank you.
Will Radle, Fairfax County
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
But
()
Date: May 03, 2014 07:43AM
Yes it sucks. Nobody wants to be in school this long. Problem is VA DOE would not grant a waiver to FCPS for the 11 snow days, therefore FCPS must honor the full 180 day mandate.
Now, you want to raise a ruckus? How stupid is it that FCPS must continue a full month after SOL testing ends in late May/early June? How much learning is going on those last several weeks? VA DOE allows many other school divisions to start school in late August and get out in early June, like most school divisions in the country. Those schools get a full month more of test prep for SOLS too. But yeah, it's because the state depends on wealthy Fairfax to vacation through Labor Day to subsidize the rest of the state. how fair is that?
Now, you want to raise a ruckus? How stupid is it that FCPS must continue a full month after SOL testing ends in late May/early June? How much learning is going on those last several weeks? VA DOE allows many other school divisions to start school in late August and get out in early June, like most school divisions in the country. Those schools get a full month more of test prep for SOLS too. But yeah, it's because the state depends on wealthy Fairfax to vacation through Labor Day to subsidize the rest of the state. how fair is that?
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
dvVCG
()
Date: May 03, 2014 12:33PM
Why didn't they make them go on Saturdays? That's what I had to do when I was in school.
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
We need a voice!
()
Date: May 03, 2014 02:50PM
This is really weird, because before they got lost they had a voice,and they're found voiceless. Who would silence them? Oh, this is just awful.
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
mommmmmm
()
Date: May 03, 2014 03:00PM
I work in a fcps elementary school the last weeks will be day care. In the high school I am not even sending m kids. they have not pushed back the finals so they will be doing nothing except getting in trouble on the last day they do not even go to class they stick then in the gym for two hours. It like an episode of prison lock up...
If you want day care send them if not just keep them home. The best part is the fcps memo saying meaningful instruction will occur LOL!
If you want day care send them if not just keep them home. The best part is the fcps memo saying meaningful instruction will occur LOL!
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
Concerned Fleeced Taxpayer
()
Date: May 03, 2014 03:31PM
Will Radle Wrote:
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> Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
> http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20140502/OPINI
> ON/140509777/1065/fairfax-county-school-board-foun
> d-voiceless&template=fairfaxTimes
>
> First, I want to thank Megan McLaughlin and
> Elizabeth Schultz, the only two School Board
> Members who sought to give voice to Fairfax County
> in front of the Virginia Board of Education.
>
> On April 10, Megan McLaughlin (Braddock) and
> Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield), Democratic and
> Republican endorsed respectively, sought to move
> two school hours from June 25 to June 23 making
> that Monday a full instructional day for
> elementary students and saving Fairfax County
> $300,000 in fuel costs by making Tuesday, June 24
> the final school day.
>
> All instruction and testing will be completed well
> before June 25. The expense now is only necessary
> for compliance with a bureaucratic rule. The
> School Board may formally request a waiver from
> the rule.
>
> How productive can this time be for students on
> June 25? As you know, the first and last hour of
> work are typically the least productive as you
> settle in and then prepare to leave. No students
> will stare at the clock counting seconds before
> summer break. Not in Fairfax County, right? Adding
> two hours to the shortened Monday schedule would
> have been more effective time management as well
> as money management.
>
> Speaking of money, have you heard? Fairfax County
> Public Schools does not have funds to waste. With
> our priorities, we never have money to waste. In
> fact, as you likely know, we are expecting a $21
> million reduction in support from Richmond while
> increasing our student population by over 3,000
> new students at an increased cost of over $25
> million.
>
> The request for a waiver from the Virginia Board
> of Education allowing Fairfax County Public
> Schools to invest time and funds more wisely would
> have cost us nothing and saved us $300,000 at
> least. When pinching pennies, every piece helps.
>
> School Board members Moon, McElveen, Velkoff,
> Strauss, Hynes, Derenak Kaufax, Evans, Storck,
> Reed, and Smith each voted to deny Fairfax County
> a voice to make the reasonable request.
>
> If they will not use the platform we provide and
> advocate our community’s best interests, why
> should they be trusted with our voice or our
> vote?
>
> I remain curious what actions would have been
> taken by Chris Braunlich, President of Virginia
> Board of Education, former Fairfax County School
> Board Member and vice president of the Thomas
> Jefferson Institute for Public Policy where he
> promotes free markets, limited government and
> individual responsibility, if asked to help
> Fairfax County better manage our time and $300,000
> from taxpayers by granting the waiver.
>
> The irony, of course, now June 25, 2014 is another
> day Fairfax County students cannot run off to
> spend money supporting Virginia’s tourism
> industry at King’s Dominion unless their
> families skip the last non-curriculum school day
> and further undermine the argument for wasting
> $300,000 in fuel costs. Thank you.
>
> Will Radle, Fairfax County
Why is it that Sharon Boliva and her merry band of tax and spend thieves can't figure out simple ways, like this, to save money? I'm certain this one one of dozens, if not hundreds, of relatively easy and simple things that can be done to save money. Combined, all of them would save tens of millions of dollars.
However, it is far easier for Sharon Boliva and all of her idiot minions on the Board of Supervisors to keep increasing taxes, to balance the budget, than it is to eliminate the tens of millions of dollars that are wasted annually by those clueless boffoons.
They are so clueless they couldn't throw an achor over the side of a boat and hit water.
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> Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
> http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20140502/OPINI
> ON/140509777/1065/fairfax-county-school-board-foun
> d-voiceless&template=fairfaxTimes
>
> First, I want to thank Megan McLaughlin and
> Elizabeth Schultz, the only two School Board
> Members who sought to give voice to Fairfax County
> in front of the Virginia Board of Education.
>
> On April 10, Megan McLaughlin (Braddock) and
> Elizabeth Schultz (Springfield), Democratic and
> Republican endorsed respectively, sought to move
> two school hours from June 25 to June 23 making
> that Monday a full instructional day for
> elementary students and saving Fairfax County
> $300,000 in fuel costs by making Tuesday, June 24
> the final school day.
>
> All instruction and testing will be completed well
> before June 25. The expense now is only necessary
> for compliance with a bureaucratic rule. The
> School Board may formally request a waiver from
> the rule.
>
> How productive can this time be for students on
> June 25? As you know, the first and last hour of
> work are typically the least productive as you
> settle in and then prepare to leave. No students
> will stare at the clock counting seconds before
> summer break. Not in Fairfax County, right? Adding
> two hours to the shortened Monday schedule would
> have been more effective time management as well
> as money management.
>
> Speaking of money, have you heard? Fairfax County
> Public Schools does not have funds to waste. With
> our priorities, we never have money to waste. In
> fact, as you likely know, we are expecting a $21
> million reduction in support from Richmond while
> increasing our student population by over 3,000
> new students at an increased cost of over $25
> million.
>
> The request for a waiver from the Virginia Board
> of Education allowing Fairfax County Public
> Schools to invest time and funds more wisely would
> have cost us nothing and saved us $300,000 at
> least. When pinching pennies, every piece helps.
>
> School Board members Moon, McElveen, Velkoff,
> Strauss, Hynes, Derenak Kaufax, Evans, Storck,
> Reed, and Smith each voted to deny Fairfax County
> a voice to make the reasonable request.
>
> If they will not use the platform we provide and
> advocate our community’s best interests, why
> should they be trusted with our voice or our
> vote?
>
> I remain curious what actions would have been
> taken by Chris Braunlich, President of Virginia
> Board of Education, former Fairfax County School
> Board Member and vice president of the Thomas
> Jefferson Institute for Public Policy where he
> promotes free markets, limited government and
> individual responsibility, if asked to help
> Fairfax County better manage our time and $300,000
> from taxpayers by granting the waiver.
>
> The irony, of course, now June 25, 2014 is another
> day Fairfax County students cannot run off to
> spend money supporting Virginia’s tourism
> industry at King’s Dominion unless their
> families skip the last non-curriculum school day
> and further undermine the argument for wasting
> $300,000 in fuel costs. Thank you.
>
> Will Radle, Fairfax County
Why is it that Sharon Boliva and her merry band of tax and spend thieves can't figure out simple ways, like this, to save money? I'm certain this one one of dozens, if not hundreds, of relatively easy and simple things that can be done to save money. Combined, all of them would save tens of millions of dollars.
However, it is far easier for Sharon Boliva and all of her idiot minions on the Board of Supervisors to keep increasing taxes, to balance the budget, than it is to eliminate the tens of millions of dollars that are wasted annually by those clueless boffoons.
They are so clueless they couldn't throw an achor over the side of a boat and hit water.
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
Concerned Tax Payer
()
Date: May 03, 2014 04:08PM
mommmmmm Wrote:
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> I work in a fcps elementary school the last weeks
> will be day care.
Then maybe you should learn to do your JOB! We're not paying you to sit on your ass.
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> I work in a fcps elementary school the last weeks
> will be day care.
Then maybe you should learn to do your JOB! We're not paying you to sit on your ass.
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
But
()
Date: May 03, 2014 04:35PM
It has nothing to do with Bulova/BOS. It is state BOE not allowing FCPS to waive the 11 missed school days due to snow.
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
yourfunny44
()
Date: May 03, 2014 05:55PM
Concerned Tax Payer Wrote:
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> mommmmmm Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I work in a fcps elementary school the last
> weeks
> > will be day care.
>
> Then maybe you should learn to do your JOB! We're
> not paying you to sit on your ass.
First of all I never said I was a teacher and who is this "we " you says pays me . What a joke you are ...
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> mommmmmm Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I work in a fcps elementary school the last
> weeks
> > will be day care.
>
> Then maybe you should learn to do your JOB! We're
> not paying you to sit on your ass.
First of all I never said I was a teacher and who is this "we " you says pays me . What a joke you are ...
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
Concerned Tax Payer
()
Date: May 03, 2014 05:57PM
yourfunny44 Wrote:
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> Concerned Tax Payer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > mommmmmm Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > I work in a fcps elementary school the last
> > weeks
> > > will be day care.
> >
> > Then maybe you should learn to do your JOB!
> We're
> > not paying you to sit on your ass.
>
> First of all I never said I was a teacher and who
> is this "we " you says pays me . What a joke you
> are ...
Learn to read, I never said you were a teacher, just that you were lazy and needed to get to work. Thanks for proving my point fat ass.
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> Concerned Tax Payer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > mommmmmm Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > I work in a fcps elementary school the last
> > weeks
> > > will be day care.
> >
> > Then maybe you should learn to do your JOB!
> We're
> > not paying you to sit on your ass.
>
> First of all I never said I was a teacher and who
> is this "we " you says pays me . What a joke you
> are ...
Learn to read, I never said you were a teacher, just that you were lazy and needed to get to work. Thanks for proving my point fat ass.
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
fattass
()
Date: May 04, 2014 09:29AM
you need to learn to read its the weekend and I am a slave larborer intern and your ass is probably fatter then mine I never said I wasn't working. ! I am making a general observation ,go to any school the last day and show me work being done by students Dumb ass.
Re: Fairfax County School Board found voiceless
Posted by:
ewwn
()
Date: May 05, 2014 10:38PM
stop raising the taxes