Get Schooled

By herefromcalifornia

October 10, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

I moved my family here from California (the Bay Area). The schools there have NO money. I was shocked when we came here and I saw all the positions that are no longer found anywhere in CA, i.e., counselors at any level (not even in HS there), school nurses, school social workers, media specialists, media clerks (some elementary schools in CA don’t even have media centers! ours was run by parent volunteers), art teachers, chorus teachers, band teachers below HS, assistant principals (here often many in one school!), teacher assistants, graduation coaches, coaches and teams for athletic teams below high school, language teachers, cafeteria workers, (school funded cafeterias!—ours had those trolley vendors that pull up outside office buildings and sell sandwiches and hotdogs), bus drivers (kids in our district had to walk, ride or take public transportation at their own expense), all day kindergarten, all day preschool, and after school care.

My point is, you will be very shocked at what schools will be able to cut once the funding runs dry. A little at a time parents in CA have gotten accustomed to having schools that provide absolutely nothing but the basics. They don’t even complain about it.

The worst is yet to come.

By lovemy4kids

October 10, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

To understand how our economy really works, and why we are entering a recession/depression read this:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=55601

view this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ&feature=related

By catlady

October 11, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

We DO have a lot of silliness funded in the schools, as the California move-in noted. Schools should be for education. If students need other services, it should be up to the parents to provide. Yeah, I know a troubled kid cannot do his best at school, but it is up to the parents to get counseling, etc. You come to school, you work hard at what is offered, and anything else is up to your folks to provide. DFACS enforces. IMHO. We have too many people rushing (or sitting) around with papers in their hands looking busy, while the classroom teacher doesn’t have time to pee, takes hours of work home in the evening, etc.

I look at the incredible proliferation of people working in the CO in my small county. 35 years ago, there was supt, an asst supt, a visiting teacher, two secretaries, and a bookkeeper. There was also a psychometrist on an as -needed basis. Now we have about twice as many students but there are about 40 people working out of the CO full time, and about a dozen part time (retired and being rewarded). Yet class sizes have not significantly declined.

Hopefully Dekalb can rein in their administrative and special program costs (how many make over $100,000, and isn’t the cost of a maxed out teacher—T7 and max experience—about $80,000 per year?) Also, please keep the janitorial staff, rather than passing more of that onto the teachers. Put off cutting the football field for an extra few days; it won’t hurt.

By Love my 4 kids

October 11, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this

Didn’t the Governator of California just recently whine for a big handout from the Federal govt.? It would seem that the govt. schools still have plenty of funds for field trips…

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77734

By NJA

October 14, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Please. You really think these positions need to be cut? More is needed besides the classroom teacher. Can you imagine taking away all of the related arts classes, school counselors and social workers? What would the whiny teachers do? You will have the kids longer than you have them now. Who will you send them to when they are getting on your nerves? What will you complain about then? There are a lot of unnecessary positions at the district office. Those are the positions that need to be cut. School districts are too top heavy.