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butchcee Prowler Junkie Posts: 7476 |
posted 06-16-2004 10:23 AM
Boy, am I pissed. Got a re-vote on the school budget tomorrow. The first one failed by only 8 votes. With a letter sent out by the school crying the blues and threatening to cut programs and teachers,I'm sure it will pass on the second vote. We have 2300 kids in our district and the proposal is for a 7.19% increase for a total of $42,856,187. That's about $18,800 per kid not including Fed help. We pay for busing to to local religious schools and the part time teachers still get health benefits. Time to get out of Dodge.  I've had it with NY. |
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ETMIDZT Prowler Junkie Posts: 2278 |
posted 06-16-2004 10:35 AM
Ouch! That's a Hell've increase! |
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DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 06-16-2004 10:55 AM
Al,I can certainly understand your frustrations....trust me not much better here! ------------------ |
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Bob Miller Prowler Junkie Posts: 4576 |
posted 06-16-2004 11:08 AM
I'd be upset too. Don't move to Connecticut; they have similar problems. I agree that teachers deserve good compensation, but I also think there needs to be a system of measuring their performance. Don't you guys have public hearing on these budgets? I'd love to hear the justification for funding the buses for religious schools and for granting health benefits to part-time teachers. Does that include substitute teachers? |
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Randy Cobb Prowler Junkie Posts: 4070 |
posted 06-16-2004 11:59 AM
The cost per student in our county here in NC is $6,200. Education administrators and politicians are constantly complaining that they are under-funded and quote NEA stats that show NC is #36 out of 50 states on primary education. I don't have the answer to better educated kids, but I personally don't think throwing money at the issue is the answer. I took my son and a friend of his to hockey camp this morning and the friend told us that he was in a grade lower than my son even though he was the same age. He said that after moving here (the state will go unnamed so as not to anger anyone from that state) he was evaluted and had not learned the required info to enter the 6th grade in NC and had to repeat the 5th grade. His family had moved here from a state that in in the top 10 in spending per student and he had a B avg. in his prior school system. My kids are in a charter school. Publicly financed, but privately run. I don't know if what we as a family are doing is the answer either, but it seems to be working. ------------------ |
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CTProwler Prowler Junkie Posts: 3915 |
posted 06-16-2004 04:07 PM
My schools Taxes are $70,000000. 30000 people. another 20 mill for town roads etc. People move here because its one of the best programs in the state, and country for that matter. It just increases real estate values. I didn't have any kids my first 24 yrs of marriage. Now I have a few step kids who benefit!   ------------------ |
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