>Just look at the school budget yourself and you will see that it truly is cut to the bone. The quality of the schools is going to suffer, and it will start next year. If you want to argue about the public information officer, I have to say — it is smart for them to keep someone around to COMMUNICATE with parents and the community. Not long ago, you would have been crying for a lack of transparency and never knowing what’s going on. As a parent who went through the system twice, I can say the current communication is way better than before. Don’t you want to know what’s going on? And don’t say let the secretaries do the communicating — many of them have been fired, and many of the rest can barely communicate themselves (hanging on to their positions thanks to state tenure laws). Have the administrators communicate? We’re almost out of them, too. Theyre firing 6 of them this year and those remaining have to pick up all their responsibilities. Where does it end?
I commend this BOE for cutting over $6 million. I have to ask, on what planet is $6 million in cuts not enough? The line has to be drawn somewhere and I’m glad the BOE cares enough about the schools to stick to it. Their job is to provide the best education possible — not to blindly follow voters who are mad about their property taxes and who haven’t a clue what is required to educate 5700 students of all levels. Sorry, but that’s the fact.
