Monday, January 26, 2009

Educational Budget Cuts

The state is in debt, lets cut education!!!!
I have two theories on educational budget cuts. A list of cuts that will be made to save money...One is what I believe is going to happen and two is what I think should happen although I know it never will.
Cuts- Before and afterschool homework and supplemental reading help- PAC, after school day care- Test score committees, yes, all the tests that are mandated three times a year, that decide whether or not schools receive funding, oh, those scores don't matter anymore because there is no one to input the test scores into the overall data base.- teachers already amazingly high salary is to be cut, while adding up to 50 students per classroom, as the size limit is no longer- classroom spending is gone- and this is just the beginning.
My theories-
1. Arizona is going to end up with privitized education that, surprise surprise, educates that wealthy that can afford to pay for private schools, while public schools are going to be third world where EVERY child is left behind.
2. Arizona needs to consolidate its school districts into three major areas. Tucson, Phoenix, and Flagstaff. This way teachers pay could be equalized, support staff would not be cut, and appoint maybe 5 superintendants and fire all the rest. Their pay would be enough to fund quite a bit of current debt. Each school could continue to run the way it is, but instead of having a high paid person in charge of a school district with three schools, four teachers could keep their jobs and provide education to children in a reasonable class size.
But only if I ruled the world....

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