http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008734815_webgovernorstimulus11.html

Chris must not pay attention to the National Scene?
Stimulus Package has lots of money for education.

No, I'm not referring to DanS as Gov. Green

As of the 2007-2008 school year the Seattle school district had a budget of $561 million dollars to service 46,000 students, at a cost of $12,195 per student.

The McCleary school budget for the same year was about 2.4 Million dollars for 255 students, at a cost of $9,411 per student.

We are running at a break even level in McCleary due to good planning and budgeting. We are also not having to cut any programs. The loss of the levy equalization dollars in Gregwhore's cost cutting scheme was offset by increasing enrollment this year, unlike almost every other district in GH county. Instead of consolidating districts, she needs to hold districts to task for overspending. Kind of like asking the fox to watch over the henhouse, but she sure as sh!t is no fox. I really like how she spent our surplus. What a bitch.

Consolidating efficient small school districts into larger inefficient ones is not the answer. I'd personally kick her in the nuts, if she had any.

God damned asshattery! Fawk all you fawkers who voted this bitch in.

Respectfully signed,

Dogfish
President of the McCleary School Board.

When I was a Senior in High School, I used to get out of school two hours early. The Shelton School District asked some Seniors with early-out if they'd be interested in tutoring failing underclassmen, rather than take their early out, for 10 bucks a day.

I figured ten bones a day was party money for the weekend, so I signed up.

After the first month of tutoring the misguided little urchins, I had their grade point averages up by an average of two full points. So all the 'F' averages had been improved to 'C' averages..........for 50 bucks a week.

The kids had done such a good job dragging their grades out of the dumpster, that on one sunny Friday, I let them leave from class 10 minutes early. And for that, they let me go.

So I laughed, and said "Fine........go back to spending 6-8K on year on failing students.........at least they'll be failing in class for that extra 10 minutes." And that's when I knew our schools would ALWAYS be failures.........because the people in charge of them are so stuck in their thinking that the changes required to make schools a success will NEVER be made. If you're not a drone who listens to and accepts the garbage that rains down from the administration above, they'll can you regardless of the results you attain.

So, whiile I generally vote in favor of school levies, I realize that money will probably accomplish nothing as long as the same donkeys are still making the decisions.

Well put Dan. While trying hard not to sound like my grandfather, when I went to school we had 1 superintendant for the whole school (grade,middle,high) with a principle for each. They all used the same office and staff. Now you have a super. with staff, vice super. with staff,principle with staff,vice principle with staff etc. And we wonder why it costs so much more to operate. I almost forgot, the Super. and principles also taught classes and filled in for sick teachers.

+1

While consolidating schools may be good financially for the state they will find some way to spend whatever they would have saved . Like on legislation that will give financial aid for Illigal Immigrants to go to college.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008735303_tuition12m.html

I have to agree with blue water on this one.. having worked in education for 26 years, (not as a teacher) I have seen first hand that teachers are underpaid and over worked... also being expected to do the job of parenting that this latest
generation of parents will not or cannot do. Yea I hear some grumbling about
teachers only have to work 9 months out of the year, but believe me they work all year long.. The hoops they have to jump through, and the standards they are held to make teaching one of the most thankless jobs you can imagine.Once again , I was not a teacher, but saw first hand how demanding their job is.Add to that a thankless
unknowing generation of people that hold firm to the belief that "my Johnny or My Susie" are not the problem, teachers are. Chriminy... when are folks going to wake up and start thanking teachers for doing the job that they( with exceptions) are incabable of doing themselves? As I see it the problem with public education is as other have pointed out, ADMINISTRATION! our public schools are so top heavy with administration, i.e super, vice super, asst to the super, dept heads and their staff,
layers upon layers of people who know nothing of the classroom environment, but when students shine they are the first to step up and claim the glory that is truly due to the teachers themselves. Ok so I rambled on a bit but I think you get what I was trying to point out.

I have the utmost respect for teachers, as my Dad was one for 30 years.

Not all school districts are the same, but Tatonka, you are correct in that some are so top heavy as to create a mini (or maxi) bureaucracy of and onto itself. Paying school board members is a waste of funds, especially if they hold additional day jobs and are just there for meetings. We work for free.

Thankfully for us we have a number of people who are talented at grant writing, and they have contacts within the State Gov. so that we are able to get old computers on a regular basis. Swap out some memory and upgrade teh hard drive and for $100 we have a computer perfectly good for use in the school.

I just wish they would fund schools as required by the State Constitution.

Soon to be ex wife and her equally dimwitted brother voted for her simply because they went to school with her husband, and lived on the same block.. how wacked is that?!!!!

I didn't vote for Rossi either..Write In