{"id":7802,"date":"2007-07-01T06:36:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T10:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2007-07-01T06:36:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T10:36:57","slug":"shocking-qotd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7802","title":{"rendered":"SHOCKING QOTD"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a school district facing budget cuts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of the ways the district has tried to address funding shortages is by not filling positions when people retire. Summers said the district is trying to avoid firing teachers, so they just won\u2019t hire anybody they don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would love to have more, but we have to live within the budget,\u201d Summers said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re not hiring folks they don’t need? What is the (education) world coming to?! As usual, IAATM.<\/p>\n

In the just-concluded school year the district lost 49 students which represent more than $280,000 based on the level of funding the state gave the district per student in the last school year. That money did not come out of the district\u2019s budget; it merely represents how valuable each student is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, each student is valuable. But only for how much money they bring in. Does that mean a special needs student, who might cost<\/i> the district more than she brings in, is worthless and should be discarded? Seems to follow.<\/p>\n

She added that the district\u2019s budget is about 35 percent local and 65 percent state funds, and more than half of the budget is spent directly on students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I call “Bullshit!” School districts typically spend 75% of their budgets on salaries. I don’t think teacher salaries should be described as money being “spent directly on students.”<\/p>\n

I hope this sentence wasn’t written by a graduate of the district:<\/p>\n

At the high school level the district has developed a new foundations class in an effort to try and better prepare students for success and put them in position to go where they want after leaving the RE-1 district, and it\u2019s also implemented the Reading Recovery program, which identifies weak readers in the first grade and tries to correct problems early, with the idea that better readers will be better students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Try and”? Geez!<\/p>\n

But, finally, some good news at the end:<\/p>\n

An interesting sidenote is that the number of home-school students in the RE-1 district has nearly doubled between the fall of 2001 and 2005. According to the state of Colorado, there were 33 home-schooled students within the RE-1 district in fall 2001 compared to 75 in fall 2005. Summers said she doesn\u2019t have an answer as to why that number has gone up. In a March interview, she said that perhaps people home school because they want to spend more time with their kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps. Or perhaps parents want their kids to be valued for who they are and not for how much money they bring in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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