Scary stuff-parents, you need to be paying attention

[bcoop]

This is why I asked which AISD we are talking about. I think high schools do not need that type of stadium.

I agree. They need a safe place to play ball. Not a scale model of The Death Star.

[clevelandkid]

Man, if they close all the public schools, parents will actually have to pay for their child's education if they want them to have one. What's next? Gonna make them pay for their own lunches too?

[talisman]

Man, if they close all the public schools, parents will actually have to pay for their child's education if they want them to have one. What's next? Gonna make them pay for their own lunches too?

Parents aren't the only ones paying for children to go to school. Looked at your property taxes lately? I get to pay over 3k a year towards school funding and I don't even have kids.

[Gargamel]

Looks like its time to pay the piper....

I have no comparison, but isn't 44% of an entire state budget kind of high?
What about infrastructure?

[SVT Lurch]

Go private.

They don't pay for shit. Plus, you aren't as protected by rights, etc. as you are in a public school, just FYI.

It's true. My mom has been teaching in private schools for 34 years (same one for 29) and JUST hit $48,000 on base (she is also department head so she gets a small stipend on top of that), but a cousin of mine fresh out of school is making the same $48,000 to teach 6th grade in a Ft. Worth public school. Of course my mom will have a job next year, the cousin may not...

Apparently your district lost funding a long time ago...

LOL!

[mustangguy289]

So ... when is it considered a "rainy day" for texas to use its "Rainy Day Fund"

[Leah]

So ... when is it considered a "rainy day" for texas to use its "Rainy Day Fund"

That is EXACTLY what we've been sitting here talking about all morning. If ever there was a time to use it, THIS is it.

[slow06]

Can't spend what we don't have.

I feel for those who are in danger of losing their jobs, I really do, but there seems to be (I'm no expert) a lot of fat in the public school system. It is absolutely important, but it shouldn't be above cuts. Schools have gotten used to spending a certain amount, but it doesn't mean they need all of that money.

I would have cut entitlement programs first but that's just me.

[78X]

How about cutting the football coaches 100k salary and superintendents 250k salary?

[78X]

Sounds like the schools are about to be a dangerous place to be. Glad a live far enough out in the country all these badass kid with nothing to do can't steel my wheel/radio. lol

Steel?

[sc281]

Parents aren't the only ones paying for children to go to school. Looked at your property taxes lately? I get to pay over 3k a year towards school funding and I don't even have kids.

That's what he was getting at....

[03trubluGT]

I was surprised when my home owner's taxes went from $5,600 to $4,900. I didn't look at the breakdown, but the local ISD is probably getting about $450 less from me this past year.

Take into consideration that every home paid less, that's a loot of moolah.

[Leah]

How about cutting the football coaches 100k salary and superintendents 250k salary?

Amen.

I was surprised when my home owner's taxes went from $5,600 to $4,900. I didn't look at the breakdown, but the local ISD is probably getting about $450 less from me this past year.

Take into consideration that every home paid less, that's a loot of moolah.

We paid less, too. I even commented to Craig about how we paid LESS in taxes this year-WTF??

[Zfan]

Attendance Officer's, Safe and drug free program? WTF, if kids do not attend, kick there lazy butts out! Parents should be attending to the drug problems, it's their kids not the schools!

[sc281]

That is EXACTLY what we've been sitting here talking about all morning. If ever there was a time to use it, THIS is it.

No, it isn't.

Throwing more money at a failing educational system hasn't magically fixed it in the years/decades running up to this, so it stands to reason that it will not work this time around.


Don't tell me public school is worth a $hit either. I went to a "Blue Ribbon" nationally recgonized school, and passed without ever doing a single homework assignment because the tests were so friggin easy to ace.

It makes me sick to my stomach to pay my property taxes knowing how wasted the money is in public schools.

This isn't to knock you. From what I understand you are a teacher for the handicapped kids, and that is admirable and would be welcomed at any private school; but just like a failed company going under, good people get hurt.


Such is life. I'm afraid.