Posted on 02/18/2010 5:38:47 AM PST by La Lydia
Ten unpaid days off is 2 weeks out of 52, or a 4% reduction in salary. But it’s not exactly a reduction in salary for the same work, since the employees will get the time off.
Unfortunately for the state workers, at the end of the year, we might well see that cutting 2 weeks out of the work of every state employee doesn’t hurt services at all, and realise that we have too many employees.
You sound like a loving parent. Ever considered sending your kids to the local community college for specialized education? It won’t be ‘free’ but neither are the best things in life.
A couple more suggestions:
Like the Utah initiative the twelfth grade of High School is really a questionable entrenchment, even for college prep. Give a diploma at eleven (rigorous standards of course), and project option to community college for further ed., which is the default case now anyway.
Illegal immigrant children constitute significant percentages of enrollment in many counties. (As well of course as immense burden on other services.) Remove illegal immigrants from Virginia. There is NOW an existing fully operational front door to immigrate to America from any country.
I doubt it - she was just engaging in typical Richmond politics. But this time it’s going to backfire as she just looks like an idiot.
“The pressholes will crucify him”
They already have. In Virginia, a Democrat governor is considered a good candidate for higher office if he can raise taxes. So naturally the Democrat-owned newspapers in Virginia think that a Republican governor is preparing for higher office by laying off teachers, starving children and freezing old people.
Case in point:
http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/dancasey/2010/02/17/could-mcdonnells-budget-axe-help-presidential-ambitions/
Hey, c’mon, somebody has to do the yardwork, clean the pool etc. while the breadwinner(s) are stuck in traffic! /sarc
“and realise that we have too many employees.”
That’s true until you go to the DMV or want the highway cleared or an AP class in school or a major taught at a university. Many of the people who demand fewer employees are the same people who demand personal service instead of using online resources.
If I were in charge, if you wanted to talk to a human, you would drive to Richmond to do so. Otherwise, everything is done online. If you have trouble, you figure it out yourself.
Janet Howell is just another fiscally irresponsible leftist. Parents are responsible for feeding their children, especially breakfast. How did we ever get away from parental responsibility? What direction is government substitution for parents taking us?
Frankly speaking, parents aways should be responsible for feeding their children. They can provide nutritious and inexpensive lunches like an apple and a sandwich.
Virginia Education Association’s knickers in major twist.
http://www.veanea.org/
In the olden days, my kiddo’s classrooms always had at least one parent volunteer serving as the teacher’s assistant, particularly in the lower grades. I understand that some states no longer allow this unless the “volunteer” meets some ridiculous educational criteria. Ridiculous. There are many ways they can cut costs but it would destroy their fiefdom.
Not being psychic, I can’t really say what she meant.
Funny thing is, my daughter isn’t sure she wants to go to college. She’d doing a biotech program in high school, but her current “goal” is to be a janitor in a CSI facility. Yes, I do think she is joking, but she isn’t highly motivated to find a college yet, despite repeated proddings.
We do have lots of things that happen online. I do all my DMV stuff online, except the rare things you have to show up at the DMV office for.
My kids are doing online summer school. Our county has online summer school gym class. Of course, we have to sign up for all sorts of summer camps because there is 75 hours of physical activity required, but they do hundreds of kids in the program with only a few teachers.
I don’t know if they realise they are proving that they can run specialy advanced education classes without having a teacher for ever 20 kids, by using the extensive computer facilities they have installed in our schools.
But it is something I am pushing, rather than just cutting the advanced education classes altogether. When I was in school 35 years ago, we had self-paced algebra courses. It’s not a new idea, to let the brighter kids operate with a little less supervision, and it would save a lot of money in teacher salaries without cutting the educational opportunities.
OOps, I forgot it’s a 2-year budget, so the 10 days are over 104 weeks, so it’s a 2% cut in pay, which I think was the last general raise. And again, it’s not really a “cut in pay”, in that they get an extra week off each year for the money.
I’m glad to see someone agrees. I just can’t get everyone on-board. I understand it in a corporation. There is a lot of vanity at the exec level. But corporations can lay people off and the government has trouble with that.
“to be a janitor in a CSI facility”
Turn off the TV and see if she still wants to do it.
There are a lot of people working for the state who can retire. They aren’t retiring because of health insurance. If the state could work out a deal, they could clean out the payroll.
At first I thought it was another phase because of that stupid CSI show. But she’s on her third year, and she loves and does well in all the specialty science programs. And she loves dead people. She made both my wife and I take her separately to the “Bodies” exhibit a few years ago, where they showed all those real dead bodies. Yuk.
A few weeks ago she got to sit in with an official FBI lecture on serial killers who use garden tools, and tour the local crime lab facility.
And she doesn’t really watch CSI anymore, now that “Grissom” is gone.
Retirement ans Summers off too.....
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