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Posted on 01/17/2012 6:51:34 PM PST by EBH
As of Tuesday, programs like elementary music, art and physical education are gone and libraries are closed.
School days are shortened to just 5 1/2 hours -- leaving kids less time for instruction, and working parents scrambling.
"What are kids gonna do with that big window of time when their parents are still working and all that idle time that they still have, to do God knows what?" parent Jeff Bodziony said.
Hot school lunches are also thing of the past.
In fact, lunch is a thing of the past.
Students used to have lunch in the noon hour.
Instead they are now sent home at 1:15 p.m.
Kids who qualify for free lunches were sent home Tuesday with a bologna sandwich, an apple and a pickle.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox8.com ...
This was a stupid “sound bite” story. I’m ashamed that Fox ran with it as is.
Question: What are all the teachers going to do with all that free time? Find another parttime job? In Ohio?
Kids belong in school. Govt employees should pay more into their pension and health insurance plans, otherwise, nobody is going to get anything in the long run. The money AIN’T there after decades of Democrats corruption, exorbitant spending, and fiscal mismanagement.
Bologna sandwich, pickle and an apple. That’s what I used to east in elementary and junior high school (minus the pickle). Today I had a turkey sandwich for lunch (no breakfast). I want my apple!
Higher property assessments, more money for teacher/admin salaries, more union dues, more Dem campaign contributions...
Holy crap!! I’d say I’m in the wrong business but I couldn’t put with kids for even 185 days a year:-)
Considering Cleveland has some 10,000 empty homes from what I remember reading. Euclid isn’t doing well at all, and I can imagine its not to good for a lot of the other suburbs right on Cleveland’s boarder. I guess things will start spreading further out from the center at this point and this story sure is giving rise to that belief. Have family in the area, and trying to sell a house is almost impossible. It is going to get whole lot worse.
Whether it was a total fiction story I do not know, but I remember reading of little schoolhouses where each student would bring something like a potato or carrot or hunk of salt beef and the teacher would cook up a stew in a large caldron for the students to eat later in the day.
What IS that person? Superintendent of the county schools?
Same problem in EVERY state that has Union extortion going on.
Hot school lunches are also thing of the past.
In fact, lunch is a thing of the past.
But
Linda Reid, was paid $182,802
You Garfield Heights parents are being played the fool.
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I didn't spend 5 1/2 hours a day homeschooling my three kids all put together.
And the parents are blaming the *voters*?!?!
Does that mean that the parents AREN'T the voters????
Then whose fault is that?
Idiots. If they don't like the way the education in their district is going, it's up to THEM to do something about it.
The horrors......
We have this option called Cyber School in SW Pennsylvania for kids who are even moderately motivated. One of the local education nazis and Democrat party hacks took Rick Santorum to task for using it for his kids.
That’s a good idea actually. A liberal take on fairness. When our school needed money, we just had fundraisers such as carnivals, newspaper/can drives or bingo nights where each parent had to be involved in the fundraising activities or their kid doesn’t get squat. No labor cost involved as long as the parents and kids join in together.
I live in Ohio and these people have no one to blame but themselves for voting against Issue 2. Kasich was trying to limit the union influence, and the voters would have none of it. Now, the repercussions begin. However,most people are too ignorant to understand what happened or why.
what a boon for them....even less time to have to teach...maybe someday we'll get them to work just 2 days a week and still pay them the same....
I actually think these cutbacks are good...
realize people that until you get the teachers unionists undercontrol, the budget for schools will just keep ballooning...
lets cut all the extras....and lets hope that the teachers kids get everything at their schools cut too....
Where is the evidence that institutional schooling does any good? Really, it's a serious question.
For years now, I have been asking “educators” to show me the studies that prove that what children learn is from the classroom and NOT from the massive afterschooling done by parents, the child himself, private tutoring, and help from family and friends. Never has any teacher provided a link.
A Stanford professor of education in response to an e-mail to an article from another site did write to me and admitted that these studies have never been done.
So.....We spend up to $25,000 per kid per year ( in some states) and no one even knows if our nation's socialist schools even teach anything at all. Really!
My own anecdotal observation is that academically successful children ( whether home or institutionally schooled) spend the same amount of time in formal studies IN THE HOME. Their families share similar home habits, control friends, effectively discipline, and strictly monitor electronics. Children who are not academically successful ( home or institutionally schooled) come from families who do not share these habits and values.
My conclusion:
If every government school in this nation closed tomorrow, the **same** children who are getting an education today would get one tomorrow. Those who aren't getting an education today still wouldn't be getting one tomorrow.
Until all government schooling in this nation is shut down permanently and replaced with a private system, the problems will continue.
Government schools are socialist schools. They are the very definition of socialism. Socialism can NOT be fixed.
My surmise is that those parents see the schools as a baby sitting service. Hours being cut from school schedules mean more time a parent must take care of their children.
The Horror!
In my county 80% of the county budget goes to our socialist system of schools. For the state, 50% of the budget is for our socialist schools. It is likely more than that since once a teacher is retired their pension and benefits are merely counted as a government retirement expense and not specifically as a school expense (even though it is).
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