Re: What Would You Cut to Help Trim Budgets of Public Schools?
Anonymous User August 25, 2009 at 11:47am
Gladewater ISD has "made changes" to their transportation department "due to the economy". I have children that are students at the Middle School and they are leaving the house 40 minutes earlier, and getting home 20 minutes later this year, because of these changes. I was also going to have a child in Pre-K, however, I found out 3 days before school started that they no longer have the mid-day bus for the Pre-K students. I am going back to school this year myself, and all of these changes have affected my schedule, I now have to pay more for my youngest child to go to daycare for the entire day, rather than paying for before and after school care. So I have figured out that it boils down to this, not only do I have to get the supplies that my child will actually use during the school year, I have to get extra items on that list that the teacher will use (and I'm assuming students who's parents can't afford supplies). I also have to buy school uniforms for all of my kids (the school gives you a Lands End catalog... who can afford that? I‘m perfectly fine with Wally World, but even they are getting ridiculous), and I pay property taxes for the schools, and the city, and the county, and the community college in the area, and I also pay sales tax on many other items I purchase. So this begs the question, "Why don't I keep my kids home and home school them myself?" They can wear their pajama's for all I care, I can give them one pencil, not 50 per kid, one pen, not 10 per kid, and one notebook, not 1 or 2 per class and it will cost me nothing in gas to get them to class. What I want to know is when the state gives the school money per child in attendance, why am I having to come up with so much and if they’re looking to “make cuts” try making cuts for all of us parents. Like school uniforms(I know, I know less violence because they all look the same, yeah right.) or how about I send my kid with one notebook and folder and a couple pencils like when I was going to school. I think this worked well enough for all of us 30 somethings, don’t you? I wonder what else they’re gonna come up with “due to the economy”.
Anonymous User August 25, 2009
at 11:47am
Gladewater ISD has "made changes" to their transportation department "due to the economy". I have children that are students at the Middle School and they are leaving the house 40 minutes earlier, and getting home 20 minutes later this year, because of these changes. I was also going to have a child in Pre-K, however, I found out 3 days before school started that they no longer have the mid-day bus for the Pre-K students. I am going back to school this year myself, and all of these changes have affected my schedule, I now have to pay more for my youngest child to go to daycare for the entire day, rather than paying for before and after school care. So I have figured out that it boils down to this, not only do I have to get the supplies that my child will actually use during the school year, I have to get extra items on that list that the teacher will use (and I'm assuming students who's parents can't afford supplies). I also have to buy school uniforms for all of my kids (the school gives you a Lands End catalog... who can afford that? I‘m perfectly fine with Wally World, but even they are getting ridiculous), and I pay property taxes for the schools, and the city, and the county, and the community college in the area, and I also pay sales tax on many other items I purchase. So this begs the question, "Why don't I keep my kids home and home school them myself?" They can wear their pajama's for all I care, I can give them one pencil, not 50 per kid, one pen, not 10 per kid, and one notebook, not 1 or 2 per class and it will cost me nothing in gas to get them to class. What I want to know is when the state gives the school money per child in attendance, why am I having to come up with so much and if they’re looking to “make cuts” try making cuts for all of us parents. Like school uniforms(I know, I know less violence because they all look the same, yeah right.) or how about I send my kid with one notebook and folder and a couple pencils like when I was going to school. I think this worked well enough for all of us 30 somethings, don’t you? I wonder what else they’re gonna come up with “due to the economy”.