October 26th, 2009 12:20pm
Deep cuts planned. Your thoughts?
by Extra.Credit
Santa Rosa City Schools is asking for community comment on its massive list of potential cuts. To air your opinion(s), go to the link below and click on the heading for a specific cut and it will pull up an email comment form.
http://www.srcs.k12.ca.us/news/PotentialReductions.pdf
The board meets Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Santa Rosa City Council Chambers. With the list of potential cuts including closing schools, cutting music and art from elementary schools, increasing class size, laying off librarians, cutting back on athletic support, shortening the school year… a crowd is expected.
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How about they start by eliminating completely useless and unnecessary administrators at the district office? About $80,000 could be saved by firing the Principal On Special Assignment.
by Principal On Special Assignment
If the city has to do cut backs the schools should be left alone. Cut back the transit busses, cut back the public pools, cut back some other public stuff but don’t cut back on our schools. Leave it alone. I mean hell why do our kids need to suffer any more than they already have? Our kids will not do well in school if they get thier P.E. classes, thier Art Classes or anyother electives taken away. All work and no play is not a good recipe for sucess. Leave our kids alone!
by bme
I think that everything that students need should not be cut. I am sure that the libraries should not be cut because that is something very important to education, that is where, we the students, get our educational information from. Art and music are stuff that makes a good student,IT IS IMPORTANT, they are NOT electives, THEY ARE IMPORTANT.Paying extra money to the extra people that are not teaching or helping students on school time should be fired. That money HAS to be used on real stuff for,us, the students that are going to be the future and not make other people rich by not giving full eduaction to ,us, the students. YES, THERE OTHER WAYS TO SAVE MONEY THEN TO CUT STUFF FROM OUR SCHOOLS. EVERYTHING IN OUR SCHEDUEL IS EDUCATIONAL AND NONE SHOULD BE CUT.
by claudia ortiz
Cut all the “hand holding” courses at the high schools–they actually teach classes on “don’t loiter in the hallways during passing period and get to your class” and “attend school everyday.” I forget the name of these “classes” but get rid of them, they are not educationally valid. The savings of legions of faculty teaching kids how to blow their noses would be significant.
So, Claudia…NO not “everything in our schedule is educational” in the least!!
by observing
Why don’t we look at why SR School District is sitting on 25 million dollars as a rainy day fund instead of cutting necessary academic programs. This is a district that can not afford these deep cuts coming almost exclusively at the expense of the classroom and the students. If this is a rainy day fund then isn’t this the torrential downpour that these monies are for? Being frugal and overly cautious is a wonderful trait for accountants but seriously harmful to students and our future when it steps over the line of being cautious to being miserly.
We can not afford to continue to cut our children and our future. If you have the money then use the money and stop making our children the victims of over prudent accounting practices.
by RogerRamJet
Close district office and all schools from July 1 to August 1.
by Me
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Lets close all schools and distict office and S.C.O.E. offices for 30 days in the summer.
by Me