Budget cuts at my school district

So I went to a public school board meeting today for the budget at my school district. The current solution is to cut programs and supplies to balance the budget. A lot of others are saying to raise the taxes by 1% to get some leeway. Either way, some programs are going to get cut. My JROTC class is on the chopping block for this plan and it only costs the school $87,000!!! Thats not a lot of money

The main thing that's sucking all of the money is the current pension plan the union forced through the legislature. It's costing us $12mil a year to keep it afloat and the retired teachers on the plans make more money when they were employed. That's utter bullshit. We need to switch to 401k pensions as fast as possible if we are going to balance the budget and that is going to take a year or 2.

Same thing happen to my school district but then Bill gates and springboard saved us by lending us lots of fucking money and all we had to do was two things 1. Have springboard books forever and ever and have the education system in the district the way it saw fit (so dumb it down alot) and 2. Microsoft computers for everyone.

and thus the school district was once again the bright star of the universe scoring an average of F on everything, which is from what I'm told the national average. which leads me to believe we are fucking screwed.

Boo fucking Hoo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Unified_School_District

Aren't small towns the greatest?

Did you know 50% of students score below the national average. O_0. That sounds like something a political campaign ad would say criticizing the current person in office.

A high school near to many of my associates is in much the same position... except that they never had a JROTC class to begin with.

I heard that Gates started a school some time ago because the education system was in such a bad shape [this was before the housing bubble burst] that he had to train people to do the work that Mircosoft needed.
Also, your school seems to have a strange sort of luck. On one hand, money. On the other hand, they are told where to spend it and where to spend parhaps millions of dollars to come in the future. "A rock and a hard place" as you Americans say.

At least they are honest. Then again, this was probably put in by one of the many angry parents or students or teachers or etc.

I don't know what to say... sucks for you.

Define small.

How can 50% score below the adverage? Wouldn't that change the adverage to reflect their utter failure?

And Obama can do all he wants. If the teacher associate that I have is any indication, alot of the students just stop trying at some point. Nothing to be done about that.
I don't know if there are any studies on this, but I for one, think that it is likely that it would take alot more money and time to encourage a student who has given up to work and get through the system than it does putting a hard-working student through medical college.
That may be callus, but in reality, when they reach the buisness world people ARE LEFT BEHIND.
After high school the only place that they don't leave you behind is in the military.

Its true, all of it is true, i am glad to be out if that shitty fucking school district.

Where are you now?

Pasadena unified school district, its just barely outside the LAUSD's stranglehold.

I have a close associate studying in Pamona at the moment. At California Polytechnical. I don't think that the LAUSD has a hold there... yet.

Your Drug Dealer?

Pretty much it has ruined the education of the school system, according to the teachers here who then go and claim it has also lowered the ability to do more creative things with the class and work them to a higher level, its also made it so getting all Ds is perfectly acceptable to go forward in life heck I propley go out and do more school work if it was required but instead getting sub-par grades means I pass then why should I put forth more effort. The A.P classes have been really scaled back to the point "ROME IS NOT IN SCHOOL ANYMORE WTF WHERE IS THE ROMAN EMPIRE I DON'T KNOW BUT ON THE AGENDA ITS NOT" and its all based on test scores now (which is great because im the best fucking test taker ever) instead of what they learned and do in the class. pretty much it saved us from having huge budget cuts but it's slowly dumping us down to a point where im starting to believe its natural brain washing.

Yet sadly its true.

How in the world can the AP classes be falling? They are on a seperate scale from the the curriculm set up by the states or the Feds. Sounds like you have bad AP teachers. The books for AP are non-negotiable. They NEED TO BE AP. Otherwise, it isn't an AP course.
And yea, it sounds pretty bad.

Actually the A.P teacher is wonderful this year, its just that holy shit we are dumb as nails and the springboard program runs the A.P alot more strict then all the others thus they make more rules.

Perhaps I misspoke but the average for the even the best has been in the 50% while the majority fall way under it, even the people who break this line do so because of curves so its not really that great but hey its over 50% I guess. Uh my math scores I'm getting all that tomorrow even though I know it will be extremely low as I just doodled penises on the majority of the test and bubbled in answers based off of the good old thinking of "fuck it" because I honestly don't know much math, I tried for the first 50 questions but then I realized fuck it not going to pass and I have other shit to study for. Logic.....the fuck is a Logic class we have those?????

The high school that some of my associates attended had an AP World History leave soon after the Spring Finals and all the students had to transfer to the other AP World History teacher. Something about homosexuality accusations from the lower-grade students.

LOL.
He could be refering to the national average. A single school could not have that much of an impact.

Math is difficult. Unlike other subjects, either you are good at it or you aren't.
That reminds me: Schools should have logic classes. It would help SO MUCH.

Having seen the AP test for World History, I found it to be too easy. Just to see what would happen, I took it and got a 5/5.
Not that that means much. I study such for leisure. And besides, as a teacher I once met [from the US as it happens] said, "Your brain has alot of delete buttons, but only one save button." Basically, he was refering to the tendency of people to forget what they don't need to know. Which means tests are only so affective.

The A.P test was a joke, I scored the best without studying and then wrote questions on the back of the test before telling the grader to go fuck them self's. Math is just not my strong suit, but hey I got all my results back tomorrow so this should be fun.