Your Kids Are Suffering
Your Kids Are Suffering
California schools have been seeing more and more cuts over the past few years and it is getting worse. These cuts are affecting your child’s current well being and future to close a minor gap in the current budget deficit and take more from your pocket.
A survey was recently taken in the California school districts , county offices and charter schools to see how they are managing there budgets. This survey was returned by 387 of those agencies which represents 26 percent of the statewide enrollment.
Almost half of these surveys indicated that they reduced the number of teachers , increasing the evermore growing class sizes reducing the effectiveness of your child’s education. The current unemployment rate is already at a historical high of 12.6 percent and growing. Laying off all these teachers is leaving them nowhere to go , no jobs for them to obtain , and forcing them to obtain unemployment. This is not completely solving the budget deficit merely shifting it from one category to another at the expense of our children.
They also have reduced and in some cases eliminated school nurses causing the low income families that are already struggling , to seek medical attention for there children from local hospitals that could have otherwise been administered at school costing parents more money that they already do not have. Also forcing some of these nurses and medical staff to obtain unemployment while searching for jobs.
They have also reported they have had to cut art classes , music classes , and electives. These are very important classes for shaping the future of your child which now have to be obtained publicly at the expense of the parent and taking even more from your pocket. Most of the lower and middle class citizens will not be able to afford to obtain the classes for there children hurting not only the kids currently but also hurting our future.
We need to re-evaluate these budget cut decisions to our children’s education , teachers , staff , and our futures and find a solution that will help solve the budget not displace it.
The top five cuts are as follows:
- Building, grounds maintenance: 65 percent
- District administration: 58 percent
- Instructional materials: 58 percent
- Counselors, Nurses, Psychologists:
48 percent - Art, music and drama: 48 percent
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