Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children?
From the NVDaily, word is that the school board is “struggling” to cut an additional $1.4 million out of the school budget. Already on the chopping block:
Among the areas slashed from the spending package in the first $1.4 million are various department budgets, including technology, human resources and maintenance, by 5 percent; the elimination of field trips; a 25 percent reduction in the allocation given to schools for materials and supplies; and a $30,000 decrease to the athletics budget for each campus.
I can already imagine the performance that is being prepared for the public hearing hearing on March 5th. I predict we will see the usual “struggling” teachers (who in their first year are making the same that my grandmother made in her last) who think that their public service needs to be lavishly rewarded and those parents who are afraid their children’s dreams will be shattered if they don’t have the statist structure needed for children to become productive members of society and who aren’t willing to help provide community support (I remember when our debate team got money from the Lion’s club to go to state one year). Of course, the Board of Supervisors is already sending the signal that this sell job may work:
Raley said it would take some creativity to knock out the remaining $1.4 million. School officials are looking at additional revenue sources, he said, and have been told by the Board of Supervisors that it will work with them in making the budget.
The big question: Whose voice will be loudest–the taxpayers or the school lobby? And who will do the better spin job?
