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Originally posted by DeltAlum
Ever been a teacher, Rudey?
My wife taught high school for a few years and worked her butt off, about 12 hrs. a day during the week and four or five hours on each weekend day between lesson plans and grading papers, etc.
Her father was on a school board, and her grandfather on the state school board.
The only complaint I ever heard from them about this was when the Federal or State government mandated programs, but gave them no funds to implement them.
If you are lucky and your district is able to pass bond issues, etc., that's not so bad, but when you're in a poor district that votes all of those issues down -- educations suffers.
It makes zero sense to me to punish a school that is below standards (whatever "standards" are) by taking away it's funds. That's counterproductive in the worst way. It just makes the school worse. It also punishes the good students in those schools.
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very well said! my mom is a teacher and she works incredibly long hours to guarantee her student's success