Whoever made the education budget cuts in ca, GO FVCK YOURSELF...

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fatbaby

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I have learned today that due to the statewide budget cuts in education, we have to cut $9,000,000 worth of programs, staffing, and funding in our school district.

2/5 of the teachers in the district, campus security, lunch ladys, janitors, office administration, deans, coaches, and school administration have received a pink slip...they have a possibility of losing their jobs in the next school year.

Athletics programs will have to face a 75% budget cut, which means the students themselves will have to pay for the bus trips, equipment, maintanence, etc.

Class sizes have increased 20%.

Well frankly, I could care less about the above...but the below really fvcks me up.

School funded programs being cut: Newspaper, Yearbook, Academic Decathalon, Debate, Tri-City Orchestra, Biomedical Research.

Those programs are what makes our school unique. Not many other highschools have weekly newspapers, or an award winning yearbook like ours. Our debate team has won countless awards over the past year. The coach has been a debate coach for over 30 years. Acadec has also won countless awards for our school. Biomedical research only accepts the TOP students in the class and has them intern with professors at universities such as UCLA, USC, and UCSD. Oftentimes, the biomed alumini return to our school with Md's. Tri-city Orchestra plays all over the place and also consists of the most talented students.

These programs are practically the lives of some students. I am fuxored.

Ok, end of my pointless rant.
 
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Ylen13

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i did, p.s as governer of the state i can careless what you think as the group from age 18-25 for the most part don't vote. j/k :)
 
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lupohki

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Well, with all that extra free time, think how much more JAV you could be watching.
 
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PoPPeR

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Nothing grows on tree's in cali...

Anyways. I can understand being mad at giving away what makes your school unique, but at the same time education is priority. I in no way support budget cuts, especially at schools since i'm a senior at a school that supposedly is really well off because we're located in a rich area, and thus gets little funding from the state, and so our school is actaully pretty poor. We have all those things, debate team, mock trial, yearbook, newspaper, etc., but if they HAVE (go figure) to cut something, cut the non-essential ones, teach our generation something
 
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tcsenter

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School funded programs being cut: Newspaper, Yearbook, Academic Decathalon, Debate, Tri-City Orchestra, Biomedical Research.

Those programs are what makes our school unique.
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They also make your school very expensive.

This isn't too difficult to understand, here lemme spell it out:

"There be no money fer them kinda things."

We had to pay-to-play a few times during budget crunches. $150 per kid per sport and that was...16 years ago.

A lot of us whose parents weren't well-off worked to raise the money; painting houses, mowing lawns, working farms, bagging groceries. Its provides a good opportunity to get out of the classroom and experience real life work for a change instead of thinking life is all fun and games and socializing.
 
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yoda291

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Originally posted by: fatbaby
I have learned today that due to the statewide budget cuts in education, we have to cut $9,000,000 worth of programs, staffing, and funding in our school district.

2/5 of the teachers in the district, campus security, lunch ladys, janitors, office administration, deans, coaches, and school administration have received a pink slip...they have a possibility of losing their jobs in the next school year.

Athletics programs will have to face a 75% budget cut, which means the students themselves will have to pay for the bus trips, equipment, maintanence, etc.

Class sizes have increased 20%.

Well frankly, I could care less about the above...but the below really fvcks me up.

School funded programs being cut: Newspaper, Yearbook, Academic Decathalon, Debate, Tri-City Orchestra, Biomedical Research.

Those programs are what makes our school unique. Not many other highschools have weekly newspapers, or an award winning yearbook like ours. Our debate team has won countless awards over the past year. The coach has been a debate coach for over 30 years. Acadec has also won countless awards for our school. Biomedical research only accepts the TOP students in the class and has them intern with professors at universities such as UCLA, USC, and UCSD. Oftentimes, the biomed alumini return to our school with Md's. Tri-city Orchestra plays all over the place and also consists of the most talented students.

These programs are practically the lives of some students. I am fuxored.

Ok, end of my pointless rant.
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Well look at it this way. how many athletics programs are getting cut? How many academic programs are still around? If the answer is 0 for both questions, you can argue that if you're gonna cut the programs for the award winning academics programs, you should just cut the athletics programs equally instead of a unilateral 70 percent cut to save them all. Make a big stink about it at board of ed meetings, bring parents along and you can prolly get most of those programs back at either 70 percent of the budget cuz no one ever thinks to cut the athletics program out. Academic programs are a big deal when college application time comes around and I'd be pissed enough to get them back. Plus, fund raising can prolly make up for the money you lost since they don't cost quite so much. Cry intellectual discrimination. Yes, IT IS THAT big a deal.
 
Kanalua

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Democratic stte legislature, democratic governor...what do you expect...can't pay for eveything, and true to democrat form, take it out on education...
 
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mAdD INDIAN

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That's nothing compared to what has happened and is still happening in Ontario right now.

In the past four years we have had two strikes (one when teachers went on strike for 2 weeks, once when janitors went on strike for three weeks) and a work-to-rule campgain where the teachers just teach the course and do not particpate in extra-curricular stuff such as managing clubs/etc.. and you cannot ask them for help outside of class. Luckily a few of the good teachers ignored that last rule and would help us out during lunch/after school.

A lot of schools have been closed down, teachers fired, and more students in the classroom. I'm not sure how it is right now, but when I was in highshcool last year, most sports teams were cancelled, special education for the special kids was cut back, etc..

Over a billion dollars was cut (or something extragavant like that).

And trust me, you do not want to goto a school when the janitors are on strike. The bathrooms were so dirty and eventually became flooded that I had to goto the nearby mall to use hte washroom.
 
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XCLAN

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Originally posted by: dquan97
Can't your team simply fundraise the $ and pay for the activities yourselves? :gift:
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but when will they have time or$ to buy fake I.D.'s and booz?

:beer::D:beer:
 
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manly

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Originally posted by: Kanalua
Democratic stte legislature, democratic governor...what do you expect...can't pay for eveything, and true to democrat form, take it out on education...
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Troll.

The percentage of cuts in education out of total cuts is much smaller than the weight of education within the total budget. The main disparity is that higher education (esp. the U.C. system) is being spared more than primary education.

I'm sure you'd prefer the GOP plan: cut an additional 7% across the board, then borrow money to plug the HUGE remaining gap (still billions of dollars). As if Davis' proposed cuts aren't already severe enough (that's what is being complained about here), Republicans want to cut another 7% on top of that. However, because some spending is mandated by the federal government or other legislation, a 7% cut would actually mean some programs would have to be completely gutted while others are already at minimal legally-mandated funding levels.

FWIW, the Democrats in state congress want less-severe cuts, but the money simply isn't there.
 
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