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Posted by Connie Newbauer Jan 13, 2007 |
I opened up the paper this morning to see that our school district has announced further budget cuts for the coming year. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I have to wonder what our educational system is coming to.
Included in the cuts are - Music instruction, delayed until after the 6th grade; cuts in the Talented and Gifted programs and also cuts in Library services.
This is craziness. I read not too long ago that we spend more per person on education than any other country in the world and our results aren’t even comparable – and I don’t mean in a good way.
It could be that we have a higher cost of living than these countries, but I doubt that is the case, looking at the countries cited. It is more likely that we use the money we are given in a very wasteful, inefficient manner.
Now, our children may pay the price. If this were a budget for the home, we would reconstruct all expenditures to make the most efficient use of our money instead of just chopping at the cost of necessities.
You can only chop so much off of the grocery bill until the children starve – and in this case, the thing they will be starving for is knowledge.