tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post3095267960192514393..comments2024-03-27T19:57:30.869-04:00Comments on Springfield Vermont News: Superintendents: Governor’s proposed ‘level-funded’ school budget not for FY2018Springfield VT Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845498364686334900noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-55085939476847293002017-02-12T13:46:23.369-05:002017-02-12T13:46:23.369-05:00Yeah, EVERYBODY should get screwed, just like in t...Yeah, EVERYBODY should get screwed, just like in the private sector. Who do these people think they are, educated professionals? They should be on food stamps, like every other minimum wage, private sector worker!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-40258532727213700922017-02-11T11:21:13.460-05:002017-02-11T11:21:13.460-05:00...the problem articulated here, level funding wil......the problem articulated here, level funding will equal loss of 20 positions, indicates that year over year costs are rising at a level equal to the cost of 20 staff positions...the 800 pound gorilla in the room is that it is the rising cost of staff benefits that is creating this problem. The article barely mentions benefits and draws no correlation to the effect that benefits are having on Filet-O-Fugnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-74342563155830266402017-02-10T19:17:19.645-05:002017-02-10T19:17:19.645-05:00Well, at least we agree on one thing; our culture ...Well, at least we agree on one thing; our culture is becoming ever-increasingly intellectually bankrupt! I was fortunate to have grown up during the Great Society years, when intellect and education were valued, and not condemned as "elitist" as they are now. I believe it was Jaime Escalante who said "students will rise to the level of expectation." We need to raise our Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-59348446643539713442017-02-10T16:36:41.495-05:002017-02-10T16:36:41.495-05:00Good points, 9:11, but times now aren't the wa...Good points, 9:11, but times now aren't the way they were even as recently as when you were growing up: Flat wages for the 80% since 1970 means both parents HAVE to work. Parents born with a TV in their house don't believe TV rots the brain (it does, but they think that's normal); good teachers are not pseudo parents (never have been); and because most of society thinks social mediachuck gregorynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-26170989674613197962017-02-10T09:11:10.263-05:002017-02-10T09:11:10.263-05:00Who said 150 kids per class? 20 is probably enough...Who said 150 kids per class? 20 is probably enough. Sure, there was a TV in my house when I was a kid, (black and white, so I'm older than you think) but I was only allowed to watch it one hour per day. TV rots your brain, mom said, and she was right! I was taught to read by the age of 5, so I read a lot of books (you know, the square paper things.) I don't know what to do about bad Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-74797404973187799102017-02-09T15:04:09.741-05:002017-02-09T15:04:09.741-05:006:27, When I was 11, a TV in the home was a rare t...6:27, When I was 11, a TV in the home was a rare thing indeed. When you were 11, there was hardly a newborn in the nation who wasn't being brought home to a TV already there. Today, more than half the kids in America are in households where TV, the Internet, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, etc., are normal, kids whose parents think so too. These parents for the most part don't have a cluechuck gregorynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-42299512163272778322017-02-08T18:27:51.647-05:002017-02-08T18:27:51.647-05:00It's been my experience that many of those who...It's been my experience that many of those who don't care about education are the students! The idea of education as a right has given students AND parents the belief that NO effort on their part is required. Learning is the responsibility of the student; you can't just pour an education into their heads! The motivation to learn must come from parents, you can't just dump them at Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-22983185859521126712017-02-08T17:08:38.104-05:002017-02-08T17:08:38.104-05:00The classes with 3-5 kids are the classes with the...The classes with 3-5 kids are the classes with the luckiest students! The key to effective teaching is the relationship between teacher and student. As soon as you have 15 students in a classroom, quality starts going downhill.<br /><br />But since one of our prime cultural beliefs is, "If he's rich, he must be smart," we've never really valued education very much.chuck gregorynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6627533061631749534.post-44742838919335777062017-02-08T11:50:35.015-05:002017-02-08T11:50:35.015-05:00might not be a bad thing to cut some help,central ...might not be a bad thing to cut some help,central office could lose some,they got pretty big over the years,take a walk thru some of the schools,you'll see some classes with 3-5 kids sitting in it,the worst part would be is the support staff will be the ones to go,happens every time Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com