Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Bristol Schools' Worst Budget Scenario: 71 Teacher Layoffs------ WHY NOT IN NEW BRITAIN'S--- BOE?-- Courant.com

Bristol Schools' Worst Budget Scenario: 71 Teacher Layoffs -- Courant.com
Posted by Frank Smith at 4.2.09

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

If Bristol can layoff 71, then we should be able to dump at least 150 and not even miss them.

February 4, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Anonymous said...

That is not fair to the teachers. Budget issues stretch alot further.
We need teachers for our students and teacher to student ratios that are balanced. When you look at the school budget you will find alot of "Pork Fat" just like the proposed stimulas plan before our congress. During these tough economic times we need to keep focus on the primary goal, teaching our children. Cutbacks will need to come from extra-curricular programs, special interests, large administrative salaries and employee benefits. Union representatives should be prepared to have some give. The budget will need to be treated like that in the private sector
with hiring freezes, no salary increases and or additional employee contributions to health care costs etc.

February 4, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...

Your point is well taken regarding salary freezes, but I bet if you check, the teachers will be due for a big fat pay raise guaranteed to them in their lucrative contract. I think we can afford to layoff a bunch of them and not have an impact on teacher student ratios. Did you know that many classes have as few as 6 students for on $85,000 a year teacher????

February 4, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Anonymous said...

I was just watching a Democratic Senator describing how the leadership of the party doesn't care what is in the wasteful spending bill, they just want it passed regardless of what is in it he described how Congressmen don't read the bill and don't care what is in it, the Senator said they are told how to vote and that they are TREATED LIKE MUSHROOMS. The immediate picture I got in my mind was the 13 mushrooms sitting around the New Britain Council table!

February 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Six students to one teacher in New Britain? I have never witnessed this. What school, what age, special needs, explain?

Yes, salary freeze. It goes something like this "This year everyone will need to do his/her part in order to avoid lay-offs and thus there will be no merit increases this year so you and your
fellow co-workers can remain employed". The Union? they can
chew on it all day long or close up
shop themselves and go look for jobs in the private sector. You have a contract, oh yea it's only
worth the paper it's printed on.

February 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Anonymous said...

A Concerned Parent and Taxpayer said:

School is a place where children are to learn. This of course, is best done by those who are qualified to do so, teachers.

School isn’t a place for free food. Food is the responsibility of the parents to supply.

School isn’t a place for free medical treatment. Again this is the responsibility of the parents to supply. If a child is ill, send them to the Nurses Office and have a parent pick the child up.

School isn’t a place for free childcare/babysitting. This is the responsibility of the parents to supply.

School isn’t a place for free entertainment. We pay a fair salary to teachers and it’s shameful and hypocritical for a teacher to just pop in a DVD so children are kept occupied when any teacher, psychologist or doctor will inform you that children get much too much screen time and emphatically encourage parents to limit and monitor the quantity and quality of screen time.

A teacher’s class ought to be at a manageable size. Any class size of fewer than 15 should not be permitted. Likewise, a class size grater than 20 students shouldn’t be permitted either.

Parents should send their children to school, fed and in good health ready and able to learn. Parents who don’t do this, especially on a daily basis should be considered “negligent” and reported to the proper authorities. It is wrong to make everyone pay because of negligent parents.

If cuts are made to the school budget, the first cuts to be made should be to those programs which have nothing to do with learning.

Lastly, since I’m dreaming, the school budget should be approved or disapproved based on “line items”. The current State laws which prohibit this must change!!!

February 4, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Anonymous said...

""""Did you know that many classes have as few as 6 students for on $85,000 a year teacher????"""

I doubt that statistic.

However I do beleive that the current problems can be fixed simply by using an good old working class American idea, accountability!!! Lack of accountability contributes to an inefficient use of resources and taxpayer dollars. Offer "choice" to parents and students. Vouchers that could be used at other public or private schools. Schools that lose money would close. Schools that perform would thrive eliminating the dead weight from the school system. The voucher system will create results that can be emulated by the worst performing schools.

February 4, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Anonymous said...

School vouchers is what we need. Maybe these overpaid, under worked union slobs would care a little bit about what kind of education your children are getting if they had to compete with the private schools for students. The only way they might start giving a damn is if some of them were at risk of losing their jobs to private school teachers, and then only the younger untenured ones might start caring a little because the older ones that are protected by the union would still have a "don't give a damn attitude."

VOUCHERS, VOUCHERS, VOUCHERS!

February 4, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Anonymous said...

A teacher’s class ought to be at a manageable size. Any class size of fewer than 15 should not be permitted. Likewise, a class size grater than 20 students shouldn’t be permitted either.

WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL IN A TOWN NOT FAR FROM HERE, THE CLASSES IN MY TOWN WERE USUALLY 40 STUDENTS TO A ROOM. Have students become dumber or teachers become lazier????

February 4, 2009 at 11:57 PM

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