Now they are trying to cut out the positions of Assistant Principals from the LA schools!
They have cut back so much on education funding and the schools are a mess as it is.
I will once again go to the very front of the picket lines as I have done both in LA and Washington D.C. on other educational issues in years past.
Just a few facts:
$8,000 each year just to put my kid in preschool for 2 years
having my kid feel the weight of 'no child left behind' and she has to work on certain levels that other kids need so 'everyone passes the grade',
parents and gift money paying just to have a library, and holding bake sales and auctions just to raise money for gym equipment and computers...
and all of this goes into a 501c3 non profit 'parent organization' so the school board can't take the money we raise and put it into their 'school fund' that funds what? pizza ovens?
spending hours volunteering in the classroom and other school needs to supplement the lack of school staff.
Oh yea, and our school is in the TOP 5 OF ALL OF LA SCHOOLS - and it's because we all pitch in.
I'm sorry...where were my tax dollars going again?
I spend a lot of time teaching my daughter about life, esteem, confidence, handling situations, talking her through things for full perspective of understanding (and of course teaching her strategy and negotiation ;) and so on...but what next? Do I become a teacher in a classroom too?
If anyone has a kid in the LAUSD - let me know and I will give you a copy of my opposition letter to use that I sent to every board member in every LA district.
The rate this economy is going, it will cost me a $1M for college when she goes in 10 years.
Ok, I am done bitching. You can say good. ;)
But to the LAUSD, Governor 'Terminator' and to the City of LA... You have my permission to go
oh yea, and to
oh yea and to anyone who posts slamming my thread, I will have to unfortunately say ahead of time
(but only once ;)
to those that actually read this... Thank you.