Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  kitsap_reader writes:
in response to shameless:  Just lay off 50 teachers and all will
be well. The district is fat and needs some austerity. 80% of it
is personnel, so cut the personnel. This isn't rocket science.
That may make the Superintendent "unpopular", but it is his job
to balance the budget. Outside funding is dropping because your
enrollment is dropping, yet you are holding the same amount of
personnel. Whatever the percentage in aid drops, you need to cut
that percentage of teachers and consolidate classes.  It would
be fine to lay off teachers, if only we could carefully select
the teachers to lay off. Maybe the incompetent ones. You know
the teachers I mean. The teachers who don't do their jobs well.
The last ones in the door in the morning and the first to leave
the building in the afternoon. The ones who went into teaching
because they thought it would be easy, and now feel trapped in a
job they don't love. The ones who get upset over every petty
litt