Scary stuff-parents, you need to be paying attention

[sc281]

Parents aren't the only ones paying for children to go to school. Looked at your property taxes lately? I get to pay over 3k a year towards school funding and I don't even have kids.

That's what he was getting at....

[78X]

Sounds like the schools are about to be a dangerous place to be. Glad a live far enough out in the country all these badass kid with nothing to do can't steel my wheel/radio. lol

Steel?

[78X]

How about cutting the football coaches 100k salary and superintendents 250k salary?

[slow06]

Can't spend what we don't have.

I feel for those who are in danger of losing their jobs, I really do, but there seems to be (I'm no expert) a lot of fat in the public school system. It is absolutely important, but it shouldn't be above cuts. Schools have gotten used to spending a certain amount, but it doesn't mean they need all of that money.

I would have cut entitlement programs first but that's just me.

[Leah]

So ... when is it considered a "rainy day" for texas to use its "Rainy Day Fund"

That is EXACTLY what we've been sitting here talking about all morning. If ever there was a time to use it, THIS is it.

[mustangguy289]

So ... when is it considered a "rainy day" for texas to use its "Rainy Day Fund"

[SVT Lurch]

Go private.

They don't pay for shit. Plus, you aren't as protected by rights, etc. as you are in a public school, just FYI.

It's true. My mom has been teaching in private schools for 34 years (same one for 29) and JUST hit $48,000 on base (she is also department head so she gets a small stipend on top of that), but a cousin of mine fresh out of school is making the same $48,000 to teach 6th grade in a Ft. Worth public school. Of course my mom will have a job next year, the cousin may not...

Apparently your district lost funding a long time ago...

LOL!

[Gargamel]

Looks like its time to pay the piper....

I have no comparison, but isn't 44% of an entire state budget kind of high?
What about infrastructure?

Man, if they close all the public schools, parents will actually have to pay for their child's education if they want them to have one. What's next? Gonna make them pay for their own lunches too?

Parents aren't the only ones paying for children to go to school. Looked at your property taxes lately? I get to pay over 3k a year towards school funding and I don't even have kids.

[clevelandkid]

Man, if they close all the public schools, parents will actually have to pay for their child's education if they want them to have one. What's next? Gonna make them pay for their own lunches too?

[bcoop]

This is why I asked which AISD we are talking about. I think high schools do not need that type of stadium.

I agree. They need a safe place to play ball. Not a scale model of The Death Star.

[built2layframe]

Sounds like the schools are about to be a dangerous place to be. Glad a live far enough out in the country all these badass kid with nothing to do can't steel my wheel/radio. lol

[mstng86]

New Stadium in Allen ISD was a cool $65 million or so.

This is why I asked which AISD we are talking about. I think high schools do not need that type of stadium.

[Rick Modena]

i wouldn't worry because obama said the recession is over.

fixed!!!

[bcoop]

New Stadium in Allen ISD was a cool $65 million or so. You should look at the cost of the new Prosper High School. Fuck, go look at the building! It's absurd! Though I understand some of it was private funding, the old high school was only around 5 years old and now sits empty.

Cutting football programs is shooting yourself in the foot. That's a lot of revenue. There has been wasteful spending for decades. This news isn't exactly groundbreaking. Everyone saw it coming. If the govt has proven anything, it's that it can't run anything lean, or efficient.