Edukayshun!!!

http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1026213.html

Shawnee Mission school officials Monday recommended cutting 130 positions and $10.6 million from next year’s budget in response to proposed reductions in state funding...
"No classroom teacher has been told they were being eliminated,” Johnson said.

That's too bad. I know a few "classroom teacher" 's that shouldn't.

Sheryl Siegele, president of the Shawnee Mission chapter of the National Education Association, said students would be affected by the proposed cuts for a lifetime.
“Any time services to our students are cut the decision is not a good one,” she told the board. “There are no right cuts.”

In the interest of full disclosure, since Sherry doesn't tell you this in her illustrative quote above, Sherry and her group, the august and upstanding NEA, lose almost $500 per year when a teacher loses their job. $500 x 130 = $65,000 that the local chapter of the NEA does not have to spend. Moreover, the less the local chapter pulls in, the less the national chapter pulls in. That means no more trips to Vegas for "education conferences."

But I digress. School is no longer about education. It is a babysitter for working parents...and barely an average one. $10,000 per pupil and "Johnny" still can't read or write. Helluva football (insert your favorite sport here) player though.

When we decide that school is REALLY about education and not socialization, then we can talk. Until then, I find the cuts in education to be appropriate and welcome.