After pondering today's conversation about the monetary roundabout we seem to be on regarding where money is spent and where it is not spent -- man, I feel that Alice's little adventure had nothing on where we are located. That it benefits someone to keep their child/student/young adult under the special services umbrella -- simply for a regular check -- well, the system needs a political overhaul/re-analysis/enema! This not only is wrong for the very obvious reasons -- but it hurts how people look at Special Services as a whole. This, of course, hurts the kids who truly need and benefit from these services. This is all akin to the military paying $12,000.00 for a latrine.
Red tape begets red tape begets redder tape...and onward we spiral into the abyss...
Ron
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
-Alice
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Money. I agree. Maybe we need time to shut everything down and balancing the books. We need to look at how we spend every dollar at every level and hold it accountable. Perhaps there is more money...
I wonder if that would work. School comittee shuts everything down. A panel is gathered made up of teachers/ parents and the like and determines how every dollar is being spent. Maybe from that we determine our priorities. We are so quick to look at teacher salaries and benefits because it is the major cost to all districts--understandable. But isn't that akin to me being over budget in my own home and saying "okay, we need to look at our spending. Let's start with my mortgage..." Some things I need to accept and then I adjust all my other spending habits. If, after I make all the judgments on my extraneous spending, I still cannot balance, then I look at other places.
I don't know. I do know that we are not holding each other accountable for every dollar we spend.
What of school districts offered incentives for schools coming under budget?
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