http://www.kidglue.com/2009/10/26/schools-going-to-a-four-day-school-week/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:28:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.kidglue.com/2009/10/26/schools-going-to-a-four-day-school-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3081 Alexis Goff Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:27:20 +0000 http://www.kidglue.com/?p=14009#comment-3081 Thank you for writing about this. I hope more people read it and become aware just how truly desperate our schools systems are. My husband is a teacher and he's been dealing with this issue all year. Budget cuts at the end of last year cut teachers who had only been working there a year. More budget cuts are proposed including a 4 day work week. Also proposed are cutting some extracurriculars (sports and after school programs), as well as cutting some teachers (Fine Arts and Coaches). Next year they are talking about a decrease in salary for all the teachers. To all of the people who claim: "Teachers get paid enough and they have summers off." Let me just say this, we can't barely live off of my husband's salary, and those summers are generally used up in trying to get the classes necessary so that they can keep or renew their teaching licenses. Those classes are not paid for by the district or school, they are paid out of pocket. So, really? Do teachers get paid enough for teaching our children and helping them to achieve their full potential? Budget cuts are only going to make this worse as good teachers lose their jobs or are forced to find alternate employment because they can't afford to feed their families; when they can no longer afford to be a teacher. A way to fix this: tell law makers to stop cutting education and be prepared for a tax increase to help pay for it. It's the only way. Thank you for writing about this. I hope more people read it and become aware just how truly desperate our schools systems are. My husband is a teacher and he’s been dealing with this issue all year. Budget cuts at the end of last year cut teachers who had only been working there a year. More budget cuts are proposed including a 4 day work week. Also proposed are cutting some extracurriculars (sports and after school programs), as well as cutting some teachers (Fine Arts and Coaches). Next year they are talking about a decrease in salary for all the teachers. To all of the people who claim: “Teachers get paid enough and they have summers off.” Let me just say this, we can’t barely live off of my husband’s salary, and those summers are generally used up in trying to get the classes necessary so that they can keep or renew their teaching licenses. Those classes are not paid for by the district or school, they are paid out of pocket. So, really? Do teachers get paid enough for teaching our children and helping them to achieve their full potential? Budget cuts are only going to make this worse as good teachers lose their jobs or are forced to find alternate employment because they can’t afford to feed their families; when they can no longer afford to be a teacher. A way to fix this: tell law makers to stop cutting education and be prepared for a tax increase to help pay for it. It’s the only way.

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