Saturday, May 23, 2009

School Updates

Well, the E.O.G.'s are over. The boys have informed me that everyone who did not get a note sent home, passed them and does not have to retest. Since no notes came home Friday, I am crossing my fingers that this news is, in fact, true. Levi, however, just found out that he has exams soon. He told me the news and then said, "You don't seem surprised." "I knew this already," I replied laughing. I don't know where he has been, I KNOW he has been told this before. He has no more reading log for the year, and Wyatt has no more homework for the year. Their last day is June 10th. Big changes are coming next year to our schools because of budget cut backs. For starters, biotechnology has been cancelled from the middle school. To retaliate, Levi told us he was going to take office assistant and cooking classes. We steered him toward art and a physics class where they build bridges and rockets. To make matters worse they fired all the current bus drivers, that are teachers aides, and have hired the jobs out for next year. These people will be driving multiple routes for 7 1/2 hours a day. As a result, the elementary school day, will be 30 minutes longer (8:15-3) and the middle school day will be from 9-4. That means if Levi rides the bus, he will get home at 5. There is a meeting at the middle school with the superintendent and the school board (none of whom will get MY vote again) on Thursday of next week. I encourage everyone to attend this meeting and give them you know what for this ridiculous plan. Like my mom said, "Allot of things are good IN THEORY."

11 comments:

CrystalW said...

So I guess Nona will not be driving the bus next year. Changing the school time is crazy. I don't see how they can justify hiring people to drive the bus. Either way, they have to pay someone to do it. I am sure the boys passed their EOGs. They have been getting good grades all year.

Shannon said...

No Nona lost her job like all the others did. I am sure they will pay the new drivers less. They claim it will save 740,000 this next year alone.

Nancy M. said...

Gosh, that just sounds like a big old mess! I don't really see how that's going to fix anything.

Shannon said...

Our schools are really big. They claim that parking 20 buses and having the schools share them is cheaper than running all off them. The elementary school alone has 13 or more buses.

Cliff said...

I don't think I'll be able to make the meeting.
You've touched a nerve here. Health insurance goes up each year but we get a better product each year. (with advances in medicine)
The cost of education goes up each year but the product doesn't get better. As a matter of fact it seems to get worse. I think the feds are trying to have schools do too much.

Carolina Mama said...

Please tell me my page loads more quickly now. :) Hope so.

Hey, love your Farm Fridays! Hope they will be regular. ;)

Your boys did great!

Carolina Mama said...

I know they are all having a ball at the Conference. Maybe another time - we're leaving for the beach Thursday....

Fantastagirl said...

Oh wow... this is not a good thing. There was discussion in our district to go to a 4 day school week. But luckily it is state law that have a 5 day week. The school day would have been from 8:00 AM to 5:00 - 9 hours???? That's tooo long especially for the little ones.

Our kids are in class from 8:30 until 3:00 in the K-5; 8:30 to 3:15 6-12.

Shannon said...

No the day is seven hours long for middle school in our county. It was 8:30 to 3:30, but now it will be 9 to 4.

Anonymous said...

Your graduation pictures are great. When I went in to hug the buddies before your dad and I left, they said, "We didn't know you were here! We saw Granddaddy, but not you!" They said it as if they were glad I was there. It made me feel good anyway! The conference was good, but tiring. I saw Anna, her husband, and their four children on Thursday or Friday, not sure which day. I never saw Beth, if she was there.
Love, Mom

Shannon said...

Beth wasn't there, who is Anna?