Schools Cannot Live Within Their Means
Dear Editor,
Some time ago I said, “we could go to the school board, ask how much needed to be in the budget for next year, provide that amount plus 20 percent, and two weeks later there would appear an unanticipated need that was ‘unfunded.’”
(This is more of a paraphrase.) We provided the funds for the cameras so what have they done with it?? Aside from libs generally, the schools just cannot seem to “live within their means,” as all of us must. In any well-run company, when budgets are reduced and cuts are required, they usually start with supervisory positions, because they make the most money and are the least productive. I wonder how many assistant principals and sub-assistant principals actually spend even six hours a day at their desks, working?
Maybe the lack of fiscal responsibility is due to lack of supervision?
I almost never blame the teachers for our errant schools.
Rich Carrera
The problem may be something like what Andy Rooney said: “dumb kids and dumb parents”. Not exactly, but close enough. Our children are educated by the IdiotBox and the DumbPhone. In that manner, they are less trouble to their parents.
What do they get on the idiot box? Vacant scandals and media opinion.
What do they get on the DumbPhone? Hearsay.
The school board had $1,000,000 left over in their fiscal budget last year. The Superintendent and the Board did not spend any of that money on ‘the kids’, school supplies, before and after school lunches, books, security enhancements or anything else. They all decided to give it all away to teachers as a bonus (for all their hard away from in person teaching) they did last year. This was all documented in newspaper articles in Greensboro but none of the County Commissioners objected. Then the school board asked for more than $3,000,000 of additional funding just a few months later. The County Commissioners said yes and gave the liberal and financially challenged school board and Superintendent the money. And then we have, of course, the least qualified Commissioner, Skip Alston, who wants the county to borrow more than $1.8 BILLION dollars to improve schools. Talk about sending a kid into a candy store and telling him he can take and eat whatever he wants with no consequences! All these liberal commissioners and school board members MUST BE REPLACED as soon as possible. Also remember that the Republican controlled county board gave the school board $300 million dollars to work on schools. I guess the taste of candy was just too much for the county commissioners and the inept and financially ‘challenged’ school board members. When I contacted one of the commissioners about this I was told that once the money is given to the school board, the county commissioners have absolutely ZERO CONTROL about how the money is spent. That also needs to change. When the commissioners put the school bond issue to voters, VOTE NO. Taxes in Greensboro are going up and thanks to the real estate reassessment, property taxes are also going to go up even if there is no change in the tax rate. We need to STOP THE LIBERAL AND INEPT AND FINANCIALLY ‘CHALLENGED’ SCHOOL BOARD AND COMMISSIONERS (one of whom is a teacher). Remember the Boston Tea Party? It is time for another one!
Are you kidding me? Assistant Principals are a very important part of education. No one person can run a school like in “the old days”. With off campus meetings , athletics, parent meetings, IEP meetings, PTSA meetings and the list goes on and on. Assistant Principals work close to the classroom teachers. They do not work at their desks!
Do not assume their position isn’t important or appreciated.
If we gave the school board a blank check with an infinite line of credit, it still wouldn’t be enough. They seem to have a total lack of the concepts of responsibility and accountability.
Please tell me what the school maintenance workers did while schools were closed last year. Obviously it didn’t include maintenance on the HVAC/AC systems as many of them broke as soon as school started. That one million left over dollars could have gone a long way on maintenance instead of bonuses for everybody. The school board and superintendent are a constant source of amazement for poor decisions. Please don’t re-elect them.
As long as there is a superintendent who takes any amount up to 10 million dollars and the has to accoutfor it and says “it’s gone and we need more.This is the same superintendent that got an extinct job to 2025.Ther was $10 million allocated for add polio for safety,the superintendent spent the money and then told our commissioners that she knew of a system that spent$20 million on Doors I guess this is how Democrats waste taxpayers money and then claim ignorance.She is the same that made a unilateral decision to bus all eligible high school voters to precincts to vote for the school bond.At no other time has she done such a foolish thing.This is why we need to be RId of all Democrats in the city and county.
How do you propose becoming “rid of all Democrats in the city and county”?