School closings, layoffs possible for Boston Public Schools
By adamg - Wed, 03/19/2008 - 2:33pm.
System has only cut $16 million of $33-million projected deficit.
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System has only cut $16 million of $33-million projected deficit.
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Leave kids behind
I heard busing is pretty expensive these days, what with the cost of gas and all...
Busing?
Why are we paying for it? Aren't the schools served by MBTA routes? School buses seem to be unnecessary in urban areas. In Burlington, VT (where I grew up), students used public transit to get to school.
Even 5 year olds?
Would you want your unescorted 5 year old to have to take that bus that the high school kids are trying to make safer?
Didn't think so.
Fair enough
What is the cost of having a bus guard (akin to a crossing guard) ride with the younger students? I'd imagine it would be far less expensive than paying for school buses.
Unless we have purely neighborhood schools
There are just too many kids going too many different directions to account for.
most busing is black to white
Most busing is sending black kids into less black neighborhoods. The result of closing it down would probably mean closing lots of the schools in whit(er) neighborhoods like AB.
Not a parent of a young kid, I take it?
Plus, down here in the boonies, not all schools are near T bus lines.
In any case, maybe it's finally time for the BPS to stop paying for the transportation of private-school students.
School closings, layoffs possible for Boston Public Schools
The next step should be to make the Governor Deval Patrick pay politically for the deficit.
Now there are only tro options: further cuts or raising taxes. #2 option always backfires...
"tro" options? is that new
"tro" options?
is that new math or math they only taught you in your public school.
;-)
I know, I know. typo. It happens.
Tro!
Dunno about other school systems, but in Boston, the kids are supposed to learn "Terc" math, which is just wonderful because to us old fuddy-duddies who learned math in columns, it means we can't help kids with these bizarre factorial triangly things because we don't have a clue and they will get marked down if they do something so rebellious as simply subtract numbers from right to left in columns.
old fuddy duddy
my son brings home math that is "lattice" math and he draws lines all over stuff and I'm like cracker PLEASE what is up with this!!!??? and he's confused... and then I show him the way I learned it and he's happy and satisfied, gets all the write answers but gets marked down in school because he didn't do it "lattice" style.
so we had a meeting and said "look, your lattices suck. he gets the right answers. stop. failing. him."
just my tro cents on the matter.
Typo
Typo corrected:
The next step should be to make the Governor Deval Patrick pay politically for the deficit.
Now there are only TWO options: further cuts or raising taxes. #2 option always backfires...
Deval Patrick is a joke. This guy can't run a state, what's next? More taxes. In MASS we have been taxed more than enough...
Soooo... where should the $$ come from?
Patrick didn't suddenly create the deficit, and he certainly can't fix the budget in the amount of time he's been in office. Where do you suppose the money should come from?
Soooo... where should the $$ come from?
Money should come from further program cuts. This makes logical sense, rather than taking it from good citizens of Massachusetts in form of new taxes or higher taxes.
But if the governor cuts other programs down to save the money, he'll be a toast, he might not be able to last untill next election. So in order for him to survive politically, he has to come up with the money.
No money no honey...
no child left behind is a
no child left behind is a success!
oh wait...
Neighborhood Schools
I got a novel idea. Let's end busing and save some money then we won't continue to lose peole to the suburbs.
Call me crazy!
Bring back neighborhood schools (especially high schools)!