Teachers leave those kids alone. Hey! Teachers, leave those kids alone!

More like "The United States of America, leave our schools alone!"

My school district was given til midnight tonight to make 5 million dollars worth of cuts.

PE, music/band, and libraries have been cut at elementary schools...
Two schools, with combined enrollment of over 4,000 are being threatened with closure...
Ron Hockwalt, my school, is closing at the end of this year...
The IB program at 2 high schools is cut...
All non-varsity sports programs are on the chopping board...
Some 40 teachers are being laid off...

AND THATS JUST MY DISTRICT! School districts across the nation are being impacted!

These are dark times for the US's educational system.

My history class at my old school, Diamond Bar High, had 52 students. There were 30 desks. 35 text books.

And now the government is saying we need to cut an ADDITIONAL 7 MILLION by this June.

Anyone else being impacted?
This has thrown off my entire path to college. I may need an extra year of high school to make up for all the lost classes.
I was actually on a path to graduate as a Junior next year with full credits...but that's not happening now, is it.

Another example of something the fed has ********** up!

Yeah, and a few months ago they did another ridiculous thing, they raised the fees for my brother's school (UC Berkeley, along with several/most other UC's) by like 60% or something... Maybe it was 40%... but he had a hard enough time paying them before that. Thank Godd for scholarships.

Also my sister's boyfriend's classes at UCLA were cut due to budgets. (He was/is a history major at a mainly medical school).

Yeah my uni has to cut 4.2mil..on top of the previous millions of cuts..so on top of the fee hikes thier starting to cut the masters programs..ouch. (prev cuts were 20 something mil)..total new cuts for the Georgia uni system=300mil, 700 students here will be affected and 39 profs will loose thier jobs...fun fun fun

Up here we are not having ANY problems....not even from the Metro area? Hmmmmm I think Zombies are involved here!

Obama needs to take action. Who cares if the reds and blues disagree with each other over this..."one man of courage makes a majority."

He needs to be the JFK the voters expected him to be. Other than this issue, I think he's doing quite well considering our nation's circumstances. I just wish he would focus his energy more on education. Universal healthcare is nothing without the education system to support new doctors. Solving the economic crisis is nothing if the next generation of the adult americans isn't taught to maintain their finances.

"The hottest places in Helll are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." - Dante

Well for starters his getting rid of that worthless piece of junk called no child left behind, i talked to my biol prof the other day he said before NCLB about 20% of biol majors dropped after the first year...he says its at 70% now..go figure

Spl. Durkee wrote:

Obama needs to take action. Who cares if the reds and blues disagree with each other over this..."one man of courage makes a majority."

He needs to be the JFK the voters expected him to be. Other than this issue, I think he's doing quite well considering our nation's circumstances. I just wish he would focus his energy more on education. Universal healthcare is nothing without the education system to support new doctors. Solving the economic crisis is nothing if the next generation of the adult americans isn't taught to maintain their finances.

"The hottest places in Helll are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." - Dante

Like Obama would take action....
he'll probly just say what he wants to do... and not get anything done like normal!

yeah, Im seeing it here too. They just built a $16 million school, but they don't have books, desks, or paper products.

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Spl. Durkee wrote:

Obama needs to take action. Who cares if the reds and blues disagree with each other over this..."one man of courage makes a majority."

He needs to be the JFK the voters expected him to be. Other than this issue, I think he's doing quite well considering our nation's circumstances. I just wish he would focus his energy more on education. Universal healthcare is nothing without the education system to support new doctors. Solving the economic crisis is nothing if the next generation of the adult americans isn't taught to maintain their finances.

"The hottest places in Helll are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." - Dante

Like Obama would take action....
he'll probly just say what he wants to do... and not get anything done like normal!

Uh...where have YOU been for the last year?

Yeah like it or not...Obamas been doing pretty "Watch your language" well..especialy on the war on terror, in his first year in office more terrorist leaders have been captured then in the entire bush administration years.

Back on topic tho..I realy would love to see better education standards here...this binge and purge method used here is BS and its going to get the US in some serious trouble, considering China has more genuis students then the US has students

New York's had a lot of budget cuts, but I don't think there have been may in the education area. Maybe last year, but nothing horrible.

@Zane - He's doing good with what he got from Bush. The Presidents who had bad approval ratings generally followed an unsuccessful administration (correct me if I'm wrong, but was it LBJ who inherited Vietnam? Or was it Nixon? Hmm. Time for a Google search...)

br55ftw wrote:

New York's had a lot of budget cuts, but I don't think there have been may in the education area. Maybe last year, but nothing horrible.

@Zane - He's doing good with what he got from Bush. The Presidents who had bad approval ratings generally followed an unsuccessful administration (correct me if I'm wrong, but was it LBJ who inherited Vietnam? Or was it Nixon? Hmm. Time for a Google search...)

I'm sorry but i don't seem to get your point?...please explain?

Zane wrote:

Back on topic tho..I realy would love to see better education standards here...this binge and purge method used here is BS and its going to get the US in some serious trouble, considering China has more genuis students then the US has students

I'f I'm not mistaken, they also have more english speakers than all of the United States

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I'f I'm not mistaken, they also have more english speakers than all of the United States

If thats true then this country has more problems than just the schools goin to heck...

Well, every chinese student must master at least three languages, so it doesn't really surprise me.

Oh....when you tell me that then im not surprised either......

Yeah the US is the only Nation I know off that doesnt require mastery of atleast 2, native and one world tongue...the spaish class you took in HS doesnt count lol

If it was french then i wouldnt mind so much and doesnt the US not even have a National language?

Yeah the US does not have a national language, sooo you can't wine if someones not speaking English

But it is america so speak american!

Insane Mercc wrote:

But it is america so speak american!

No comment.

Just found out our school is getting rid of feild trips next year my bro told me. Glad I just got back from the skiing one.

Yeah, we don't have anything here, either. Our MCJROTC unit was promised 500 square feet of storage space, a full size classroom, and a range facility. We have a small office.

Jarhead999 76 65 wrote:

Yeah, we don't have anything here, either. Our MCJROTC unit was promised 500 square feet of storage space, a full size classroom, and a range facility. We have a small office.

Yeah dude thats gotta suck..are you guys not a Honor Unit? we got 20k a year from the Army becouse we were HUD to spend on equip for our program..oltho im sure thats being cut.