MTmom
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miranda - why does your school need suburbans?
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Miranda
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[quote]miranda - why does your school need suburbans? [/quote]
That is a good effing question. I can't wait until the first PTO or school board meeting.
I have seen custodians driving them and also special needs teachers driving kids places.
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MTmom
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hmm.. cant they reuse the busses to move kids around? Doesnt your school already pay for busses?? And custodians!! I'd be livid if the janitors were driving new suburbans.. totally unnecessary!!
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Miranda
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[quote]hmm.. cant they reuse the busses to move kids around? Doesnt your school already pay for busses?? And custodians!! I'd be livid if the janitors were driving new suburbans.. totally unnecessary!! [/quote]
I was reading the letter while at the school and I saw the 22 year old custodian driving a 40K suburban. I was LIVID, and the shiesters had the brains to send the letter home the LAST day of school so hoping it would slide under the radar.
I want to know why school lunches went up 10X the amount of inflation.
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MTmom
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I am a HUGE fan of letters to the editor of the local paper. I would be sending one NOW and the next time the district requests a mill levy for the general fund!!
I am all for supporting our kids.. but I am SICK to death of irresponsible fiscal policy in schools!! And even further, I am so tired of watching school district officials who can't even read a financial statement making off the wall budgeting decisions!!
I think every school district in America should be required to have an onery comptroller and a CFO in charge of the finances!
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PrincessJ
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Frightening times.....
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Miranda
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Well I live in San Antonio which, I think, is the 7th largest city in the US so I don't think a letter to the editor would even be published.
I complained and a moronic woman at the district told me "well different money comes from different pots and they cannot be interchanged". Well moron, when you do the yearly budget you can take from here and put in there. The school also just spent 10K on curtains for theater arts. And thousands on flowers for the district office.
Like I said, I cannot wait until "the breakfast with the super" so I can ask him all of these things to his face.
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matilda
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I think what she is trying to tell you about is categorical funding. The government in its wisdom can decide to put restricted monies in categories such as building, supplies, deferred maintenance etc. It is illegal for the school districts to simply move this money from one category to another. Some of these monies can be carried over from one year to the next. Other times it is a use it or lose it basis. So ultimately, the school may not technically NEED something in that category, but has to spend it on what the state/federal governments specifies of lose it. Much of the school district budget isn't decided on by the school district, but rather by the state and federal governments. Not to say that there isn't waste, but the real entity to blame is the government putting silly rules on how to spend money that isn't always what the kids need.
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katiefedup
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thats what I was going to add....funds cannot be moved. Most SD have to spend ALL of the money in each funded account or they loose that money the next year. I see so much waste. The best was when building fund had too much money for one site so they for no reason replastered 3 walls at the highest bidder so they wouldn't be in the positive at the end of the budget year.
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LeAnne
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Maybe the super needs to take a paycut? Here the upper people, I think make way too much money. The elementary school principal, makes 106,000 a year. Last I read in the paper, the super made close to 200,000. Knock 20,000 off his salary, that's alot of food or gas.
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