Why It's Hard to Take our District Seriously
Let's go back to those days of yesteryear when we were a district with little money. The district had: "hiring freezes", RIFed teachers, laid off central administration workers, laid off elementary counselors and the state cut teacher and principal pay Oh wait, that's today, right? I think anyone looking at that list would say that the district is experiencing a severe money crunch. But as I've always said, this is a district that finds money when it wants to do something. STEM? No, don't go out and do the hard work of getting the program at least half-funded by private companies and entities (even though our area is rich with science/technology companies). No, we just take money from other schools. (Not saying they shouldn't have created the program but that they could have done it in a way that was more cost-efficient to the district like the STEM school over in the Tri-Cities.) Consultants? S...