BOE member Mike Miller confirmed on the Douglasville Topix message board an hour ago that the BOE “approved reducing 89 teacher positions because of cutbacks in funding.” And the Sentinel said NO positions had been cut. Wonder if that is what they were told to print by the BOE??
June 25, 2009 at 11:21 am
I wondered about this when I saw it in the Sentinel, because I knew some positions were being “consolidated” (affected a friend) and that DCHS was reducing teachers and dropping some class offerings.
It is sad when I, without even trying, am better informed than the paper!
I bet there were a lot of people that had already lost their jobs with the school system due to cut backs SMOKING MAD about reading the Sentinel article!
June 25, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Maybe they wouldn’t have to cut so many positions if they found a more reasonably priced law firm.
June 30, 2009 at 3:34 pm
The 89 positions were lost through attrition and retirements. When teachers retired or resigned, their positions were not filled. Only 3 teacher positions were eliminated and these were in February. In a large school system such as Douglas, there will always be a few contracts that aren’t renewed due to certification problems or other reasons.
You’re not so well informed after all. School numbers are public records. Check for yourself before you go writing about something of which you are uninformed.
July 10, 2009 at 10:01 am
You guys on the BOE are so silly with your semantics. Yes, it is great for the teachers that you didn’t fire them, but you miss the point.
Mr. So Informed- the point is the quality of education, what you are elected to safeguard.
89 fewer positions means more kids in the classroom. More kids in the classroom means more difficulty controlling behavior. It means less time teaching. It means teachers spending more of their own money on the supplies they have to buy for their individual classrooms because you yahoos are giving raises to Remillard, Turner and Spruill while cutting their resources. It means less quality of education when we should be doing things to INCREASE the quality of education.
You are clueless. That you would assume we are, too, makes me seriously question who is running our schools.