Ferndale school board looks at cuts, layoffs to balance budget

think of the children wrote:

California is still one of the largest economies in the world.
Arnold needs to get over his political phobias and open a Bank of California. European nations have had gov. banks for decades, banks that didn't allow trading in derivatives and fared better in the crash.
It would be a source of billions.
We fail to invest in our children at great peril. For those who have never had the rapid leaning experience of being tutored, you have NO IDEA about the effective learning speed in smaller classrooms.

BUCK O-FAMA wrote:

Teachers get paid WAY too much for what they do....oh, they will tell you over and over again how they need to buy pencils for poor students out of their own pocket, but yet, they don't mind all those days off they get every year. Does anybody know what their "contract" is these days...? like 188 days of work for the whole year? So, if they make 40k a year, not bad. if they make more...well, let's not forget the pension they get for the rest of their life.
End Teachers Unions.
End the Dept of Education, leave it up to the States.
Cut Administration Positions that soak up big tax dollars to push paper and agendas.
Let the School Board have more control on how the money should be spent.
No more Fancy Schools. You could build 3 "institutional" solid, safe schools with the money they now spend to remodel one...these makeovers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars alone, and need to be redone in a decade.
School uniforms mandatory.
Stick to the basics on what should be taught. My child had to learn all about "Islam" and who "allah" is and what he stands for, but Christ was left on the back burner. My child also had to memorize all the countries in South America, etc, but not AMERICA.
MULTI culturism, diversity, tolerance, homophobia, are not subjects to be taught in school.