Ky school district cutting back to 4 day school week

[alfredo]

Looks like Bush will need to cut taxes for the rich again.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/11/07/four.day.school.ap/index.html



By using the shortened schedule, the district of 1,900 students in this western Kentucky farming and coal mining region hopes to save about 2 percent of its annual spending -- or $200,000 -- on bus service, substitute teachers and utilities. It is the first district in Kentucky to go to four days.

[lostnfound]

1. Unbelievable -- we "open the schools" in Iraq & Afghanistan??

and close them in Kentucky, to save money.
Does BFEE feel there's less need to 'wash a brain' that isn't being used?

[Occulus]

4. that particular hypocrisy

would make an excellent letter to the editor.

Afghanistan and Iraq both had a working school system. Granted, under the Taliban women couldn't attend, and that had to be stopped, either in our hunt for bin Laden or an ousting of the Taliban ala Saddam (and yes, that would eventually have become necessary- the Taliban needed to go, and yet now they're coming back- GAAAHHH, my head is about to explode), BUT-

They had working schools. We bombed them to bits. Now, we're paying to rebuild those- while the schools in our own country crumble and wither.

This could be painted as a national security issue. Unless the BFEE plans, individually, to live forever, why in the name of God are we not giving enough to our future generations to ensure that our nation can remain secure in that future?

The people in charge are so greedy they're willing to screw over their successors to have their cake now. And my cake, and my kids' cakes, and their kids' cakes.....


This simply has to stop.

[Don_G]

2. Yet Once Again

The poor and middle class gets the short end of the refund shaft.

[ComerPerro]

3. I agree

This calls for tax cuts for the wealthy.

[charlie]

5. If this sort of shit doesn't set off alarms

amongst the public, then we're past the point of no return. Anyone complacent about these shortened school weeks is the sort of idiot who'd burn his furniture to avoid winter heating costs.

[elperromagico]

6. Why not just make it one day a week

and spend that one day helping the kids memorize the answers on standardized tests?

Sounds like "No Child Left Behind" to me.