housing makt still in the pits

Originally Posted by SuffolkGirl

The cost of education is another thing entirely. If you really break down the school budget there is a nauseating amount paid for administration (just like in health care). While increasing energy costs do affect the overall cost, it is mainly the

upwardly spiraling cost of special education that is bulging the education budget.

As an example of the administrative B.S. that my taxes pay for, children will now get a report on their B.M.I. (body mass index) on their report cards - WTF?

My taxes are paying to pinch fat kids' arms and then tell their fat parents that their kids are fat?!!! Turns out, cutting physical education and sitting in front of the TV with XBox 360 don't burn many calories. Grrrrr.

Back to work to pay for the nanny state.....

OH MY GOD!

Somebody understands...

The no child left behind stuff requires so many extra aides
for special ed kids. Our district has to pay for so much more staff, etc...
in order to meet the mandated needs that were unfunded. (The funds
come directly from the taxpayers in the school area in this state)

I sit in a room for one whole period (47 minutes) waiting for kids to come in
that need one on one. Sometimes no one shows up. I cannot
leave to go help somewhere else, like double team in a Physics class
for that time, where one teacher is trying to do a lab with 30 kids.
Leaving is against the unfunded mandate. Our school could potentially
lose other money if I go help. I was picked for this job because I can make
the kids understand. But I could help so many more. It is a misuse of
manpower.

And the body fat study. They frggn pulled kids out of my class to
make them walk around a track and pinch them. We have stuff to do.
I lost valuable instructional time. Those are PHYSICS minutes, do I get
my PHYSICS minutes back with those kids? And yes I could have told
you which kids are fat and which are not. But I guess the fed. government
wants exact numbers. I want my time back that I lost with those kids.

You touched a raw nerve.