I've never went to a school board meeting before, but I really wanted to have a question answered so I decided to go. A few weeks ago I was told by a school employee that a project, a remodel of a intermediate school, was $20M over budget. $20M overbudget for a school remodel?? That's why I went. I arrived at 5:30pm, the board meeting was called into session and I was promptly escorted out of the auditorium because there was an executive session and the public wasn't invited. Oh well. I met a lady in the cafeteria and we began to chat. She has three kids in this school district. At 6:30pm we were invited back into the auditorium and the meeting continued. Lots of agenda items, some perked my ears up, some were hohum. A school employee named Steve, I later found out he was the grand poobah of the physical building guru(sorry I don't know his title), stood up and proceeded to explain how the remodel of the intermediate school was progressing. $15M has been spent as to date with a total cost over run of about a million. He explained in detail on why the overruns happened and I fully understood what he was saying.
The meeting lasted about two hours but what really frightened me was the lack of people in the audience. Only myself and the lady with three kids were present. That's it. A school district with about 2000 kids and probably 10K+ residents and only TWO people show up for a school board meeting.
Is this common for other parts of America? If so then I completely understand why our schools are turning out dolts. No parental oversight of the board members. No input. No nothing to keep the school board on a path which most parents want. I plan on seeing the Superintendent of the school system and the guy named Steve. Pick their minds and express my wishes on how to make the school a better place for the kids. Somehow the board wants to spend large quantites of money on buildings but the average percentile this school system has, compared with the entire state, is around 37% for reading comprehension and 43% for Math. Something is not quite right in this district. Maybe I'll figure it out.
If you have suggestions on how to raise the percentile rates please let me know.
The "parents" drop their kids off and pick them up. The school's job is to feed and raise their children. Period.
Parents get so annoyed when their kids require their attn I’ve noticed observing my friends
It's sad.
babysitter by other name.
👆Exactly! People dont want to “parent” This generation is a very self centered one. Ive had to say something a few times to my daughter who is juggling everything from working full time to home and raising the kids because her hubs is “to busy”buying toys or doing “his thing” to jump in and help. He has gotten better but Ive stepped on toes for the sake of my grandbabies.
I am glad you did that.
I didn't believe I could handle working and parenting (while doing good with both) so opted for no kids instead.
You would be amazed at what you are capable of. I was a single mother of two. I worked full time, kids were almost straight A students and in sports. You put yourself aside and run with it no matter how tired you are somedays. Just love your babies!! 😉
Sounds like your daughter married my ex-husband.
Lol he is getting better but some days
Care to elaborate? What toys and what thing is so important?
I will just leave it at this……He is a good guy just needs to focus more on the children. Time goes to fast, you look up and have missed a million things you cant get back.
Worse though. Babysitter into porn on crack.
Yeah. Sad. Better take them out or send them to religious school.