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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (186198)3/28/2012 8:29:52 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 542642
 
We are not yet at that crisis point. In that respect you guys are out ahead of us. Here's hoping we can stay slow and perhaps, even, get off the track.

The local school district had been planning ahead for a fiscal crisis and so had built up some pockets. When Christie cut the state portion of schools budgets so dramatically and so suddenly, the local district was able to cover that cut--a very large one-by outsourcing the custodial staff. None of us were happy with that because the folk who clean the buildings after school and in the evenings are unfamiliar and one can't but worry. And, second, because we have every reason to expect those savings are transitory. Once the companies that do that get a good grip on the jobs, they'll start escalating costs.

But, for the moment, we dodged that bullet. But it means that budgets are terribly unpredictable. And newly so.

Morale remains high. Sort in the feeling that everyone has to pitch in because it's a collective crisis.

But, as you say, class size is larger; there are fewer adults per seriously troubled kids; the extracurricular stuff is being cut; and so on.

And all this in a time in which it's clearer than ever that good public education is the way a society provides opportunity. But the budget cutters don't appear to care about that; only keeping taxes low for the wealthy.
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