Big Hollow Debate
August 20, 2007 by admin
Filed under Fund The Child, General
I have had a commenter, Adam Casbarian, who claims to be a Big Hollow Schools District resident debating me on the situation at Big Hollow. I am moving this dialogue up to a full post for those who do not look back to older posts. First, he tried to answer myself and some district residents have asked. Adam’s answers are below each question to make it easier to follow:
- Why did the district build new schools if the finances were so bad? Why didn’t they scale them down if they needed more room?
They built more schools because their student population has tripled. They were able to build these schools with SPECIFIC money that can only be used for building facilities. This money cannot be used for anything else. (People are always willing to spend money on a building”
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My children will be starting Big Hollow in Aug of ’09. After reading all the problems with the school, the lack of lunch time (!?), recess, etc, PLUS the fact that kindergarten is only a half day, it only makes sense to me to send my girls to a private school. I’d be paying the same amount as I will in daycare for before school & after school care, plus they would get 8 hours of learning each day!
In response to the salary freeze. I love that the principal got a 5.5% increase. Mine last year was 2.9%, HOWEVER, no one seems to care that my taxes went up. OR that my daycare costs went up. Or that gas went up. But by god, the principal got 5.5%? And there’s apparently TWO of them needed in one school? So you mean to tell me, not only will my children only get a half day of education, I STILL pay for full-day daycare once they start school, my raise still will never match cost of living increase despite the 4+ years I spent in college, they get no lunch time (only a snack), and because taxes go up, now my home value is going down. Nice one Big Hollow. Gives me a great incentive to move despite the housing market slump.
I came from a poor school district in the south, but they somehow managed to give me a great education, lunch time and playground time, a building to learn in, never once charged my parents registration fees each year, and I was still bussed to school FULL TIME. Sure, there were 30 students to a teacher, but guess what, I survived. Keep it up, and eventually every parent will opt to pay for private education because it will cost them just as much as sending them to part-time PUBLIC education. Then the district will truly lose money. Then what? “I’m sorry, we can no longer afford to offer kindergarten.”