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Friday, October 10, 2008

School cuts again?!

Alright, so I don't know if I mentioned this before, but my school's budget (well, ALL schools in Clark Counties budgets) were cut by 70% at the beginng of this year. That means that our previous budget of $100,000 we ran on last year is only $30,000 this year. This includes all of our paper supplies, copier maintentence, toner for printers and copiers, pencils, erasers, etc... Understandably, we have been freaking out over how we're going to make it through the year. Well, it was annouced today that they are cutting the budget by an additional 12%. WHAT!? How the heck do they expect us to run a school of almost 700 on $26,400. That equals out to about $37/kid for an entire year. I truly do not understand how they expect a school to run on this. And I don't know where we can make more cuts from out budget. We're already down to brass tacks. I guess my kids will be writing with pencil stubs, broken crayons, and worn out markers by the end of the year. Heck, at this rate, I'll be lucky if they aren't using them by the middle of the year. ::sigh::

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well obviously they assume that you will go to the 99 cent store and buy 37 items for each child that must last an entire year. Silly girl. What were you thinking! It's so simple. ;) Sorry about the cuts. I can imagine how frustrating that is!

Anonymous said...

so stupid. all the money in that town, and so little goes to education. just lets you know what's important in Vegas sometimes.