<p>I go to one of the many school is San Diego that is receiving budget cuts. Our school is already cheap enough because of low test scores and now they are going to take even more money away. What is your take on this?</p>
<p>my school did major budget cuts about 2 yrs ago, and they cut most of our music/art stuff, but didn't cut sports that almost no one does. instead they cut things that a lot of people did. so i understand completly and i don't like budget cuts. i thin they're awful.</p>
<p>I live in San Diego, CA too :)
budget cuts are horrible. I remember in 5th grade, I couldn't do DARE :/
I go to a school in which the people are affluent, but the school itself has the budget of just about any other school.</p>
<p>^Same here. My school is in a very affluent area of town, but we have very little money.</p>
<p>It's really ridiculous. We have plenty of money to spend on things like legalizing Marijuana and Indian Casinos, but we can't freaking educate our children.</p>
<p>Because it makes SO much sense to take money AWAY from the lower achieving schools when they are the ones that need it! Um, ya...wow.</p>
<p>yeah my school has a huge budget cut for next year. it annoys me how they take away money from one of the highest achieving high schools in california -_-</p>
<p>my school is having a huge budget cut and putting more money into special needs programs and cutting some of our advanced classes at the school!</p>
<p>I guess taking money out makes the teachers and school more responsible.</p>
<p>My school district attempted budget cuts by stopping to pay for AP/IB exam fees, cutting advanced classes, charging for taking part in extracurriculars/sports and increasing class size, while EXPANDING the School Board members' pet projects of Pre-K and elementary school foreign language education. Thank goodness there was enough of a community effort to stop this insanity of cutting existing programs while imposing new ones.</p>
<p>They also tried to abolish summer school. I'm not sure if they succeeded, but if they did I'm not complaining there, because summer school classes are nowhere near the standard of term-time instruction, at least in our district.</p>
<p>ironically, my school is getting more money than usual, but it's cutting out a few advanced programs -_-</p>
<p>Every single year, my town has to vote on the school budget and for the past few years, it hasn't passed. The problem is that my school gets so little state funding and it's paid for almost completely by the town taxes. The taxes are ridiculous, and each year, the same services can't even be kept without a tax increase. So whenever the budget doesn't get passed, they usually have to cut something (it hasn't really been that bad lately with the cuts), and they are only able to add very few new programs each year... agneisse, my school board members also decided to add an elementary school world language program last year, but I guess it's ok since nothing major needed to be cut in order to attain that. Every year they threaten to take away music programs, librarians, or guidance counsolors, but when the budget doesn't pass, they have the authority to put it through anyway, regardless of what people say, so the vote doesn't matter.</p>
<p>Also since their is a high cost to living in southern cal. the teachers want more money. I'm all for giving teachers more money but that would mean less teachers and more class size. </p>
<p>(Just want some opinions so post whatever you feel about the issue even if you are for budget cuts.)</p>
<p>and what sucks is the NJ gov school is going to be accepting ALOT less people due to budget cuts.</p>
<p>Our school has the opposite problem. I go to school in an affluent New England town, and we get very little funding b/c all the money goes to failing schools. Thus, our buildings and technology are 10 times crappier than what the inner-city schools have. (Meanwhile our test scores are going down the drain).</p>
<p>Also another question. Whenever I ask one of my teachers why they don't teach in a rich school the response I hear most often is that the kids in those schools are spoiled.</p>
<p>That's pretty much true. But there are those hardworking individuals like me who would appreciate if the state funded more AP classes or at least removed the mold from the ceilings once in a while.</p>