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It's a good thing you're not running the school or a teacher, otherwise we'd have some very lonely misguided children. If a teacher took the approach of only wanting to teach the children who wanted to learn, you'd have a class of about 12, instead of 30 plus.
Bottom line is when you cut administrative positions, the school and it's children suffer. The school doesn't have counselors at the middle school, nor does it have an ISS room. Most schools nowadays do. We need more, not less.
People need to step back, get educated, and then make statements about the situation. Spouting off at the mouth when no real research has been does is craziness. People who vote no to this, are damning their children.
Maybe if we had a little more respect for educators and what they do, we outsiders wouldn't have such short sided and narrow minded viewpoints.....
People make uneducated assumptions about someone's position without ever knowing anything about it. If the school system was forced to cut their assistant principals, good luck ever scheduling a meeting with the actual principal! From what I hear, they don't have school counselors or an ISS teacher, basic positions other big schools have. If you cut AP, who will handle school discipline or social issues? The principals have had so much dumped on their plate with the new legislation, I doubt there are enough hours in the day to get all of that done plus basic day to day school operations. Again though, this is coming from someone who has relatives in the system and knows something about it.
If you want to blame someone, don't blame the schools, teachers, administration, etc. Take a stand and stop voting in politicians who have no clue about education, i.e. Pence. They are slamming ridiculous policies onto schools that have very little to do with education. Know the source, and attack who rightfully deserves it.
So your child is an 'A' student yet, for some unknown reason, you had a conversation with a four year educated teacher who I'm sure has been teaching for many years, that they think it's ok if kids get F's? Why would they say that to you if your child is an 'A' student? And why would they just freely offer up that information? This makes no sense. Even if for some unknown reason that they did make a comment similar to this, it was probably in the context of "If the parents don't care, how are teachers supposed to get them too?" Teachers are not parents, and at some point, parents have to start taking responsibility with their children and stop pointing fingers.
Do you realize that teachers have about 150-175 kids per day they have to deal with? That's a lot of parents. I'm sure they get back to you as soon as they can. I'm not sure what extra mile you are talking about, but most teachers, my parents included, stay after school until about 5 or later to get all the grading and new state requirements completed. I defy you to be around 150-175 12-18 year old's all day. Good luck.
But, in the end, you're probably right. We should all vote no to this referendum because we will show all of the HORRIBLE teachers and GREEDY administrators what's what. It won't affect the kids at all cutting all of these extra curricular activities...........geez
What results does Union have to show you? Oh, maybe that they have been an 'A' rated school/district for a long time? They employee one of the hardest working staffs in northwest Indiana? Maybe that parents routinely bring their sons or daughters from other districts to Union just because they are told it helps maximize their child's development better than bigger schools in the area? Take your son or daughter to Pierce or River Forest. Then you'll come running back.