Post I forgot to post on March 30th

Tomorrow is a minimum day.  Kids go home 50 minutes earlier.  I bet you'd like to know why.   Well .... I'll tell you why.  Because it's Cesar Chavez Day.   Now, Cesar Chavez was a very important man and I do believe all he did should be celebrated -- buy why have a minimum day you ask?  

Well ... I'll tell you why.  Because it's Cesar Chavez Day.   And because it's C.C. Day high school kids were leaving schools early to go to marches and celebrations.   So ... after a couple years of kids cutting classes, sneaking out the doors & jumping out the  windows in order to enjoy their civil rights (and celebrations), the district decided to make it a minimum day.

And it's a great min day, too, 'cause teachers don't have to hang around for meetings or do reports or any reason at all.  We can also leave early!
Woopie!

And the next day, Friday, is one of those furlough days -- where they close up the schools so they don't have to pay any school employees for a day.  

Yay politics and big banks and the housing industry and all those other successful rip off artists.  

The district I work for has actually done a better
job maintaining financially than some nearby.  One has 5 "no student" days in the year.  Five days that children are not being taught, parents are paying day care or taking their own time off work and everyone who works in the schools does not get paid.  (well, maybe administrators do, I don't know)  But custodians, bus drivers, maintenance people, secretaries, cafeteria workers, cooks, yard duty people, and teachers do not.


We only have one this year.  And we maintained only 20 kids in each kindergarten.  I don't think we will be able to next year.  

I think we'll have more students in each classroom (4th through 6th already have 34 kids in each, 2nd and 3rd have about 25)  I'm hoping Kindergarten will max out at 25.  That will lay off at least one teacher at each school.


And I think we'll have more no-student days.  I avoid budget meetings so I don't know how comparing the monies in (based on each student in attendance) is affected by no money in and no salaries out, but it seems to be the plan.


Oh well, I guess as long as the rich keep getting richer; that's all that matters.