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The First Round of WCASD Cuts Are In
by
Austin Nolen | 05.21.2010
Education is a right, not a privilege. Don’t cut spending on our educations, cut wasteful spending on over-funded sports programs and inefficient infrastructure. WCASD Students Against Budget Cuts and Partisanship In Schools
Attention WCASD Students:
The first budget cuts are in.
If your school board has its way, you’re going to have to pay for SAT Prep.
New curriculum proposals will be disregarded, and current classes, especially arts classes, will receive large cuts in funding.
Freshmen will no longer be allowed into CAT.
Audio-visual and other technology-based programs will no longer have as many staff.
Younger siblings of yours in elementary school will no longer have the ability to receive public tutoring for literacy and math skills.
These are just Phase I.
Look for cuts in Foreign Language coming soon, among other things.
All because a decent education is apparently a burden on tax payers.
Your district is taking these steps to insure no taxes are raised, even by just the 3.8% per year norm.
And throughout it all, sports programs will suffer very little.
Arts and music will bear a lot of the current budget cutting, but sports programs will retain their 3 or more paid professionals per individual team.
Of course, those students who love sports but aren’t good enough to make the team WILL suffer intramural cuts.
But, despite tax concerns, Westtown tax payers will soon have to pay more taxes for Rustin’s soon-to-be-installed field lights. These lights ARE needed, but the hypocrisy is all too clear.
Education is a right, not a privilege. Don’t cut spending on our educations, cut wasteful spending on over-funded sports programs and inefficient infrastructure.
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Foreign Language Literacy is our Beacon in Global Marketplace
Submitted by Carol Anthony (not verified) on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 10:57pmBeleaguered taxpayers may see foreign languages as a dispensable luxury, but the future global economy will prove
otherwise. Besides improving academic performance and critical thinking in all disciplines, exposure to a second language has a positive impact on our children's social and emotional development--and ultimately their success in the fiercely competitive global marketplace, where the children of almost every other nation learn multiple languages, including English---from Day 1. Where does that leave our children? Foreign languages will light their way to the future. Can field lights do that?
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