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questions about gross budget requests? We’ve seen a lot of those documents, as have most public officials, and there hasn’t been one yet that didn’t contain quite a bit of “fat.” The fact that in most recent years many local school jurisdictions have returned to the general fund unused, budgeted money stands as stark proof of how their budgets are inflated.
To say this is not to accuse anyone of anything; a prudent manager must always make allowances for contingencies, emergencies, unforseen events. But to insist that every single red cent be retained in such a budget, at the cost of some equally deserving requests, is foolish and unworthy of education’s supporters—a category which, to state the matter again, includes practically every single one of us.
TEACHERS have been hard pressed by recent inflation, but who hasn’t? All taxpayers have, and it isn’t likely that the federal tax rebates will help all that much, either. Almost nine per cent of Americans are out of work; the percentages are much higher in some counties right here at home. Everybody is feeling the pinch, so why shouldn’t everybody be entitled to question the proper expenditure of public funds?
Economy and belt-tightening are the rule throughout America at this time, and neither the educational bureaucracy nor classroom instructors can expect to be exempted from an admittedly harsh fact of life.C
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