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Get Off
Gravy Train
To the Editor:
It was suggested at the Monday night meeting on the school budget that I write this letter
After reviewing the 1996 budget plan, several points of interest were sighted. 1) Every School Board member is getting a raise except the High School Principal, Assistant Principal, and Comp/Administrator. Those three are getting a cut in pay and possibly one cut out all together (Administrator). 2) If these people are getting cuts, why can’t the teachers at least stay at present salary. Isn’t over $30,000 per teacher enough? If the parents of the students still in school want these teachers to have their raises, thpn let each one pay $125 for each child they have in school. With approximately 1100 students this will raise over $137,000 for teachers’ salaries. 3) When I was in school, parents helped the students raise money for travel to track meets, science fairs, field trips, and other outside activities. We did not ask our parents to persuade the tax makers to raise property taxes so we could have these thing without an effort on our part.
There were no “free rides” when I went to high school. Heck, we (the students) even paid for our senior trip to New York for five days. We sold donuts, gave dances in the school gym, had cake walks and school bazaars to raise money to go on, trips.
Are we so “high class” that raising money these ways is degrading? Where are the concerned parents when the baseball diamond needs work, the track field needs clearing and resurfacing, the soccer field need stones removed, cutting, edged, and weeded? Are we so proud that we have to pay a
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