Originally Posted by
getalife123
Daisey Mae you brought me to tears. Let see after I thought it over I said what is wrong with this picture. So a teachers aide would have prevented the problems in that class. I don't think so. The problem there stems from the teacher not being able to control a couple of 9 year olds. Your solution is to dump into the class a macho Teacher aide to whip those kids into shape. I don't think that aide exists here maybe at Wende Correctional. Please don't tell me that you would have a problem dealing with a 9 year old. Many children do have problems, always have. Many bring their problems to school. We have resources for the troubled children such as, Social Workers, the Nurse, the Principal, the Guidance Councelor, child protection, PINS program, police, Special Ed, parent teacher/meetings and probably others that I don't know. Utilize the services that we already paid So your solution is to put two adults in a classroom. Nice try. Who pays for it, the taxpayer? If we need security to deal with the 9 year old we are in trouble. We do need teacher aides, they play an important role with some students that require special needs. But really do they all have to be political connected? I'll give you a short list, just of board members wives, Motyka, Miller, Chudzik, Joyce, Siuta and McNamara. There could others that I don't know. All the aides are political appointments and its has been going on forever. At an average cost of $26,000 per year with benefits for just 10 month of employment, for approximately 38 teacher aides. You do the math. Once they are hired they are there until they retire because of the their union. Nice huh, and you foot the bill even though many residents send their children to Catholic Schools (which is just another unofficial tax burden). I include myself here sending with my three going through the Catholic School System and then on to college. My children wouldn't even consider Lackawanna as a place to live and raise a family here primarily because of the schools. Knowing that they eventually would have to send their children to private schools. Back then it cost me eight thousand per year to send them to private school and I still had to pay my school taxes. I would have liked to have that money for other things but it was a decision that had to be made.
With enrollment down because of the Charter School this board of fools chose to hire 2 more aides both politically connected at the taxpayers expenses. Shame on the board of fools.