Friday, February 23, 2007

Budget Cuts

A controversial topic related to education is budget cuts. It is something happening all the time and either curriculum is being cut, salary is being cut, or releasing staff and/or curriculum. I feel that money should be budgeted to fit more of school needs then something not as important to school. The goverenment is trying to crack down on making education better and increasing scores, etc. but it is hard to do those things when they are not allowing us the funds to do this. We need to rely on education and not other systems that already have funding and get more funding. I think that we, as future teachers, need to find ways to help increase budgets and help keep programs going and allow us to get the things we need to be good teachers!

2 comments:

Associate Professor of Education, Luther College said...

Cassidy,

Any ideas on how the money could be generated? Taxpayers aren't too excited about having their taxes raised and nobody likes other services cut either. We do need to find ways to pay teachers better and to provide the best affordable education for our children.

I appreciate your thoughts on this important topic.

Dr. Langholz

Troy Kowalski said...

I think it was very interesting that you wrote about budget cuts. I think that this topic has brought up very difficult decisions for the school board. It is also a very hard decision to make to keep a strong education.