With all of the weird winter weather over the past nine weeks a decent number of school days have been missed by the children in Washington State.
We’re currently having huge discussions in this state about how to improve the education system, most of them focusing on how to get more tax money out of the citizens and upping the per-child dollar amount spent.
But if you look at SB 5395, you can tell that they don’t really care abot teaching the students better, only about getting more money for the school districts to flush down the toilet.
The bill basically says that if there were scheduled school days missed because of “an unforseen natural event” that the schools do not have to worry about losing funding if they don’t schedule the kids to make up the days at the end of the year.
The state specifies 1000 hours of instruction per year (equalling 180 scheduled days of school) and then counts the students attending each for those days and hands out the appropriate amount of taxmoney. Normally, if the schools cannot fulfill their end of the bargain to teach the children during days scheduled, even if that means days having to be added to the endof the year, then the state cuts back on moeny to the school.
But not anymore, accordong to 4 Republicans and 4 Democrats in the Washington State Senate. This bill will come up before the Senate Education Committee next Wednesday, at which time we’ll see just how serious the members of that committee are about getting little Johnny and Suzie educated instead of off to vacation on time.
Link found at Sound Politics where commenter “Walters” had a very good point
If we don’t have a fixed number of days for students to attend, let’s just have school 3 months out of the year and have 9 months off. When you amortize $36,000 over 90 days, the teachers make $12,000 a month. And there’s no concern for the WASL as the kids will never pass it anyway. Education will be fully funded regardless of the number of days per year even if it snows.
Unless you want an education for your child.