Comments on: State budget countdown: Overtime! http://whatiknow.freedomblogging.com/2009/07/01/state-budget-countdown-overtime/2899/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:06:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Rick Russell http://whatiknow.freedomblogging.com/2009/07/01/state-budget-countdown-overtime/2899/#comment-1333 Rick Russell Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:41:55 +0000 http://whatiknow.freedomblogging.com/?p=2899#comment-1333 It's july 2nd, the sky didn't fall, we aren't dropping like flies, riots aren't breaking out on every street corner. A few people will be inconvenienced, but aside from a bunch of rude and arrogant people ordering us around, little has changed, even though we lack a budget. Live with this a while, then decide what we really, really, need beyond it. Then restore about half of it, just to be sure we really, really want it. Fact is that most of government is an unnecessary waste of time and money. We've got the minimum, let's add back to it sparingly, carefully, and minimally. It’s july 2nd, the sky didn’t fall, we aren’t dropping like flies, riots aren’t breaking out on every street corner. A few people will be inconvenienced, but aside from a bunch of rude and arrogant people ordering us around, little has changed, even though we lack a budget. Live with this a while, then decide what we really, really, need beyond it. Then restore about half of it, just to be sure we really, really want it.

Fact is that most of government is an unnecessary waste of time and money. We’ve got the minimum, let’s add back to it sparingly, carefully, and minimally.

]]> By: Delite Gaddie http://whatiknow.freedomblogging.com/2009/07/01/state-budget-countdown-overtime/2899/#comment-1325 Delite Gaddie Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:14 +0000 http://whatiknow.freedomblogging.com/?p=2899#comment-1325 As a charter school founder, I found watching the budget session until 3:00 am at times amusing and then ignorant. Legislators demanding that teachers have "rights", that the size of classrooms should be one teacher to 14 students! I have my fourth grade class picture which has 36 students and one teacher. It is ludicrous to suggest that class sizes have to be 14 students in order for great learning to go on. Legislators were whinning that this budget would mean we would be forced to have class sizes with one teacher and 24 students. Give me a break! I have been in the school business for over 40 years, the private/charter school business, and have hired and fired hundreds of teachers. The very best teachers who take their children two or three academic grade levels in one year, inthe basics, say the size of the class does't matter. In the beginning grades, teachers do need aids to reduce the teacher/student ratio in order to listen to each child read everyday. Arizona does not have any more money. You can't get money from strapped taxpayers. They have had enough. Cut the spending, even on schools, and get us out of debt. As a charter school founder, I found watching the budget session until 3:00 am at times amusing and then ignorant. Legislators demanding that teachers have “rights”, that the size of classrooms should be one teacher to 14 students!

I have my fourth grade class picture which has 36 students and one teacher. It is ludicrous to suggest that class sizes have to be 14 students in order for great learning to go on. Legislators were whinning that this budget would mean we would be forced to have class sizes with one teacher and 24 students. Give me a break!

I have been in the school business for over 40 years, the private/charter school business, and have hired and fired hundreds of teachers. The very best teachers who take their children two or three academic grade levels in one year, inthe basics, say the size of the class does’t matter. In the beginning grades, teachers do need aids to reduce the teacher/student ratio in order to listen to each child read everyday.

Arizona does not have any more money. You can’t get money from strapped taxpayers. They have had enough. Cut the spending, even on schools, and get us out of debt.

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