Friday, February 24, 2006
A Way You Can Oppose School Bond Referendums With Total Intellectual Integrity
Mary Liebman is the Bull Valley woman who promoted year-round schools. Sadly, no local school district has adopted her idea.
It’s a simple one.
Use the schools throughout the year.
Can you think of any other huge buildings that are not used year-round? (OK, with the exception of Illinois completely finished Thomson maximum security prison.) What business closes for a quarter of the year?
It makes no sense from a utilization of resources point of view for either the private or the public sector.
So, if you want to increase the number of students that a school building can hold, what do you do?
You decided to use the all year round.
That increases the capacity by one-third, doesn’t it?
A school district would not have to increase your taxes to construct new buildings.
Of course, people will object.
Change is tough to accept. (My family would love to be able to take vacations sometime other than in the summer. After all, we in Crystal Lake live in a prime vacation destination of summers past. For example, former Secretary of State Mike Howlett told me he used to spend summers on the lake.)
The kids would go to school the same number of days, get enough time to go on vacation between quarters. And, they would get one quarter of the year off, just like now, except it would not always be in the summer.
It’s a simple one.
Use the schools throughout the year.
Can you think of any other huge buildings that are not used year-round? (OK, with the exception of Illinois completely finished Thomson maximum security prison.) What business closes for a quarter of the year?
It makes no sense from a utilization of resources point of view for either the private or the public sector.
So, if you want to increase the number of students that a school building can hold, what do you do?
You decided to use the all year round.
That increases the capacity by one-third, doesn’t it?
A school district would not have to increase your taxes to construct new buildings.
Of course, people will object.
Change is tough to accept. (My family would love to be able to take vacations sometime other than in the summer. After all, we in Crystal Lake live in a prime vacation destination of summers past. For example, former Secretary of State Mike Howlett told me he used to spend summers on the lake.)
The kids would go to school the same number of days, get enough time to go on vacation between quarters. And, they would get one quarter of the year off, just like now, except it would not always be in the summer.
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Another great piece Cal. If teachers would be paid the same as they are now and finally work 12 months a year instead of 9 they would be getting paid for what they are worth for once.
Why should they be paid more? The average teacher in 2004 - 2005 was paid $59,000 dollars a year for 9 months work. That salary is certainly fair for 12 months work. Review the average salaries of workers in Illinois and the average salaries of families in Illinois and you will find that the average salaries of teachers is more. With their current salaries I believe they should be working 12 months a year instead of 10.
The current rate of spending in schools and the obligation of the TRS can not be maintained by Illinois residents. The system will implode eventually. You would think at least one math teacher in the State of Illinois could figure that out.
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The current rate of spending in schools and the obligation of the TRS can not be maintained by Illinois residents. The system will implode eventually. You would think at least one math teacher in the State of Illinois could figure that out.
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