Budget Cuts 2010-The Chicken Comes Home To Roost

Now that the free ride DPS has enjoyed over the last few years has ended it is time to see just what the administration at the central office can come up with in the way of budget cuts. I’m not expecting too much since no one in the ice palace has ANY experience in trimming a budget. They have been feeding so long at the public trough, hoodwinking the city council, that it will be interesting to see if they even know where to begin. The school board hasn’t a clue, they have proved that time and time again. It is so easy to deceive them that it would come as no surprise that they are sitting there staring at the ceiling wondering what needs to be done.
A logical step (oops no hope there…..) would be to get input from the front line troops. But of course the queens would never do that, it makes too much sense. And we all know what happens to common sense in DPS.
Well since DPS can’t seem to do it I am encouraging teachers, employees, parents, and plain citizens to write in with ideas of how to cut the budget. Send your suggestions to savetheschools2@aol.com and they will be reviewed, evaluated, and the best ones printed in a future blog. As always your names will be protected since we all know how DPS central administrators respond to being upstaged (off with their heads…..). The deadline will be March 1 so they can be read through and evaluated prior to the school board meeting again.
So that’s your homework folks. It’s a shame you have to do it but no one else will. Remember that the only way true savings can be attained is by eliminating programs and PEOPLE. Eighty percent of the budget is located in those areas and only twenty percent is in materials and fixed costs (utilities, etc.).
Get writing and submit your ideas. Remember the budget must be cut and the Concrete Castle Yahoos are not up to the task simply because they don’t understand the task! Keep your responses to three or four of the most important cuts. Remember “DPS----An Underachieving School District”.

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A school board member is now running for city council. Hmmm lets get this straight if you are a failure at one job that qualifies you for another? Might as well run for Congress…they have the same philosophy. Please citizens of Danville, don’t let this cancer spread. Cut it out now. I suggest a new bumper sticker “DPS---Screwing Up Education since 2000”. I’m sure they would soon be sold out………………