AlexanderHamiltonJC OP t1_its83pg wrote on October 25, 2022 at 10:33 PM

from u/R_At1antis I'm sympathetic to your drive for district accountability, but feel held hostage by the fact that the district's first response to budget shortfalls is to lay off teachers, as they did as recently as 2019. How will you ensure that the budget discipline you propose will not impact my child's Pre-K classroom?

Teacher layoffs are not the first place, as you mentioned, we should be looking at as far as our budget is concerned. We need to find wasteful spending and mismanagement. I do not classify teachers as either.

R_At1antis t1_itu820m wrote on October 26, 2022 at 10:41 AM

Thanks, I appreciate the response, but this does not quite answer my question as the board does not necessarily decide if the district will choose to conduct layoffs rather than cut wasteful spending to favored contractors or nepotism.

Perhaps a better a way to ask this question: Why were teacher layoffs required in 2019 and were they justified?

Ultimately for those of us with children at PS16, as long as the school levy increases are not higher than private school tuition for two children, it doesn’t seem worth risking seeking economies, no matter how justified they might be. Curious for any feedback you may have.