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To: swampfox98
In my own area, we are building five new schools to accommodate the influx of illegals' children

You have a growing school-age population? Ours is declining. Nonetheless, the School District is taxing us to death to replace all of their buildings this decade except the 2 they built last decade.

Because of that, I'm not convinced the school building frenzy around the country has much to do with immigration or the number of children at all. I think it's about the NEA demanding new sparkley environments for their teachers to work in, where each teacher has their own classroom and own office.

A common complaint we heard at the High School (98-02) was from 'teachers with a cart'. They had to complain to every parent at every opportunity that they couldn't provide a quality class because they didn't have their own classroom - they had a cart that they had to take from room to room. Personally, I thought it was great that we were using most of the rooms all day, even if the teachers were only teaching 4 out of 8 periods...

44 posted on 02/14/2004 11:41:18 AM PST by Kay Ludlow
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To: Kay Ludlow
Because of that, I'm not convinced the school building frenzy around the country has much to do with immigration or the number of children at all. I think it's about the NEA demanding new sparkley environments for their teachers to work in, where each teacher has their own classroom and own office.

That is true also. But Bush visited us (our city) and told us we needed to get ourselves in the mind frame to educate illegals. So I think there is a double whammy going on in education against parents and tax payers.

45 posted on 02/14/2004 11:51:44 AM PST by swampfox98 (Beyond 2004 - Chaos)
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