This would not happen if there was good budgeting by the school board. This would not happen if the board members (with one major exception) negotiate an insurance policy from MESSA to Blue Cross. This would not happen if the board did not spend its way into debt. MESSA alone will reduce the costs by 20%. This DOES happen since the board is attempting to pass the buck to Lansing instead of serving their constitutants who voted for them.
While these teachers have my sympathy, I am still voting no on the millage so, these board members are forced to have to take care of the MESSA problem. If this passes, we'll be in debt again in 3 years and have to deal with this all over again unless Lansing bails us all out.
We all need to tough it out now, to prepare for the future.
They could lay off 10 janitors and save the same amount of money.
This is how things go in public school systems. But my real question is did they cancel music and sports already? Do the administrators do the janitorial work. Are there no longer art programs, assemblies for diversity?
Now the next step is to lay off teachers by senority so that many of the younger new teachers are let go. Anything to screw the public into voting for what they want.
It's union scare tactic and the lefties on the school board are sleeping in the same bed. Brighton is experiencing huge growth, increasing enrollment, and an influx of additional new tax dollars from the home building boom going on there.
32 teachers is A LOT. Why were they hired in the first place last year? I realize school boards aren't as smart as they think they are but they aren't so dumb as not to count classrooms and students.