They are worried about programs being cut. Which ones? Like maybe breakfast, lunch and dinner at school?
Keep reading, writing, math, science, history and geography. The krap such as environmental protection and politcal indoctrination can go. I’d even say physical fitness can be cut; if you don’t want your kid to grow up fat, take the Nintendo and Wii from him, make him get up off the couch and go out for a walk. And if the parents want organized sports, they can put together the teams. Why should taxpayer funds for education be used to pay for a new field or arena for the high schoolers to play sports in.
Here in S Jersey it seemed like 90% of the budgets were failing when I checked on line.
Teachers are getting fired as well as facing pay pressure. In most cases administrators atre not taking any real cuts, and NJ school districts are incredibly top heavy.
There has to be fiscal control, we can’t keep spending the moon. But there will be a backlash at some point as classes get larger and quality suffers.