Cuts Coming To Reynoldsburg School District

I hold teachers up to the same standard as anyone else that works.That’s what you guys have a problem with,I do not worship them.Just like in the private sector,you have great ones and horrible ones.
As far as riling the kids up-I’ve seen it with my own eyes.Just because it’s a rule that they not “campaign” does not mean that they honor that rule.
    I worked side by side with some of the best,that doesn’t mean that we have a budget that is endless in what we can pay.I do believe that administrators are way overpaid because they have several assistants to help them do many aspects of their job.We as a district are “top-heavy” with “bosses” at the expense of teachers that are always needed.
  You all can stop villifying me already as selfish kid and teacher hater,it simply isn’t so.I have always been an active victim,childrens and womens advocate.
I am a realist and we cannot continue old out-dated policies that cost too much money.Policies that are unfair (even unconstitutional),placing too much burden on the working poor homeowners and those that are retired having “paid their dues”.

WOW!  Reynoldsburg folks I feel for you.  There are people who blog against SWCS kids and now Reynoldsburg kids.  Don’t you wish people would stick to their own communities?

The proof is all around me and on the news/business section everyday.Lost jobs,pay cuts,unemployment,forclosures,etc.Call me names and call me bitter,bury your head in the sand.It won’t be long till you’re forced to deal with it too,unless you are a teacher with a long term contract!
  I am a mother,grandmother,gourmet cook and a gardener(that feeds the hungry in my neighborhood).I can and dehydrate food to save a few bucks.You can call me names for believing teachers are adequately payed,but a hater I am not.You are because I won’t just skip along with your program that’s a bottomless pit of money waste.

Whatsmore all of those things kids need to pad their college applications can still be done in a private sector donation of their time way.Taxpayers can not be expected to pay for everything that parents could attend to seeing that their children do.
  Why can you all deny the poverty that’s all around you?Take a short drive and have a look at Galloway and the surrounding community.People can’t even afford basic maintenance of their homes.Their kids run the streets while parents take on 2-3 jobs just to put food on the table.
  Where do you propose we get the money needed for pay raises?Don’t you think we"d like raises too?We payed to educate ourselves too and still find our jobs lost,even in technology as businesses move out of our state in staggering numbers.We can’t all be service people at Starbucks and expect to afford to consume products and services that create jobs and pay raises.

I don’t go to Starbucks,nor do I eat out.I can’t afford it! We’ve had our pay cut and insurance doubled.Our empoloyers no longer contribute to 401K’s,if you are lucky enough to still have any money in one(we do not)since the market crash.We pay inflated taxes on deflated property values already,as there are forclosures all over our neighborhood.Businesses are shut down and the far west side is a virtual wasteland.
  By the way it was just noted on the news last night that once kids get their higher educations,they leave the state of Ohio for places where their tax burden is not so great.
  I’m not worried about selling my home-I’m worried about keeping it as I watch families walk away from their homes daily in our neighborhood.But I’m supposed to prop up Grove City’s economy by funding extra curriculars and pork(yes pork).Schools don’t need 3-4 administrators,etc.
  If teachers want raises when they already make from 38-52 bucks an hour,then they will have to get rid of a few extras to accomplish that.
  No corporation could enter into contracts promising raises and stay solvent.That’s what we are saying.The district has been irresponsible with our tax dollars in the past.