They pay way more per student in some areas where they just fail to educate anywhere near like Virginia Beach.

Problem is, the gaurdians of the education funding could care less about that. They’re driven by selfish motives just as many bureaucrats are.

What is the purpose of our educational system? To educate students………… I thought. The VEA must not see it that way. It must also be some kinda slush fund for special interests.

(Just ignore the nonsense in that article about Iowa’s SAT Scores. Iowa is a ACT state, not and SAT state, so only about 3% of Iowa students — those who intend to go to a college that requires SATs — take the test.)

The VEA arguing against spending money in the class room!!!

Keep in mind…..I don’t like McDonnell and hope I can force myself to vote for Deeds. HRTA champion McDonnell gets no prize from me on solving transportation or any other issue.

Further, Speech & language pathologists are “in classroom” in my opinion. So are special education support.

Counselors and social workers? What are social workers doing in schools? Why is the education budget supporting them? A counselor or other administrative staff are more than capable of calling social services and have them visit the school.

I have not read McDonnell’s proposal. I don’t like McDonnell, just on the face of it, Boitnott’s attack piece is FAR disappointing and something I can’t support.

As we close down elementary schools in Virginia Beach due to over capacity, it is hard for me to rationalize increasing spending. At least locally. Statewide, maybe there is an arguement. Not from Boitnott though!

Do we have a transportation problem? Do we? No really, do we? Because Bob and Democrats both say we do. If we don’t, then fine. We don’t need to raid the general fund which should not be confused with a fund soley to fund education that is never “on the table” for cuts and thereby subject to all kinds of bloat.

It is HEALTHY to make occasional cuts in EVERY budget. Special Interests don’t give a damn about emergencies if it threatens, even temporarily, their percentage of what they insist should be an ever increasing pie.

I mean really, when the VEA comes out argueing that increased spending directly related to the classroom is near meaningless, then there is a horible problem of waste. They deserve immediate cuts and the self-interested motivations of the unions need to be put under the microsope.