Editor:
Just about everyone involved with education will say, “It’s all about the kids.”
That may be true when budgets are flush, but when hard times come and sacrifices need to be made, it seems that those closest to the kids, teachers and classroom aides are the ones who feel the most pain.
It seems to me that administrators should also step up to the plate and make the same concessions they ask the frontline educators to make. Under the current model, those furthest removed from the classroom are the least affected by budget cuts and freezes.
I realize that unions and contracts are involved for the certified, classified and administrative employees, but if administrators took a voluntary pay cut, it would certainly set the example and help make a bitter pill easier to swallow for those who work directly with kids every day.
It certainly will not cure a $1.5 million shortfall, but it does send the message to all staff that, “We are in this together, and it really is all about the kids.”
Kenneth R. England
Sweet Home