The cards are on the table, for those who want to see them. SAMOHI is dying. From board members to parents hopeful to get a spot in the new small school, all are eager to smack one more nail in SAMO's coffin. As a parent relishes on the 25 kids to one teacher ratio, another likes the smallness of a taxpayer-funded boutique school.
Tell me folks. Very recently the School District was crying the blues to the city of Santa Monica, which is how the investigation on Tim Walker started. I would love for my kid to go to a small school. Moreover, I would love SAMOHI not to have to run fund-raising for materials, music or whatever else. Our taxes seem to be doomed to go to this small school; a school like a private one, for only a few kids,whose parents may not be willing to pay for private schools.
My son tells me the School District is cutting back on
teachers, counselors and other staff at SAMO. They expect 500 students
fewer. Golly! What a coincidence! Or is this demographics? If so, why
one more school?
The question that remains unanswered is:
Why don't they cut administrators from the Pupil-Free Day Office, the bloated Ed. Services and Student Services?
They don't want to. This is an Excellent District for the Practice of Cynicism and Hypocrisy. Fly not a kite, but a real school. Don't tell a math teacher at SAMO,
"We don't have money for this software; besides it's too advanced for SAMOHI kids."
Let's bet on SAMOHI's death: slow or fast? Democratic
schools are dinosaurs. Let's salute the fashionable small school
solution and swallow a get lost if we didn't get in.
Just drop me a note at [email protected]
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