Btango fantastic job and I second what Buddy said. Please correct me if I am wrong as this is just my opinion from what you previously mentioned here.
From what I am reading ACS was doing a good job with Budget prior to the merger giving them $2million in reserves plus they were spending a great deal per child which I think you will agree was a good thing.
SCS couldn't get it's act together from a financial standpoint even then causing them to struggle inevitably causing the merger between ACS and SCS in 1997 and allowing SCS access to the $2million.
Since 1997 the SCS board has essentially continued to fail all schools and not only draining that reserve but also not doing the necessary items to improve the education of our county schools which also includes ACS.
Even now the people you spoke with are not happy with the closure of ACS and believe there are other options and this is a severe and drastic measure, which seems to be a drastic measure.
Again from what you wrote I believe I understand why the people of the community voted down the proposed tax because of the proven inability to manage funds.
What REALLY concerns me is I have not heard anything in regards to a plan through this process on how our education system is going to get better. Closing AHS and SSHS is not going to make our education system better. They are promising teachers will keep there jobs through this process and I honestly believe that is hogwash. Building 2 new state of the art schools is not going to improve our education system. You put makeup on a pig it's still a pig. Opening a stem magnet school is not going to help our schools get better academically. Bring in better teachers for a magnet why not bring in better teachers for our schools lol.
The fundamental problem of our county one is the board hopefully this one is better but by following the history of it I personally don't think it will be. Too much bias and politics for that to happen. That is what is killing our schools. If you read what you wrote everything goes right back to the same problem.
From what I am reading ACS was doing a good job with Budget prior to the merger giving them $2million in reserves plus they were spending a great deal per child which I think you will agree was a good thing.
SCS couldn't get it's act together from a financial standpoint even then causing them to struggle inevitably causing the merger between ACS and SCS in 1997 and allowing SCS access to the $2million.
Since 1997 the SCS board has essentially continued to fail all schools and not only draining that reserve but also not doing the necessary items to improve the education of our county schools which also includes ACS.
Even now the people you spoke with are not happy with the closure of ACS and believe there are other options and this is a severe and drastic measure, which seems to be a drastic measure.
Again from what you wrote I believe I understand why the people of the community voted down the proposed tax because of the proven inability to manage funds.
What REALLY concerns me is I have not heard anything in regards to a plan through this process on how our education system is going to get better. Closing AHS and SSHS is not going to make our education system better. They are promising teachers will keep there jobs through this process and I honestly believe that is hogwash. Building 2 new state of the art schools is not going to improve our education system. You put makeup on a pig it's still a pig. Opening a stem magnet school is not going to help our schools get better academically. Bring in better teachers for a magnet why not bring in better teachers for our schools lol.
The fundamental problem of our county one is the board hopefully this one is better but by following the history of it I personally don't think it will be. Too much bias and politics for that to happen. That is what is killing our schools. If you read what you wrote everything goes right back to the same problem.