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Originally Posted by Laurie2
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Aw, c'mon. Of course they will cut teaching jobs, too.
Am I correct in assuming that just like other charter schools, they can run like a business but still get a chunk of the taxpayers' money that comes at the expense of local public school funding? If like other places, it is by head-count or ADM. If so, that will go back to the local schools. But, hey, I bet collecting rent is a lot more profitable.
If education were the true priority, an addition could be built and more teachers hired.
This is one aspect of TV that has always bothered me. The control the charter school wields over families' lives makes me sad. The kids are at the mercy of business decisions. Sacrificial lambs.
And now I must get out of here and refuse to engage with those who will come after me and try to make me dance in a conga line around the developer. I tried to keep my mouth shut. But education of our young people is close to my heart.
You-Will-Never-Guess-What-I-Did Laurie
PS: I like many things about how TV runs -- but this......at what point........
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It takes reading more than one article over time to know that the charter schools expanded hugely to accommodate the growth, by building and opening the huge Middle School campus whose length faces highway 466. At that time I remember reading they were building to accommodate 6 or 8 sections of each grade, compared to previously having 3-4, and the new campus included facilities for performing arts, music, etc.
I've read articles in the last couple of years stating that the growth was skyrocketing even with that expansion, and therefore the qualifying rules would start to rule out employees' children where the parent is working for (for example) an employer who is not leasing from or subcontracting for The Villages.
And about the too simplistic statement, "If education were the true priority, an addition could be built and more teachers hired"……
….If one looks at the Job Opportunities online for the charter schools, you now see this list of job openings due to the growth, and up until 2 weeks ago, this page had DOUBLE the number of new teacher and paraprofessional staff openings. Obviously they have hired for some of those positions, and these still remain.
Not everything can be summarized
and accused by one article in the Leesburg paper, which has its own readers' bias, too.
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