The Los Angeles Unified School District just approved its “doomsday budget” as a way to prepare for whatever financial situation may come.
The budget is ridiculous and should not go into effect because 5,000 teachers are at risk of layoff.
What does that mean?
Well, it means that class sizes will increase. There will be one teacher for every 36 students.
How can a single teacher attend to 36 kids at one time?
Students have special needs and should get the right to have one-on-one time with the teachers if they don’t understand the lesson, but with 35 other students in the class, it will be hard for the teacher to provide the help that every student requires.
Respected and beloved teachers will be let go, take with them their abilities and knowledge.
Teachers that have been dedicated and devoted to the education of their students will be forever gone.
Schools will also become less safe with all those layoffs.
There will be too many children and not enough adults to supervise them.
Students need to be constantly monitored and watched over for their own safety, but with less staff, the students will have the chance to create a dangerous environment for themselves.
With less staff members around the children, they won’t be able to receive as much counseling and health services as before.
“Our classes aren’t large enough,” Graham Elementary School teacher Maria Elena Ortiz said. “It’s hard to tend to each student’s needs and still get them ready for the state testing.”
The district is trying to save money, but in the long run, this will drastically affect the education of the children.
The children will get discouraged with school, since not a lot of help will be given to them and will not want to continue on to a university.
Some may not even receive the skills they need to be prepared for a university.
Is it really worth saving a little bit of money for the moment at the expense of the education of the leaders of tomorrow?
LAUSD already has a very high drop-out rate, this budget will only increase it.
Parents should be outraged by what the LAUSD is trying to do to their children and should take a stand by protesting and petitioning this budget.
We cannot let the education of the children crumble down to nothing.
