PVUSD poised to make 'horrendous' budget cuts - Santa Cruz Sent...

Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel Pajaro Valley Unified School District teachers and their families protest upcoming budget cuts at a rally along Soquel Drive at Trout Gulch Road Tuesday.

[KEEPINGITMOREREA L]

Ha I'm first!

One thing to say.....PVUSD SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKK KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

[PVUSD teacher]

If you can read this, thank a teacher!

[Dan Young]

We're at the end of 8 years of Republican punishment for voting down vouchers. "No Child Left with a Soul" is the real cause of the crisis in education. There will be no relief until a Democratic president is in the White House and the state governor's seat.

[Karma]

PVUSD teacher wrote:

If you can read this, thank a teacher!

But not a Pajaro teacher.

[Scooter]

Time for Aptos Schools to reopen talks about splitting away from the Pajaro District, which has been illustrated to be fiscally irresponsible, morally corrupt and warped by politicos. Without any serious local intervention, the district, with its unprecedented deficit, is due to be taken over by the state.

[matt tarpy]

yeah...aptos...take advantage of the vulnerability of the district and do your racist end run now! sad times for schools - be they well run or not...

[pull the race card]

Scooter wrote:

Time for Aptos Schools to reopen talks about splitting away from the Pajaro District, which has been illustrated to be fiscally irresponsible, morally corrupt and warped by politicos. Without any serious local intervention, the district, with its unprecedented deficit, is due to be taken over by the state.

ya right...the pvusd will NEVER let aptos schools go and we all know why AND we all know that the all so ever popular "RACE CARD" will be pulled when they do try to make a move to break away

it'll never happen

[Pan bimbo]

Scooter wrote:

Time for Aptos Schools to reopen talks about splitting away from the Pajaro District, which has been illustrated to be fiscally irresponsible, morally corrupt and warped by politicos. Without any serious local intervention, the district, with its unprecedented deficit, is due to be taken over by the state.

Well, things are very complicated, but it is essentially the Aptos influence that has dominated the decision making processes (and who is senior district management) in recent years. Over the years several proposals have been made to get rid of the "three zone" structure of the district, pointing out it replicates bureaucracies, impedes instructional reform, creates redundant operations, and wastes huge amounts of money. The proposals to do away with the zone structures have always been resisted; the political ramifications from politically powerful Aptos factions are apparently too fearful to district decision-makers.

Said more simply, the zone structure is the response to the Aptos secession movements, it wastes money, and is one of the central reasons that the district has more critical financial challenges than other similar districts.

[Harry Merkin]

It is amazing the Hispanic illegal aliens can show up to celebrate Cinco De Mayo and turn out in droves to rally against any anti-illegal immigrant legislation but when PVUSD Teachers needed a little help around the classroom they are nowhere to be found.

Driving down Soquel Dr late this afternoon I saw a lot of people protesting the tax cuts for PVUSD. What I did notice was that I did not see ONE Hispanic parent standing on the corner of Soquel Dr and Trout Gulch today. Not one. All were Caucasian Americans. For PVUSD schools to have upwards of 96% Hispanic the turnout represented today by Hispanics was nowhere near that level. More like 0%. If this burden of teaching the Non-English Speaking and Illegal Alien culture of Central America was on the shoulders of their employers and/or their home country don't you think that PVUSD would have the money.

Don't blame Arnold. Blame yourselves for not enforcing Prop. 187. Blame the Agenda the Liberal Forced Diversity Proponents have forced upon us in this county. The legal immigrants like those in the Cupertino School District are welcome and are excelling. The Illegal Aliens here are only sucking the well dry. By the way the well has gone dry.

You want to take away sports, art, music, and English out of the Public School System so the children of Illegal Aliens can attend my public schools. Sorry. What will be next? Math? Reading?

You all know what needs to be done. Start protesting on the doorsteps of Driscols, McCormick’s and other corporate farms and the local contractors who employ the illegals.

The Cupertino School district has done something right.

You want your jobs? Your Money? You know what needs to be done.

Harry Merkin

Soon to be elected…

[Not a race issue]

Aptos doesn't want to break away from PVUSD because of racial issues and anyone claiming that is simply using the race card because it's the best card in the deck to use.
For one Aptos is geographically so far from Watsonville compared to most district boundaries. It makes no sense for them to continue a relationship in the district especially when the Watsonville area and schools are growing and could easily function without Aptos schools. They would save a ton of money just by deleting the buses from Watsonville to Aptos schools. And most importantly the testing issue and the issue of being at risk for a state takeover. Look at Rio Del Mar Elementary in Aptos. The only non-feeder school with NO children bused in from Watsonville with test scores off the chart. If all Aptos schools were as independent from Watsonville imagine the results. Distinguished schools across the board I'm sure. This is not an issue of diversity it is an issue of education and Aptos children and their parents deserve the chance to be free from that shameless administration and forced diversity of the PVUSD. The district doesn't care about the children in Aptos because if they did they would set these schools free and give these children who actually WANT a good education (and the parents of those children who try desperately in vain with fundraisers and volunteering) a chance to succeed.

[Anayeli]

Question? Can a newly formed district start out as a Basic Aid district?

[Harry Merkin]

Not a race issue wrote:

Aptos doesn't want to break away from PVUSD because of racial issues and anyone claiming that is simply using the race card because it's the best card in the deck to use.
For one Aptos is geographically so far from Watsonville compared to most district boundaries. It makes no sense for them to continue a relationship in the district especially when the Watsonville area and schools are growing and could easily function without Aptos schools. They would save a ton of money just by deleting the buses from Watsonville to Aptos schools. And most importantly the testing issue and the issue of being at risk for a state takeover. Look at Rio Del Mar Elementary in Aptos. The only non-feeder school with NO children bused in from Watsonville with test scores off the chart. If all Aptos schools were as independent from Watsonville imagine the results. Distinguished schools across the board I'm sure. This is not an issue of diversity it is an issue of education and Aptos children and their parents deserve the chance to be free from that shameless administration and forced diversity of the PVUSD. The district doesn't care about the children in Aptos because if they did they would set these schools free and give these children who actually WANT a good education (and the parents of those children who try desperately in vain with fundraisers and volunteering) a chance to succeed.

Not really off the charts. Rio Del Mar would rank only 17th out 21 in the Cupertino School District. But a good school never the less. The Cupertino School District is filled with legal immigrants from the Suez Canal to Hong Kong and is one of the best in the State. Saying the down fall of the PVUSD has little to do with schooling the children of illegal aliens is down right being deaf and blind to the issue. It is not a racist statement saying so. It is a fact and the main reason PVUSD and the State Public School System is failing. I would be banging down the door at Driscoll's and McCormick's right now demanding they take care of their own employees children. I'd be asking local contractors to cough up extra money to pay for their employees. I would stop going to eating establishments that hire illegal aliens and let them know why. As one man on here wrote, "take down the bird feeder". Celebrate Diversity, Yes. Force this Liberal Forced Diversity Agenda on our children, No.

Harry Merkin

[Harry Merkin]

Anayeli wrote:

Question? Can a newly formed district start out as a Basic Aid district?

Who is going to pay for this "Aid"?

Driscoll's, McCormick's, Farmers, Resturaunts, and General Contractors?

Not me!

[Aptos Parent]

I'm just amazed that Aptos is always the bad guy for some people - that we aren't allowed to care about the education of our own children in our own community, and we must put other student's needs above our own. What is so wrong with wanting the best? Isn't that what every parent wants, or are we in Aptos not allowed that luxury?

Zones provide autonomy and articulation for ALL THREE AREAS. Redundant Bureaucracy? No way - there are too many schools and too much distance for just two zone administrators (elementary and secondary and alternative schools) You want things to go backwards and education to get worse, get rid of zones, which provide more ability for instructional reform, not less.

Aptos doesn't dominate anything in the PVUSD. The entire thrust of the district is to improve student achievement, get out of program improvement and teach English, none of which are Aptos issues.

Stop blaming Aptos, stop trying to punish Aptos and stop doing a "pity-party" for the Watsonville kids, who are just as smart and can learn if they are taught - start expecting excellence from all students in the PVUSD.

(A new district cannot be Basic Aid)

[Pat Kittle]

"Reconquista" if you don't already know, is an attitude most (not all!) Mexicans have toward "taking over" the US.

<http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Quote... ;

A few direct quotes:

"We have an aging white America.They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population... I love it. They are sh----ng in their pants with fear. I love it... we have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."
-- Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas

"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."
-- Excelsior - The national newspaper of Mexico

"We are practicing La Reconquista in California."
-- Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General

"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos...non-Latinos aren't watching, they aren't raising questions"
-- Fernando Guerra, professor, Loyola Marymount

"Republica del Norte," the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is "an inevitability." The new "Hispanic homeland" should be brought into being "by any means necessary."
-- Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexico

"... you are like the generals who command armies! We're in a state of war!"
-- Armando Navarro, professor, University of California

"Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die.... Through love of having children, we are going to take over."
-- Augustin Cebeda, Brown Berets

Of course, we dumb gringos are supposed to pretend we don't notice any of this. Our job is to cave in to all their demands, no questions asked.

[RobtA]

If PVUSD did not educate the children of illegal immigrants, what would be its budget numbers? Certainly there would be staff layoffs, due to the reduced need. So the district staff would be smaller, either way; I am only wondering about the money. Perhaps it is not a big difference. Perhaps it is. But I don't think we'll be seeing a reliable, dispassionate analysis from anyone.

For that matter, if properties were taxed according to the size of the workforce required to service the properties, then farm taxes would be higher. Too bad for the farmers, but it might pay for the costs imposed on the rest of society.

[disabuser]

We should get rid of all Basic Aid districts by subjecting all property tax allocations to the state revenue limits allocations. I believed Gray Davis proposed as much but the legislators from the Peninsula, home to a disproportionate number of such districts killed it. And we should get rid of the other relics of the past that lead to unequal funding.

I believe the district proposed pay and a benefit cuts as well as furloughs that applied to certificated, classified and management equally. It appears that the union is ready to make sure some people have no jobs rather than share the pain.

[RobtA]

Comparisons to Cupertino, regarding immigration, are far off the point. Cupertino has a very high percentage of college-educated parents (often, both parents, with advanced degrees). In fact, Cupertino has a higher portion of children with college-eduated parents than do nearly all "white nativist" communities. I should point out that the kinds of corporations served by the Cupertino workforce are among the leaders in outsourcing and shipping capital resources to other nations. If that's what you want, go for it.

[Pan bimbo]

Aptos Parent wrote:

and we must put other student's needs above our own.

1. Students' not student's
2. I worry for my country. They are all "our" children.

[jarbee]

"Among the long list of items on the chopping block as of Tuesday were libraries, nurses, elementary science teachers, more than 100 jobs held by bus drivers, secretaries, cafeteria workers and other classified employees"

I hope the teachers union is negotiating on behalf of teachers and is letting somebody else represent the cafeteria workers and bus drivers. I'm tired of always seeing this district lump teachers together with these other jobs that could probably be contracted out. Administrators don't ever list themselves with these other workers. That tells me how much the leaders respect teachers. Do students see teachers the same as cafeteria workers?