School budget could prompt downsize in workforce

Should budget constraints require a reduction in force for Deming Public Schools staff, the district will be ready.

[Phyllis]

I have been noticing for a lot of years that our students have been graduated that can't even read or do simple math. Why is that? I have run across kids, working in public, that I have had to help do simple math. This was especially true when my kids were going to school. Kids are falling through the cracks because no rules in the school that are enforced and kids are NOT made responsible.

Teach these kids how to read and write. The basic fundamentals of life. Remember, all these kids that can't read, write or so simple math are going to run our country some day. How do you want them figuring your social security or retirement? Maybe you won't get any due to the fact they can't read or add.

If a RIF is necessary, get rid of the ones that don't teach. Start with the high school first. I know some there that needs to be let loose.

Think about it.

[Wildcat Watchdog]

When I went to school they did teach us the three 'R's' of Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic.

Towards the beginning of this past school year it was posted in the Deming Headlight that the school budget would pay out 87% for salaries. Now if I remember my aRithmetic correctly - that only leave 13% of the budget for equipment and supplies for the education of the children and maintenance for the facilities.

Somehow that seems slightly upside-down to me. I believe the outlay for salaries should be considerably lower than that for education and maintenance. We could probably start with a HUGE paycut for our extremely overpaid School Superintendant, Harvielee Moore, and cutting many of her 'perks' would help a lot, too. This community is NOT viable enough, financially, to afford her $123,000 per year salary, plus over $2000 per year clubs and membership fees, plus the fuel, insurance and maintenance on her gas hog SUV, plus her 5 or 6 Assistant Superintendants, plus 1 or 2 secretaries for each of them, plus the assistants they each have, plus, plus, plus ----- and we haven't even talked about the teachers being paid less than all those administrators and bearing the load of all the work that is actually done and with NO SUPPORT from all those administrators, either.

But then, we had the opportunity this past February to rid ourselves of some of the problem - but the same people were voted in just the same .....

It's time for Harvielee and the current school board to go away - It was time a long time ago - As long as they are still there the overspending and demoralization of teachers will continue ........