Too Many Pink Slips for California Teachers We Need to Keep

Soon CA will be last in per student spending.
Millions of illegal immigrants rushing the border every year and having LOTS of babies. Its your falt. Don't pass more taxes, stop the problem from coming over our border.

No cuts in spending?

Why don't you guys lead by example and return the pay raises you voted for yourselves in the legislature which took effect last fall?

Then, I'll take you more seriously...

I have to agree with with the last comment made. If we have to be forced to make sacrifices than it's only fair that you all do the same. Stop spending on your Dinners, Events, supposed business trips. Pay raises should only be given when the job gets done. From what I see the job is not even close to being done. If you are suppose to work for us than you need to come to us for a raise. It makes me sick to see all the this happening. Lead by example, everyone of you went into to politics to serve the people. Well than serve by leading and take a pay cut starting from the top. If this happens than maybe I can also take you seriously

I would hope that someone would work for the students' interest and prevent teachers from leaving in mass. I don't mind paying for the pencils, providing erasers, staying later to help students on my own, or working through lunch and break to tutor students on my own. I don't mind spending my weekends doing lesson plans, making charts, doing sentence strips and all that I need to do to keep the classroom going. I knew that this was part of the job. I did not know that, after devoting my like to being a teacher, I would repeatedly face layoffs due to buget cuts brought on by over spending and underplanning. Our state used to be the model of what education should look like. Now, it is the model of fear, regret, and among the least spent on education in the nation. I am so very disappointed to see things come to this state of affairs. I pray each day that changes will be made. I also pray that I will not be homeless nor so depressed that I fail to focus. I try not to cry but I do...both for the educational system and for myself as well. Please, please work together so that teachers will not become among the depressed, the tragic, the lost.

Lies, lies, lies. The total education budget is close to 50 billions/year, 4.8B is only 1/10 of that. How does that translate to 35% increase in class size? We have 310,000 teachers in California, are we going to lay off 100,000 to compensate for 10% budget cut? Just look at private schools, they spent $6K vs. $9K per student per year and they have to pay all of the facilities on top of teacher's salaries.

Oh this is great!
Wonder if the if each school district got rid of ESL classes...mind you all, that the FED'S once again have their hands in a situation they no nothing about. The unfortunate thing is each school district decides who they are going to "pink slip"!!!
Thank Arnold, your a real winner, you have no back bone ( his office number is 916-445-2841) and Pelosi which is waste of space on the chair she sits on...get your old butt out of office. Ask our government why they choose to tell CA. how they stimulus monies are to be spent....redoing the freeways?????????
I is a true shame what has happen to CA., growing up here (moved back after 10 years gone)I am ready to move out of this crap-hole state. word of advise....they are coming by the thousands and they will try a coup.

I have lived in California my whole life (19 years) and this is the worst California has ever been!!! Once I graduated high school I left California and went to another state for college because now looking at it, if I would have went to college in California, I would have been screwed. This is ridiculous. You're giving pink slips to teachers who have taught for a long time. But why cut teachers when we should start at the top!?!?! I dont get it! You can give yourselves raises without the rest of California's approval, but when i comes to making cuts in education which is important you don't even acknowledge us! If we lay off teachers in all levels of school, class sizes will be larger and that is unfair to those who have kids or even siblings. My brother who is in his first year of high school informed my family and I that 3 of his 7 teachers are being laid off!!! And i believe 2 or all of them are for Special ed!!! Now im being honest, my brother needs those special ed classes! So why in hell are you firing them when they are basically a neccessity?
Im not one to get pissed about much, but this is just so f*en ridiculous!
Not to be racist, but those who are crossing the border and dont pay taxes are what causing us to pay so much more, and not just in education! GET THEM THE F*** OUT OF CALIFORNIA!!!
Education is key to society! Why are we making a budget out of that when we should cut it out of somethin else!
Tell me why?!?!?!

I have lived in California my whole life (19 years) and this is the worst California has ever been!!! Once I graduated high school I left California and went to another state for college because now looking at it, if I would have went to college in California, I would have been screwed. This is ridiculous. You're giving pink slips to teachers who have taught for a long time. But why cut teachers when we should start at the top!?!?! I dont get it! You can give yourselves raises without the rest of California's approval, but when i comes to making cuts in education which is important you don't even acknowledge us! If we lay off teachers in all levels of school, class sizes will be larger and that is unfair to those who have kids or even siblings. My brother who is in his first year of high school informed my family and I that 3 of his 7 teachers are being laid off!!! And i believe 2 or all of them are for Special ed!!! Now im being honest, my brother needs those special ed classes! So why in hell are you firing them when they are basically a neccessity?
Im not one to get pissed about much, but this is just so f*en ridiculous!
Not to be racist, but those who are crossing the border and dont pay taxes are what causing us to pay so much more, and not just in education! GET THEM THE F*** OUT OF CALIFORNIA!!!
Education is key to society! Why are we making a budget out of that when we should cut it out of somethin else!
Tell me why?!?!?!

I have lived in California my whole life (19 years) and this is the worst California has ever been!!! Once I graduated high school I left California and went to another state for college because now looking at it, if I would have went to college in California, I would have been screwed. This is ridiculous. You're giving pink slips to teachers who have taught for a long time. But why cut teachers when we should start at the top!?!?! I dont get it! You can give yourselves raises without the rest of California's approval, but when i comes to making cuts in education which is important you don't even acknowledge us! If we lay off teachers in all levels of school, class sizes will be larger and that is unfair to those who have kids or even siblings. My brother who is in his first year of high school informed my family and I that 3 of his 7 teachers are being laid off!!! And i believe 2 or all of them are for Special ed!!! Now im being honest, my brother needs those special ed classes! So why in hell are you firing them when they are basically a neccessity?
Im not one to get pissed about much, but this is just so f*en ridiculous!
Not to be racist, but those who are crossing the border and dont pay taxes are what causing us to pay so much more, and not just in education! GET THEM THE F*** OUT OF CALIFORNIA!!!
Education is key to society! Why are we making a budget out of that when we should cut it out of somethin else!
Tell me why?!?!?!

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