North Carolina Wake County Schools Failing Grade with Parents & Students

North Carolina Wake County schools may have gone too far when passing a one hour early release on Wednesdays adding up to ten minutes on the other days to make up for the hourly loss. This is said to begin in July of 2009. What's the red flags to the new changes coming soon?

The Wake County board members are slipping our children the mickey in order to save money. Wake County's Superintendent Del Burns gets around $280,000 yearly in salary according to Wral.com. The Wake County school board is looking for at least $115,000 in additional cuts and wants to increase the numbers of children per class to reduce the numbers of teachers needed.

Do you see it yet? Teachers will lose their jobs, and students will not learn as much if placed in classrooms in higher numbers. It's a fact, pure and simple.

The Wake County Superintendent and other highly paid Wake County school board members would rather school employees give up their personal heaters, fans, coffee makers and anything to do with electrical cost than taking a true financial cut.

Let's do the math. The only thing that the Wake County Superintendent is giving up is not accepting a 3-percent salary increase (about $1,800) - a drop in the Superintendent Del Burns' bucket. Perhaps the $115,000 can be cut from the Superintendents salary since Burns would still rake in $165,000 in yearly salary. That way they do not have to pay as much in taxes, something positive to consider.

Making sense by finding cents through pay cuts of the overpaid Wake County school board members and Superintendent seems more logic than turning family lives upside down, not to mention creating more stress on the busing situation by moving children to far distances. But the big one is reassignment imposed on families which lead children lost in the mix.

In 2008 the poor decision making of the Wake County school board hit hard within our community from traditional to year round with a slew of Wake County reassignment plans taking children outside of their communities up to forty minutes away.

Something stinks in the state of North Carolina, and it's not the sewer plant.

Wral news covered this event live in 2008 with a crowd of approximately 200. By way of microphone I poured my concerns from ridiculous gas guzzling, the uprooting changes that children can become lost within to the Wake County school board doing what's best for the board and not for the children. "Today a star quarterback, tomorrow taking second string. Today on the Year Book committee, tomorrow starting from scratch."

And these are the paths the Wake County school system has in store for North Carolina's future. I requested that my sophomore son should not be moved from a school five minutes away to forty minutes away.

The down and dirty spokesman and main player for the Wake County school board simply said, "I don't know anything about that reassignment" and ignored the facts.

Months later, we received a Wake County reassignment plan for my son to attend the school forty minutes away. Another transfer is on tap.

Upon today, Wral.com reports that the Wake County school system can not afford to buy the buses that they planned upon, the irony.

Wake County school board receives failing grades from parents and students, for no child nor teacher should play as a bargain chip to ease past poor financial decisions created by a school board, the same school board members that created these problems from the get go.

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