Deseret News | Reader comments: Meetings planned on Jordan-east transition

Reader comments
Meetings planned on Jordan-east transition

Wil | 6:22 a.m. May 5, 2008

What a joke.

tstu | 8:59 a.m. May 5, 2008

Hahahaha, "What a joke." says it all! How are they going to reduce class sizes? It's the same kids in the same cramped buildings! Hahahahahaha

Steve Jarvis | 11:56 a.m. May 5, 2008

tstu,

The East side has plenty of leg room for the majority of the students. They will not however have as much money to educate them since that is based on how many kids you actually have. I am really interested in how they will make up for the shortfall caused by the removal of the West side's overcrowded schools that have been anchoring the lower enrollment schools in the North East.

That is right. The West's larger cramped student population has been supplementing the East by spreading funds as an average. That means East schools have benefitted from extra money that they will now do with out. While it is true the East is going to eventually save property tax, they sacrificed funds that are for operations, curriculum and teacher salary.

Comments continue below

West Side Kids | 3:30 p.m. May 5, 2008

Many east side schools get a fair amount of their students from the west side. Take those west side kids out of the east side schools, and how many of those schools will have to close? Some parents were all for cutting themselves off from the west side. What they did not seem to realize is that they were also kicking west side kids out of the east side schools and, without them, some of those schools may not have enough students to remain open. Brilliant. Serves them right!!

Add your comment

Comments are monitored. Any comments found to be abusive, offensive, off-topic, misrepresentative, more than 200 words or containing URLs will not be posted.

Words Remaining

E-mail address: For internal use only. We may want to contact you to publish your comment (not your e-mail address) in the newspaper or for a separate story idea.