Comments about ‘Jordan's money woes in spotlight’

While it was said by the Governor the split was a mistake, he is unwilling to take action till next year after his improvement in education task force is upp in running. Sorry Governor. We need someone who not only knows something is wrong, but is willing to take action. We need a governor who won't play politics. We need Peter Caroon.

of the self-destructive nature of conservative politics. First the school district split, due to, essentially, selfishness.

Next up, the citizens of the JSD who are ideologically paralyzed & unable to part with a whopping $10 to educate the children in their own community.

An astounding display of group selfishness & stupidity. How embarassing... and tragic.

This is ridiculous. Schools should never be cut no matter what. Goverment look elsewhere you are going to be ruining the lives of our future leaders. Lets fix this problem instead of cutting from education and never giving back to it. They are the last ones to get money and the first ones cut.

Cut the Superintendent's salary down to $125,000--that is reasonable salary for his responsibilities in a district of this size and puts his salary in line with other superintendents of districts this size.

No other administrator should be making any more than $100,000. Their salary should be capped there. Anyone making above needs to have their salary reduced. You can live comfortably in Utah on a salary of $100,000.

You don't need to cut sports or other programs per se--let's not push the panic button--but you can freeze budgets or if times are really tough, zero out the budgets and require programs to fundraise their money. Eliminating these programs would hurt Jordan schools in the end as their best and brightest students would leave for districts that still had these programs.

Furlough some days thus spreading the pain across all the district.

Make administrators teach classes. Each administrator goes into the classroom at least a period per day (secondary) or one and a half hour (elementary) to help reduce class size without cutting teachers and eliminating prep periods.

Remember who the legislators were that voted to allow this mess to happen and vote them out!

Legislators let this happen and they need to go.

Vote them out in November!

This is a joke. A stunt by teachers. Regardless of what the cause for the cuts, or whether it should happen, there is no excuse for teachers and administrators to allow students to act out like this. This is manipulation of the students for teachers benefit. If this is how the teachers control and teach them, the teachers SHOULD be fired,

"The Writer" should become a reader! The walk out was planned by students thinking for themselves and organized through facebook and texts. I did this when I was a teen when a beloved coach was fired. It worked too! Teens are smarter than we give them credit. The vote to split should have allowed everyone to vote not just the Canyons folks. I don't live in either district but know when people have been thrown under the (school) bus when I see it.

The only class these students missed was detention.

Thank you Sen. Walker. You are a class-act and made a lot of sacrifices for us. Thank you.

Also to Jo Mc: The legislation including voting mechanism was patterned after the way cities are incorporated. Does the whole county vote when a city is formed? No. You didn't get to vote when Taylorsville, Bluffdale or Holladay were formed, and it's the same way with school districts. We had a right to self-determination and the courts backed us up, declaring the law constitutional. So don't believe your legislator's grandstanding -- no one threw anyone "under the bus."

Ten dollars per month. Not that big of a problem tight wads.

Kids taking up the "fight" for the adults? Give me a break. These despot teachers are shameless.

what a great way to cut school. I truly wonder if the motive was anymore that getting out of school for free. Saw it before, done it before.

The Canyon thing is the cause of this. The rule makers on the hill should all be voted out and then the new group should combine all the districts including the bigots on the East.

I like the thrown under the school bus comment. That is what the hill people did to the West to help their buddies on the East. Absolutely no question.

Combine the school districts in the valley.
Fire all of the extra, overpaid adminstrators.
Tax IHC. They don't pay ANY taxes. They need to be taxed like the rest of the "for profit" businesses in the state.
These simple steps would more than cover the deficit.

JSD just nees to buck up and pay $10 more a month property tax. When the tax rate is the same for the westsiders as the eastsiders then they can claim equalization and undfairness. And no, I am not an eastside resident, just someone who has read both sides and can't understand why the residents of the west think they are "entitled"!

Wake up! The Country is in an Economic Depression no matter what the Lies Washington puts out as Data. Look at history hard times require difficult choices. These same choices were made for our Grandparents as they went to school. Property Values are down, Sales Revenues are down all equal less money to spend for Education. Toughen up, realize our true situation and deal with reality. This School Board is dealing with reality and making the best of the situation they face. Instead of walking out of classes pitch in and help. Students can help clean the schools and maintain the grounds, Older students can help in younger grades where overcrowding is more harmful, Students can take better care of textbooks, Students can actually turn off lights when they leave a classroom and turn down the heat. Maybe students might even learn more with less distractions.

It looks like the tight fisted conservatives are absolutely gleeful at the misfortunes of the GSD. It's hard to understand where the far right is headed with its selfish philosophy, but now it is becoming clearer. They want a regressive tax system, with few decent public services, a weak federal government, with no burdensome regulation, like pollution laws. Oh, I see, they want a society just like Mexico!

I have lived in Sandy for nearly 30 years. We got mugged on taxes to build schools here. It's time the west-side and their rich homes in daybreak now buck-up and foot that bill to build and maintain schools on their own. We shouldn't have to do it twice.

For the patrons of JSD, cut one coke per day, one pack of cigarettes a week, a sixpack of bud per month, drop HBO, buy a cheaper cell phone plan. Do any one of those things and the problem is solved. No more whining no more blaming others for your problem, your kids get what the deserve. Problem solved.

Perhaps these "concerned" students could pitch in some of their own money to help with the problem. I think we would see how "concerned they really are.

Anti-teacher comments like some of those here are one of the main reasons I quit teaching and went back to school to become a lawyer. Sad commentary when lawyers get more respect than teachers.
Yes, there are some teachers out there that don't do a great job. Teachers are willing to do an extremely difficult, extremely important job for low pay. They deserve more of our respect than almost any other profession out there (including lawyers and probably whatever your profession happens to be).