Comments about ‘Utah Legislature: Rallying cry at Capitol: If this isn’t rainy day, what would be?’

If you think it's raining now, get ready for the Typhoon that will hit in two years.

Why should the state bail you out? You're the ones refusing to pay the taxes. I thought the Rainy Day fund was set up to be used as insurance for ALL residents in Utah, not just for those who loudly protest and complain in South Jordan?

The rainy day fund is for one time expenditures. This problem will be an ongoing on until the district decides to cut spending!

Get with the district officals to have them step up to the plate.

I am JSD English Teacher who teaches concurrent enrollment courses English 1010 & Humanities 1100 for a Utah college. I have great respect for the college and their efforts to keep a partnership with our school to honor our academically pursuant students. I applaud them and am honored to be apart of the quality educational experience that Juniors and Seniors can participate in to received college credit. I take the level of integrity required to fulfill the instruction of these courses seriously.
Due to JSD's school board's decision to lay off teachers, add an additional class (which includes) losing a valuable preparation period) and add students to each class, I am having a great deal of anxiety as to how I can keep the integrity of the concurrent courses and provide adequate feedback to maintain the rigor and high standard required for the college course. I will have an average of 100 concurrent enrollment students next year in addition to a couple of other English courses. To grade the concurrent enrollmentnessays alone for approx. 5 minutes, it will take me close to 8 hrs & 20 min. (Continued on next comment)

Please tell me how I can physically grade these essays, as well as plan for adequate lessons and assignments when I will only be given a little more than an hour to prepare every other day? I am extremely frustrated with the lack of awareness that the JSD school board has of the unique highschool experience. With the exception of one board member (who is the only voice of reason) and another who has had no experience in the schools except for graduating from highschool, the rest are current or former elementary teachers, including Superintendent Barry Newbold. Not once have I seen or heard of their presence in the high school to familiarize themselves with the demands of high school teachers. I challenge everyone of them to shadow a high school teacher for a day so they can see what they will do to our ability to teach affectively before they pound this final nail in the house of cards based on their decision. Ultimately, it is the students, the kids, our futures, who will pay. They will have ineffective teaching and below standard education. There has got to be a better answer or bust!

"Why should the state bail you out? You're the ones refusing to pay the taxes. I thought the Rainy Day fund was set up to be used as insurance for ALL residents in Utah, not just for those who loudly protest and complain in South Jordan?"

We're refusing to pay taxes??? What world do you live in, cause I just paid a heck of a lot in taxes, thank you very much!

I would gladly pay $20-$25 more per month to help educate the kids in the JSD. I have heard the numbers are lower than that. But there is a very vocal subset of residents in the JSD who refuse to do so because they, 1- home-school their kids, 2- have no kids, or 3-are against taxes at all costs.