Klarinet Archive - Posting 001431.txt from 1998/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: budget cutbacks
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 22:20:26 -0400

At 06:10 PM 4/24/98 -0700, Jason Hsien wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
>|>|But all this is neither here nor there. If profit is the motive for
>school
>|>|curricula, I'd like to know how much the history department made? Or the
>|>|English department? Or mathematics?
>|>
>|>Around here, different departments fundraise whenever they need money. We
>|>usually sell with those mini-catalogs and stuff...
>|
>|I don't send my kids to school to learn to be door-to-door salespeople! I
>|don't like it for band, either, but understand it given music's
>|semi-extra-curricular nature. Forcing so-called "academic" departments to
>|stoop to begging is reprehensible! Either fund the schools or close them!
>
>This is just MHO, but as long as the schools maintain a standard level of
>quality (as the schools in my area have exceeded in consistantly for the
>past 20 years, earning county, state, national, and even international
>recognition as some of the best schools with the best programs), I don't see
>why fundraising for academic and extracurricular activities (such as clubs,
>music, and sports) should pose a big problem.
>
>Yes, it doesn't seem right, and I detest going door to door one week, then
>selling candy on campus the next, but I'd rather do all that and have a
>great school with great academic standards and a large base of
>extracurricular and intramural activities, then not do anything and have a
>mediocre school that is cut to the barest necessities.
>
>A quote from Mr. Hollands' Opus I'd like to bring up:
> "Well, you can cut the arts all you want Gene, but soon, these kids
>aren't going to have anything to read or write about"
>
>I agree with this quote and I also understand your standpoint, Bill and
>Roger, but I am trying to put up the reasons why it's not that way. It'd be
>nice to get full funding from the state, or if Clinton added a couple of
>billions into the Department of Education through that new fangled "Balanced
>Budget" he set up for us, but quite frankly, those of us who are in public
>school or have kids in public school with extracurricular activities should
>just be happy that we even have that. I know plenty of high schools that
>don't.
>
I don't disagree with your statement of reality. I only deplore it.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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