Chesterfield schools could lose 525 jobs

In reply to “Grateful” I totally agree…these are all very good points.  My daughter is out of school now, if she were still in school I would think about filing a lawsuit against the schools for allowing illegals to attend, they are holding the English speaking children back because their parents refuse to set the example of assimulation and try everything they can to make the US assimulate to thier demands.  There was a group of students that sued the state of Florida recently for deporting their ILLEGAL parents because their families were torn apart. Well Boo Hoo…go with them is you don’t like it. If they can sue they why shouldn’t we?

Maybe somebody should check the safe’s in the County Of Chesterfield.  Just like the person in Goochland.. Maybe some money can be found in someone’s safe’s at the county’s office.  On a serious note… someone mentioned Henrico does not have a shortfall… I think its comming… because some people in Chesterfield will now find a way to send their children to a Henrico school.  How they do it is they get an apartment with 3 other people.  One gets a bill for electric.. One get’s a bill for cable.. One get’s a bill for Phone.  All 3 are on the apartment contract.  All you need to prove you live in a County is the Contract and One Bill.  So you go to work at insbrook… drop your child at the school… then go to work.  At 2 P.M. the Daycare van’s come and get your child.  At 5 P.M. you pick up your child at the day care and you go home to Chesterfield.  It’s easy to beat the system.

Someone doesn’t know anything about managing money.  How come all the other school systems don’t have to cut this much?  Albeit there are cuts, but not this drastic. Henrico doesn’t even have a budget shortfall.

I moved to Chesterfield County because of the great school system. This kind of publicity about our schools and not enough government funding, is going to destroy the reputation of the school system that many parents have worked hard and long hours to support.That in turn is going to decrease the property value in Chesterfield, because people are not going to put their children in classrooms that contain 30 plus students and no text books. The SOL and standard scores will begin to drop and this county will be in more trouble than it is in now. Find somewhere else to cut the budget other than our teachers. If you are going to cut the budget start with the School Board and cut the positions there in half, look into the Board of Supervisors and cut them in half. What is the Salary of the county Supervisor… take away some of that.

If one of the best things about Chesterfield is not funded properly to allow it to function at an excellent level, then why would anyone want to move here? The teachers are already over worked. over tired and stressed out with children, who the most positive thing in their life is their teacher. The only meal they get during the day is at school. Where are YOUR PRIORITIES in Chesterfield???? I vehemently oppose the cutting of any direct instructional personnel within the school system. That is a huge slap in the face by our local as well as state government. We the people really mean little or nothing to you all. The worse part is that the school children seem mean nothing to you. Our local legislators .. are you doing anything to prevent this from happening?
This county is going downhill at a rapid speed. This is just another example of a poorly run county government and lack of leadership on the state level and county level.
The next thing we will be told is that we will not longer have police officers and firefighters to cover the county. I hope everyone has a working waterhose and some type of home security. People who can afford to move to another school district should do so…. quickly. 
Property values in Chesterfield are down 10 percent.have you looked up your real estate assessment?.. Do you want them to go even lower, then sit back and allow this to happen.

I don’t know what C-field hired their testing coordinator to do, but in another local county there are a few and they are actually a part of special education and they coordinate and administer SOLs to special ed students and also the alternative state testing to students who are severely impaired.  It’s actually a good checks and balances system to ensure test validity and make sure that admins aren’t “cooking the books.“

I think it’s a shame that Chesterfield is loosing so many, however, from a friend of mine who works in that county… the central administrators apparently “overhired” and filled positions that weren’t mandated by Dept of Ed regulations.  It’s great when you have the extra money, however when it comes to cuts, they are the first to go.  Some counties strategically underhire for that very reason… the state can’t cut money for mandated positions.