School Budget Cut Affects Teachers

This is an obvious statement but it is true. Bigger class sizes, less faculty is what faces Wyandotte High School and the entire USD #500.

Ken Willard, an English, newspaper, broadcasting and video teacher will have his classes cut down to only English. Even though he co teaches Video he is very important in making the production happen. Newspaper will be reassigned to Mr. Jonathan Hyde, an English Journalism ACT and yearbook teacher. The Full mantle of the Video Production class will be put onto Mr. Kevin Edwards, the Graphic Design teacher.

This is just on example of what will occur. I didn't even mention what will happen to the broadcasting class. It may be non existent next year.

The reason for this is the budget crisis in the state of Kansas. The education funding will be cut 7 million dollars next year. this means that all Kansas high schools will have less money to pay for materials, teachers ETC.

What does this mean?

If less money than already will be available for education then kids do not get as good an education. In turn they do not get the proper education for college. Then less people will get into college and then the higher unemployment will go up.

Opinion? Education should not be cut. USD #500 is in enough trouble that it cannot afford this kind of budget cut.