Cupertino schools may have 30-1 student-teacher ratio in some grades – San Jose Mercury News
Cupertino schools may cut GATE program, have 30-1 student-teacher ratio in some grades – San Jose Mercury News
The Cupertino Union School District could face cuts as early as next month as the Board of Trustees decides how to close a projected $5 million deficit for the 2010-2011 school year.The board is scheduled to make long-term cuts Jan. 11, Superintendent Phil Quon announced Tuesday at a school board meeting.
Possible cuts include staff reductions, reducing custodial staff to halftime, eliminating district office classified positions, cutting hours at a teacher resource center and eliminating summer school and the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program.
“We have scrutinized every aspect of district operations. We think this represents the best way to get where we need to be,” Quon said.
Cutting classes and increasing the student-teacher ratio to 30-1 in grades 1, 2, and 3 is possible, chief business officer Rick Hausman said.
Thanks to Burbed reader Herve for this find.
Merry Christmas students of Cupertino. Come on, you’d rather be at home playing Metal Warefare 2 anyway. Now, there’s even less of a reason to go to school. Hurray!
December 27th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
And get to compete with 29 other kids who are “red eyed grinders”, overintellectual, pushed, Asian super-students who are still living according to the old rules, that say success = becoming cubicle-veal.
So your kid won’t get a real education that’s suited to the real future: Playground fights, gambling, knowing how to function as part of a gang, learning to climb fences and jump off roofs, all that good stuff.
Ironically, the expensive private schools teach street skills better, with their emphasis on sports, cliques and teams, etc.
December 27th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
SmilingCat, you should send your kids, when you have them, to the streets of Mexico/Oakland/Richmon/East Palo Alto so they can get their street skills.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
“Oakland/Richmon/East Palo Alto so they can get their street skills.”
Proximity to the ghetto – yet another benefit of living in the yay area.
December 28th, 2009 at 1:50 am
This is why only losers raise their kids in Cupertino, winners raise them in Palo Alto so they can go play in da EPA
December 28th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Cupertino the cubicle-veal factory?