The Chattanooga “deep state’ is subjecting us to an unprecedented push to spend yet more taxpayer money on education with a second large tax increase within two years. They seem to feel that the new superintendent has some magical program to improve school performance through spending more money, where previous school boards/superintendents have consistently failed in this approach.
The proposed budget will lead to there being one school employee for about every 9.5 students. My goodness, they must be tripping over each other. This is ridiculous. Our County Commission should call a halt to this extravagance.
I suspect the real reason the schools are having problems is the over 10% nonEnglish speakers, of whom a large percent are illegal. The request for more truancy officers is revealing. As one school official said, “most people don’t realize we are raising Mayan children, many of whom have never even attended school.”
Terence Knee
Hixson