New Yorkers..you are going to get what you asked for (house, neighborhood)
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Congratulations to my fellow Long Islanders, soldiers in Cuomo's army! All of your dreams are going to start to come true. You wanted a tax cap and you got it! Now deal with what that means to our schools.
Sure some teachers will be laid off- wasnt that your goal, to teach the greedy teachers a lesson?-But only the newest teachers will ever even worry about their jobs, which means the lowest paid and possibly still ethusiastic teachers will be laid off.
School buildings closed (even Newsday can't avoid this story- they will just try not to connect it to the tax cap)
Classes cut
Bigger classes (thats worked really well for NYC)
Sports going to pay for play
Art and music--bye bye
No mandate relief (remember that farce...the tax cap is the hammer to get mandate relief said one state senator...of course mandate relief is bogged down in bureaucracy)
Now I am not saying that there wasnt some cutting to be done but Long Islanders bought into Cuomo's rant and didnt examine what is really going to happen. You are going to hate when you see what you have done....especially since those 100k teachers all have seniority and arent going anywhere.
I believe everything you've stated here is true.
However, paying teachers more, and opening more schools and taxing more doesn't solve the problem either.
I was going to make fun of you blaming Cuomo for this mess but the fact is, the elder Cuomo had me going to HS back in the mid-late 1980's under similar circumstances; larger classes, old textbooks, split sessions and broken football equipment. I can't argue with you.
Maybe if taxes for the schools weren't 2 thirds of everyones prop tax this wouldn't have happened, and IF the schools with such SMART people learned to do things differently they could have saved the people lots of money. . .but nooooooooo that wasn't the case.
Congratulations to my fellow Long Islanders, soldiers in Cuomo's army! All of your dreams are going to start to come true. You wanted a tax cap and you got it! Now deal with what that means to our schools.
Sure some teachers will be laid off- wasnt that your goal, to teach the greedy teachers a lesson?-But only the newest teachers will ever even worry about their jobs, which means the lowest paid and possibly still ethusiastic teachers will be laid off.
School buildings closed (even Newsday can't avoid this story- they will just try not to connect it to the tax cap)
Classes cut
Bigger classes (thats worked really well for NYC)
Sports going to pay for play
Art and music--bye bye
No mandate relief (remember that farce...the tax cap is the hammer to get mandate relief said one state senator...of course mandate relief is bogged down in bureaucracy)
Now I am not saying that there wasnt some cutting to be done but Long Islanders bought into Cuomo's rant and didnt examine what is really going to happen. You are going to hate when you see what you have done....especially since those 100k teachers all have seniority and arent going anywhere.
Enjoy the results Long Island...you deserve it.
Maybe we should just bend over and take it forever instead?
Even Kevin Bacon in Animal House didn't really want another when he kept asking......
Paying 100's of admins $300k and up plus lifetime bennies and paying 4th grade teachers $145k for 181 days a year is really feasible and sustainable. Sure, no problem with THOSE numbers. Such horeshockey. It's taxpayer rape and the taxpayer is drunk.
I'm sure that before they start knocking off the teachers, they'll take away their assistants. You know, the same assistants that our teachers didn't have back in the day when classrooms were occupied by more students. It would be a start.
Maybe it will force the kids to go back in the street and play stick ball, we can have a neighborhood feel again, like the good old days.
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