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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 344531" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I have heard from people in sd's that many parents aren't as concerned or involved in their kid's lives as I am with difficult child- and I'm sure many or most warrior moms have heard this, too. I wouldn't say most parents don't care but many are completely unaware of a lot of things we have learned the hard way- we being those of us on this board.</p><p></p><p>Re. the legislators- I didn't mean that they are just standing around watching parents and teachers point fingers because they think it's an answer. I think it lets them off the hook. Obviously how they handle things will vary with each assembly from state to state but I've been watching ours this year and can tell you that the proposed budget cuts had a grossly disproportionate amount being cut from areas pertaining to minors, with a big one being k-12 education. It (being the cuts from areas pertaining to kids) were so disproportionate there have been some pretty "high up" people causing a stir.</p><p></p><p>It's a matter of where they are still choosing to put money and where they are choosing to cut it - it makes their priorities obvious and clearly, in this state right now it isn't with our kids. And the sd's themselves- they can get funding appr'd for building sometimes and even though they know the money could be better spent for something like books or teachers' salaries, if the money was appr'd for building they aren't allowed to spend it for something else. If they don't spend it, they lose it altogether. So they spend it for construction purposes because it's keep their name around with the higher ups as needing money and then they go back and ask for more for educational resources and so forth. So all that goes back to the state authorities, too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 344531, member: 3699"] I have heard from people in sd's that many parents aren't as concerned or involved in their kid's lives as I am with difficult child- and I'm sure many or most warrior moms have heard this, too. I wouldn't say most parents don't care but many are completely unaware of a lot of things we have learned the hard way- we being those of us on this board. Re. the legislators- I didn't mean that they are just standing around watching parents and teachers point fingers because they think it's an answer. I think it lets them off the hook. Obviously how they handle things will vary with each assembly from state to state but I've been watching ours this year and can tell you that the proposed budget cuts had a grossly disproportionate amount being cut from areas pertaining to minors, with a big one being k-12 education. It (being the cuts from areas pertaining to kids) were so disproportionate there have been some pretty "high up" people causing a stir. It's a matter of where they are still choosing to put money and where they are choosing to cut it - it makes their priorities obvious and clearly, in this state right now it isn't with our kids. And the sd's themselves- they can get funding appr'd for building sometimes and even though they know the money could be better spent for something like books or teachers' salaries, if the money was appr'd for building they aren't allowed to spend it for something else. If they don't spend it, they lose it altogether. So they spend it for construction purposes because it's keep their name around with the higher ups as needing money and then they go back and ask for more for educational resources and so forth. So all that goes back to the state authorities, too. [/QUOTE]
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