U-46 cuts

Over 700 teachers are being cut from district U-46 today. Well some of these will be rehired, it still means larger class sizes for next year. Secretary and clerical positions are being eliminated, making more work for teachers. School nurses are now at 2 schools meaning half the time a building will not have a nurse (because the kids only get sick/hurt when the nurse is there, right?). Our school social worker is going from having 2 schools t0 4. With 4 schools, she will simply not have the time to deal with student emotional needs, only shuffle paperwork. I would think the number of school shootings alone would urge us to have more social work, not less. Librarians will be at 2 schools so they will not have time to read to the kids, only check out books. Many librarians have spent their careers developing programs to do with classes in the library that work on vocabulary development and skills for the ISAT. Kindergartners will not have art, music, or PE next year.

What are we doing to our educators, who graduate full of passion only to be treated as a commodity? Educators are some of the most hardworking people I know. Do they not deserve to have job security, fair pay, benefits?
Most importantly, what are we doing to our children? They are our nation's future. And yet we take more away from them and expect more with less. It takes a village to educate a child. 1 person can not do it alone, let alone with a class of 33 children.