Are you a classroom teacher? Or Mother of a classroom Teacher?

Whatever your influence….. talk it up! Push on it!
TAKE MEMBERS OF YOUR PEER GROUP TO TRUSTEE MEETINGS AND AT PUBLIC COMMENTS SUPPORT THE IDEA.

CONSSIDER TOO THAT THE RECENT SUGGESTION OF ASKING VOTERS FOR ANOTRHER PARCEL TAX…. MAY FAIL THE VOTE TEST!

ON THEOTHER HAND, ONCE WE PLUG THE MOHNEY LOSS OCCURRING WITH HOOKY ETC., THE VOTERS WILL TAKEW MORE KINFLY TO A PARCEL TAX.

CONSIDER THAT THE MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT DISTRICT (mad)

PARCEL TAX AT $28. PER PROPERTY BROUGHT IN ABOUT ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PER YEAR.SO I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THE CURRENT CHATTER BANDIED ABOUT BY THE INTERIM SUPT., WHO SUGGESTED A $200 TAX PER PARCEL MIGHT BE A BIT EXCESSIVE ESPECIALLY IF WE CUT LOSSEWS AS RESULT OF CREATING THE PERFORMANCE BOND. iT WOYULD BE BETTER TO TRY THE PERFORMANCE BOND FIRST.

kEEP IN MIND THAT THE ‘SECOND WAVE’ OF THE sCHOOL RECONSTRUCTION bONDS WILL HIT YOUR Tax bill in two years….. look at that number on your last property tax payments…. then double it! in 2016, we get hit again and in 2020 thew final increment….. let us try for the $100 Performance bond first!

Advise teachers that they have a direct interest in adopting any idea which will improve the cash flow….. TRANSLATE THAT INTO SALARY IMPROVEMENT?

ALSO PUSH HARD ON THE THOUGHT THAT CUTTING DOWN ON ABSENCES AND TRANSIENCE WILL HAVE POSITIVE AFFECT ON TEST SCORES AS WELL STUDENT SUCCESS IN LIFE!

The links you provide are difficult to read given the factt that ink colors against background provided require willingness to syffer eyestarain…..

I’ll assume tyou are correct and that the rferences is indeed offering bonds on the Qkk Atrwwt MARKET places.
A tough sell!!!! Where does the interest rate needed to attract purchasers come to ftuition for purchasers ?

Until some reputable firm involved with the sle of these bonds providres in depth analysis…. I would hnot give much thought to involvment, even if I had the monry.

There is a ‘private’ school which has seen rapid expansion after it’s initial surprising success.

Suggest all see the following website and upon reaching it use the link to see the CBS 60 mi8nute video replay of a 1990′s telecast.

Reach this and enjoy a success story which in less than 20 years is found spreading across the country because of it’s success in stimu7lating interest as well as success of students who are drawn from low income areas.

Use Google: Cristo Rey Schools, Chicago Illinois.

I am an elderly person quite near 80 years of age… I have watched this three times since first stumbling onto the 60 mihnute bit as well as the rest of that which is sewen in live action on that web site…. It brings tears to these old Irish eyes (Quite literrally)
qhwn UI warch the Latino lass as she is told of her award of a scholarship and acceptance into a yhighly regarded University….. she shares a good cty with her JMother whom she called immediately upon notice of the acceptance and scholarship sum,,,,,,, this was a young ldy who until she was accepted into the school had never, ever been into do9wnrown area of the Chicago city, had never taken a ride in an elevator or rode an escalator…. having beein raised in a real ghetto neighborhood.

Ahe and her peer group attend school 4 days per week on an extended hours basis; on the fifth day6 they attend to duties in a full time position and arre paid an hourly salary, which is turned over to the school which handles the tax accounting etc. then applies the balance to tuition. During summer months the students tretain their wages for personal use for clothing and aid to ttheir familes. That is a big boost to their sense of acheivement.

Entralled with the concept I send nominal personal funds as encouragement to tyhe concept whic ho has about 23 ot 24 locations across the country. Last year the kids supplied a large sum in the millions of dollars as support to their yteachers etc….

Take the time to visit the website using Google to reach Cristo Rey Schools, Chicago. Ill.

All the schools have been located in urban areas and are succeeding with low incojme students whosew success stimulates di8scussion over why it is that only Catholic schools are involved. ( Many students are non-catholic and not limited to those occupants of latino neighborhoos. There is visual evidence of that fact when observing the website… Much support comes from individuals and Corporations. Bill Gates has been very generous…

What we have here are ‘Charter Schools’ which deny HUSD use of assets in order to acquire class rooms.

One EXAMPLE…. DARWIN SCHOOL….. THAT LAND PARCEL SHOULD BE REDEVELOPED UNDER LEASE CONDITIONS WHIC WOULD EARN husd ABOUT $500,000 PER YEAR IN EARNINGS APPLICABLE TO THE BUDGET. uSE OF THAT SITE FOR JUST 200 OR SO STUDENTS IN A cHARTER SCHOOL USE IS OUTRAGEOUS.

Sure, all we have to do is fund that credit to your account with a debit to HEA Union dues hee hee ??

Time to get seriously supportive of an action plan which serves to reduce the loss of ADA money is now!

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There is a right to a free public education but once enrolled the school district and teachers have a right to a stabilized enrollment rather than the atrociousM ‘HOOKY’ AND NEGLIGENCE absences which have a direct. innediare affect on budget…. those losses to the money sums estrablished in the budget to enable classroom size detrerminations and hire teachers etc…. have a drastioc affect upon classroom stability, test scores and tentative loss of job notices issued in April ( which demoralizes teachers and othetr staff ) MUST BE STOPPED!!

I have a grand-daughter who graduated ‘cum laude’ in mathmatics at University level, who intends to teach Calculus….. she would rather dig ditches than work at HUSD! Our sorry budget condition is wIdeLy known and it must be corrected.

That concept of immediate NEED is an absolute…. we have been battling the budget problem since late 1980′s and have been consistenntly losing the battle….. think if it as being similar to the situation at Dunkirk in early 1940.

We cannot afford to lose the battle! We will become the most ridiculed bunch of stand around and do nothing bunch of voters God ever allowed on the face
of the earth1.

As a last result of their unemploy-ability, you want maybe we should provide bus money so our kids find employment in the coal mines of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky ?

I AM EXPERIENCING OBJECTION BY E-MAIL PATH WAY, TO A PROPOSAL WHICH I FLASHED BY THE TRUSTEES AT ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS SOME WEEKS AGO. THE PROPOSAL WAS TO CREATE A CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUSD AND EACH FAMILY WHICH WOULD BE CALLED A ‘PERFORMANBCE BOND’ SIMILAR TO THAT EXISTING IN THE WORLD OF COMMERCIAL BUSINEESS.

EACH FAMILY WITH EITHER A STU8SDENT OR STUDENTS IN HUSD WIOULD BE REQUIRED TO SIGN (WITH xcOUNTEWR SIGNATURE OF HUSD PESON, TO POST A ONE HUBDRED DOLLAR BOND ($100. ). AT BEGINING OF EACH SCHOOL YEAR. IT WOULD BE TOTALLY REFUNDED AT END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR PROVIDED THAT ANY STUDENT OR STUDENTS RESIDING IN THAT HOUSEHOLD DID NOT CUT CLASS OR VIOLATE THE NEED REQUIREMENTS TO FIT DESCRITPTION OF AN ‘EXCUSED ABSENCE’.

EACH ABSENCE WHICH LACKED QUAKLIFUICATION AS AN EXCUSED ABSENCE WOULD SEE A $30 DEDUCT FROMN THE $100 BOND AT END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

THE SIMPLE FACT IS THAT WE ARE LOSING HUGE SUMS OF MONEY TO THE HUGE PROBLEMS OCCURRNG WITH ASBSENTEEISM AND TRANSIENCE. THINK IN TERMNS OF UP TO $5,000,000. ANNUALLY

THE ‘PERFORMANCE BOND’ IS NOT A FEE… IT IS A GUARANEE THAT MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED TO PARENTS WHO MEET THE OBLIGATIONS OF GOOD PARENTING AND PARTICIPATION IN A PLAN WHICH WILL, AT THE LEAST, REDUCE THE MONEY LOSS IN OUR PRESENT (and continuing ?) ADA EXPERIENCE.

IN LEGALEESE… IT IS A TWO PARTY CONTRACT. FULLY REFUNDABLE IF THE STUDENTS FROM EACH HOUSEHOLD EITHER SUPPLY A WRITTEN EXCUSE, ACCEPTABLE UNDER THE RULES, FOR A LEGITIMATE ABSENCE… OR PAY A PENALTY TO SUPPLANT THE LOSS CHARGED TO HUSD . ( $30. PER DAY, PER single day or continuing ABSENCE.)

Those crying poor mouth the loudest need something to read on the subject of acceptable levels of parenting; that idea ought be provided in a single page explanation to each family with several children or just a single child enrolled at HUSD. (the maximum up front ‘bond’ amount would be $100.)

The rationale is simple: each child has a right to an education… that is law of the land.
Parental neglect in the form of an absence of firm relationship with progeny is inexcusable on the basis of the idea that the neglect causing unexcused absences; (also failure to notify HUSD of intentions to withdraw in a timely manner), is causing huge money losses. Those losses presently translate into poor test scores, discouragement of teachers. Etc.

Your child or children have a right to public school education . There is no associated right to create, encourage, or suffer the presence of such neglect of parent responsibilities which translate to harm affecting all those faithful to responsibilities. We are presently neglectful in assuring that the free education is useful to community and not damaging to others as in the case of those who are neglectful.

If neglectful parents are not into the spirit of good parenting…. Then consider expulsion if the performance bond does not correct behavior.

Please do not attempt to tell me that some are unable to provide the $100. The bond is totally refundable if rules following documentation of ‘excused absences’ are followed. Transience is another problem…. Even ‘good’ families are prone to failure in instances of ‘job transfer‘. As an example: Too busy to tell the school about a sudden transfer? Well, if you have six kids at various levels of classroom attendance, a sudden transfer/departure can cost $180. Per day in lost ADA money….each day of occurrence until some parent or principal advises of the departure! The bond onlyt covers $100 of that loss; on the other hand if the courtesy of ‘following the rules’ is performed then there is no loss. There would ne no loss to HUSD and the $100. would be refunded.

Parental objections to the Bond Performance concept and ‘blowing up’ our collective inability to grasp the benefit will see HUSD experiencing the same year end losses in highly substantive amounts of money!

Frankly my estimate of you is that you will be a fighter in promoting the idea once you fully understand the technicalities and the benefits.

In my own case, I fear that someone will promote passage of law preventing this. Then too, we might possibly need passage of law promoting the concept……. Would Arnold seek to prevent it ( by veto) on the basis of the idea that the added income benefit would deny him the incredible sums the state now keeps? Balance the budget by encouraging unexcused absences? At increases over our present inexcusable predicament?

Think in terms of positive support!!!

Will teachermama and all the other members of the union support this?