We all know that it is the legislature that determines where
our permanent fund money goes. The idea is that the legislature controls the
purse strings and creates the bills that sets the laws and policies that are
then carried out by the executive branch of the government. Details are left up
to cabinet members and local boards. The ideal is that they use the money
allocated by the legislature to carry out policies that benefit the general
public.
Why is it that the legislature is totally failing in that
manner when it comes to education? I have had to listened for years that
education in our state takes a large amount of money with little to no results.
Has anyone working in the field of education every been listen to by the
legislature? When it comes to spending all you have to do is look at how the
money is being used to understand what the problem is when it comes to results.
We have top educational administration which gets outrageous salaries while
teachers and support staff get bread crumbs for pay. Teachers and support staff
have to apply to programs listed as social safety net just to make ends meet.
When I talk to legislatures they refuse to help. They say they don’t want to
micromanage the schools. My question is how is that working out for New Mexico!?!
They tell you to go through chain of command as if you were
in the military. The chain of command is the problem to begin with in the first
place. Tutor are retiring because they are angry and fed up with getting the
short end of the stick. Let them hire workstudy students that don’t know what
they are doing. Why should we care if the children of New Mexico don’t get a
real education? Clearly the legislators in Santa Fe don’t care. Maybe if they
spent less time listening to lobbyist paid for by the educational
administration and started caring about the people working with students
results would improve.
My advice to the legislature is keep your raise because we
will never see it in our paycheck! The money will be spent on raises for the
top administration and lobbyists. And when the voters blame you for the failing
students in this state you can do what you always do and blame the people who
work with our students. You can explain why their students have substandard nonprofessional
people failing to help them when their grades drop.
Am I angry
YES! The votes should be as well.
