[Vision2020] MSD financial condition

[Carl Westberg]

I'd like to approach this discussion from a somewhat different angle.  If I 
were a young (I wish) married (I'm not, no woman having ever been stupid or 
blind enough to have married me) man with school age children, and were 
looking at available schools in Moscow, my options would be quite limited.  
Other, larger cities may well have private schools that would interest me, 
but not Moscow.  Not being a Christian, I would not want my children 
attending a Christian driven private school.  If there were a quality 
secular private school in town, it may well interest me.  To my knowledge, 
there is not.  Hence, circumstances would require me to enroll my children 
in the public school system and support it at the voting booth.  I assume 
there are parents in our town who are faced with such a decision.            
                                                                             
                                                 Carl Westberg Jr.






>From: Debbie Gray <dgray@uidaho.edu>
>To: Dale Courtney <dale@courtneys.us>
>CC: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] MSD financial condition
>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:27:36 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Dale Courtney wrote:
>
> > First, what is the ideal classroom size?
>
>I don't know. What is it at the private school you are using for
>comparison?
>
> >
> > Second, just how far does the MSD student enrollment need to decrease 
>before
> > we start lowering our variable costs? I'd really like to hear a private
> > business owner (who manages people and budget) give rational for this? 
>Only
> > in the government would we consider increasing the budget when the 
>demand
> > for services decreases 13 percent.
>
>What about the situation where a class size might decrease by 13% but that
>class section still needs to be taught. Eg. there is an advanced biology
>class that had 20 students last year. This year it has 17.4 students.
>There still needs to be a teacher to teach the same amount of hours, even
>though there are less students. Or should the teacher teach at only an 87%
>level of his/her skill or time? Even if class sizes shrink, you can't go
>about melding the biology class with the history class just because there
>are less students. And what if last year there were 20 students crammed
>into a classroom that was built to accomodate 15?
>
>
>Debbie
>
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