Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Philadelphia superintendent identifies schools he intends to close

Kristen A. Graham, Inquirer Staff Writer

This article,"Philadelphia superintendent identifies schools he intends to close," is about how the Philadelphia superintendent is trying to shut down 37 schools to save money. 11 of them are high schools, 22 of them are elementary schools, and four of them are middle schools. Thirty-seven schools are closing to get back $28 million. They are using excuses like, the schools aren't being used, schools haven't met the academic standards, and they don't have to pay for a lot of teachers, etc.
"This is a historic moment for us," William R. Hite Jr. said at a news conference.
Not only will people lose their jobs, but the students will have to be moved and learn to adapt to the new environment. Some good schools are being moved in to bad schools and some bad schools are being moved to good schools. For example, Paul Robeson is moving to Sayre and Communications Technology is moving to Bartram.
"Officials believe very strongly that our public-school system is an institution worth saving," Hite said.
"Many superintendents chose to kick the can and continue to just kick it down and let someone else deal with it," Hite said."There's no more room to kick the can," he said.
They plan on selling the empty schools to people who wants to buy them.

I think that this proposal is a bad idea. A lot of these children are coming from different areas of Philadelphia, so for children to travel from their original school to go to a father school is not good and is actually costing more money to hand out transpass's. I also think that the increasing the number of kids in classrooms will take a toll on the child's learning. It can cause problems and violence as well, being in a new school and the anger of getting switched can help cause fights.

1 comment:

  1. What would you suggest instead to deal with the financial problems? 85

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