Poor Students at Risk for Supercommittee Cuts

[marmar]

(Bloomberg) Debbie Hunter, principal of Edward E. Taylor Elementary in Columbia, South Carolina, says federal spending cuts may reverse gains at her school where 99 percent of 257 students are so poor they qualify for free or reduced- price lunches.

“We have to be real mindful that the kids we are educating now are the people who are going to be running the country one day,” Hunter, 53, said in a telephone interview. “Funding cuts tell students that education isn’t important.”

The worst-case scenario: $3.5 billion in education spending reductions that will happen automatically if members of a deficit-targeting supercommittee can’t agree on an alternative, said Joel Packer, executive director at the Committee for Education Funding in Washington. That would be the biggest one- time cut ever in federal school programs, he said.

The supercommittee’s deliberations are likely to harm the poor disproportionately, who are more reliant on federal dollars, Hunter and other educators say. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/poor-students-at-risk-as-supercommittee-weighs-3-5-billion-cut.html

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Anything BUT raising taxes on the greed heads. Not fair to 'punish' them, but

perfectly acceptable to PUNISH those who are the most vunerable to these cuts.


What a miserable country this is.

[Enrique]

2. no need to worry

the veto pen is in the hands of a Class Warrior.

[woo me with science]

3. Well, with thousands of surface-to-air missiles missing,

they certainly won't want to cut defense, will they. :eyes:

We are witnessing the planned rape of the American poor, working, and middle classes.

[dembotoz]

4. bend over and grab your ankles--you were expecting fairness from this bunch?

[Newest Reality]

5. Most of those kids who are that poor

probably won't be running the country, seeing how this is an Oligarchy. Rather, they are human beings who require adequate sustenance to both survive and in order to study and learn.

Funding cuts tell students that they are NOT important or even worth a meal.

[dkf]

6. Cuts for kids but don't touch increasingly expensive entitlements for the elderly.

This country doesn't give a rip about the future. This is why China will succeed and why our standard of living will go down down down.

[jtown1123]

7. No. We're all in this together. One group crowding out another is a GOP lie. n/t

[dkf]

8. Have you ever looked at the future projections of spending?

There is definitely going to be crowding out. I can't believe you haven't figured it out yet.

http://www.fms.treas.gov/fr/10frusg/10guide.pdf

Take a look...people need to understand.

[LiberalFighter]

9. Which is more important?

Making sure students eat or spending the funds on extracurricular activities? There should be extracurricular activities but to what extent and what expenses? There are likely not to be as many extracurricular activities at the grade school level as in high school. But they are both in the same school system for funding purposes.