I don’t think this last “plan” is going to work very well.

The following letter was posted by the WSFCS Central Office and Board of Education as an attempt to appear transparent in its rushed process of slashing next year’s budget in the next couple of weeks.

So we will eliminate cell phone use, print no more color copies, not wax some floors, get rid of teacher assistants, reduce pre-K opportunities, increase class sizes, and alter bus routes.

So, what that really could mean is:

• We will use only land lines at schools and administrators on big campuses will utilize owls and pigeons to send communications in “real time” to other officials.
• We will not allow for color copies, especially in schools where no color copying is happening already.
• We will not wax some floors and not use machines that we already have in possession that do those jobs.
• We will eliminate teacher assistant positions in a state that has already gotten rid of thousands of such positions in the last decade.
• We will reduce early learning opportunities for students in a school system where 3 in 4 students is economically disadvantaged.
• We will increase class sizes for classes that already have experienced growing class sizes.

And…

• We will reduce the amount of routes our buses drive when we can’t even fulfill the positions in transportation as they exist now.

Sounds good.

Well…maybe not.

What may be a better idea is just eat crow, put aside any shame, forget political reputations, and go ASK for the money from the county to keep this school system going. FOR OUR KIDS.