Different Perceptions
Doug Peterson,
Off the Record,
Feb 16, 2012
There is of course a danger in playing a game like "which things should we cut first" because it assumes that what we should be doing is cutting things. Having gotten past that hurdle, though, it's fun. Look at the difference between what students inside a school would choose to cut and what's on the list provided by the general public via survey results. The students would take aim at "School Newspaper or Broadcast Outlet" while the public's first choice to cut would be "Administrators" - they went after the student media second. Which fills me full of anguish - the creative outlets, like the school newspaper, ought to be the last thing cut. Meanwhile, I'd go after some of the things not on the list - the school building itself, computer labs (student should have their own personal tech), and paper-based textbooks. I'd keep the teachers, as many of them as I could, but they'd be doing very different work alongside students online and in the community - or in their newspaper or broadcast outlet.
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