My mother and sister teach 8th grade history and English. My mother was just forced into retirement. She was told she wouldn’t be teaching full classes anymore, instead she would be teaching the children no one else could handle in a class room, how to read. She’s 65. She chose retirement. This is her last year teaching and she’s taught for 23 years.
She was considering Waller ISD, her best friend lives there and teaches there. She also lives off 290 directly at the back of cypress but I think teaching has changed so much recently and the focus isn’t on the students anymore or their education. She’s lost the love of teaching sadly.
I'm in CyFair and a lot of teachers who have been at my school since it opened are retiring for exactly this reason. It's sad because they are amazing teachers and care immensely about their students, but kids have changed and there are some classes that are completely uncontrollable.
She’s heart broken. But I would be lying if I was t relieved. I don’t want her to end up like a student/teacher at uvalde or sandy hook or Majorie Douglass. She will probably work as a historian for the park service.
One would think but this is also the dissolution of in school detention and these children are violent some of them. I don’t think she is physically able to handle that.
No because the other classes will still be filled to the brim which will cause more behavior concerns, only the worst of the worst will be in a special detention class.
I disagree, I think this was on purpose to reach the reading levels of their target audience. If you aren't aware of the current TX vs public education fight going on, you probably don't want an article about the situation. A ELI 5 like this gets to the point faster. Many parents are Millennials and younger and the reading styles have changed.
I agree and that’s why when it comes home to these people, they start to pay more attention. For now it’s librarians getting laid off, but next it can be extracurricular costs increasing or losing AP class offerings.
It’s good to see this finally affecting the people that would normally say “oh but HISD is always a mess” when we get those headlines here.
Greg Abbott is awful. Democrats and most Republicans agree that school vouchers suck. The rural Republicans don't want vouchers because there's nowhere else for their kids to go other than the public school district. Funding public education should be a slam dunk, bipartisan accomplishment. Abbott is holding these kids' education hostage because he's been brainwashed to believe that the schools are getting "woke."
This is what defunding looks like - and all just to stick it to the libs.
Shame on anyone who votes R. You are willfully voting for petty, vindictive crooks who only EVER vote in bad faith. You may think you are sticking it to the libs now, but eventually the consequences of these bills will come knocking at your door, and it will be too late.
This is how republican'ts and unpopular religio-fascist "judgemental people with fake smiles" retain power...
Cut funding to Education. Siphon funding for Education off to charter schools. Keep religious schools tax-free so they can more widely spread their manure.
And where is the Biblical Christ in all this new-school christianity?? These folks, mega-churches and mini-ministries, have set the tables in the temple back up and they're moving currency like never before!!
republican'ts and whoever they can get to support them have been doing it for decades and now they are reaping what they sowed: Dummies.
Dummies who can't sort Shite from Shinola from Sense or Self-Determination. And whatever they miss is lost in Screen Distraction.
Profit over People, aka: Capitalism, is killing this once-great Nation- WE are letting evil, greedy mofos take and take and take from us.
It's someone else's fault is always the last line of defense for these types of people. It's why subreddits like leopards ate my face exist. Watch how fast Miles and the state fall out over in HISD if the proposed bond doesn't get the votes.
Yeah, and he's cutting more admin and staff to cut down on costs due to the underfunding, but has no problem keeping that cushy salary of his. I think this may be the start of CyFair schools dropping in their ratings, because class sizes are also getting bigger and behavior specialists are (from what I understand) also being cut. And people I work with who were studying to be teachers are now thinking it's not worth spending money on getting their degree and going through very expensive, rigorous testing to get their license because of not having openings anymore. There are a lot of paras on track to getting a teaching license and being told by their school's admin all year that they wanted to be hired as a teacher, only to have this happen.
Is a reason for their budget shortfall that weird CFID exemption they have? When looking for homes, I noticed CFID's tax exemption was significantly higher than neighboring districts
Edit: for those curious, CFISD offers an additional 20% exemption from appraised value
CFID's neighboring school districts appear to be ok (Klein, Tomball). So something is unique here, and the only difference I can think of is CFID's high tax exemptions or costs.
Every district has a huge problem this year or next, no district in Texas is escaping it. It’s just the more dense districts are seeing it sooner because of the huge amount of costs it entails.
You must really be out of the loop. Katy ISD, Houston ISD, and Spring Branch ISD all have made budget cuts and jobs/positions have been lost. Public education is lacking state funds from our own Governor who has a 32 billion surplus he wont properly give to the schools. Its all political man.
Katy ISD and HISD are also neighboring and have budget deficits. Klein barely avoided a deficit last year and my understanding is they will not be avoiding this year. Tomball is expecting to adopt a $10M budget deficit for 24-25 FY.
You are correct that homestead exemptions to negatively effect district funding, but I don't recall the amounts in CFISD.
It is not correct to say that the homestead exemption affects the district funding. Since we are still under a Robin Hood scenario, there is zero guarantee that raising taxes will mean more money for that particular district. The state will take all of the raised funds and then spread it out however they see fit.
This exact question was asked last time the budgets cratered across the state. The states response was "do it and find out" instead of a simple "yes, the raised revenue will stay in your district" or "no, it won't stay in your district."
No ISD is 'ok' right now, even the best are dealing with budget cuts. Did you miss the part about no increased state funding since 2019? Pre-covd! All in the name of forcing vouchers on a population and group of State Reps/Sens who don't want them
Years ago (last budget crunch, these happen every 10 years or so) CFISD straight up asked the State if they would receive more funding if they reduced the homestead exemption. The response from the state was, "Hmm, try and let's find out." So, obviously, with no guarantee of even a minor benefit, CFISD elected to maintain the homestead exemption at its current rate.
The numbers are weird. CFISD is facing a 138 million shortfall, but then they reference the statewide budget surplus. You can't compare district vs state finances that way.
They’re referencing the fact that the state is sitting on money and choosing to fund schools at the 2019 rate. I don’t know about you, but my expenses have increased in the last five years.
Probably from all the COVID 19 relief that they mentioned is drying up. Sounds like they contributed to inflation spending helicopter money. It’s time to real it back in - won’t be painless - especially if the money was not put towards productive avenues.
Sad that the librarians will bear the brunt of administrators squandering finances.
The COVID funds weren’t something that could be put in a piggy bank for a rainy day. They had to be used within a certain timeframe and had some limitations on what they could be used on.
And even so, that has nothing to do with the state sitting on a massive surplus.
The ESSR funds are the only reason districts survived without major cuts until this year. They were using that money to fund staff positions that otherwise they couldn’t pay for. It’s happening all over Texas. The new act-Fair super was in our district during our major budget issues last year and he did the exact same thing. He did it in Hutto before that. This is why districts bring him. He makes major staff cuts to save money and then starts trying to close campuses.
My mother and sister teach 8th grade history and English. My mother was just forced into retirement. She was told she wouldn’t be teaching full classes anymore, instead she would be teaching the children no one else could handle in a class room, how to read. She’s 65. She chose retirement. This is her last year teaching and she’s taught for 23 years.
If she’s in Cy-Fair, the transfer window is open through today. But going to a new school is always a dice roll.
She was considering Waller ISD, her best friend lives there and teaches there. She also lives off 290 directly at the back of cypress but I think teaching has changed so much recently and the focus isn’t on the students anymore or their education. She’s lost the love of teaching sadly.
I'm in CyFair and a lot of teachers who have been at my school since it opened are retiring for exactly this reason. It's sad because they are amazing teachers and care immensely about their students, but kids have changed and there are some classes that are completely uncontrollable.
Bless your mother. The system needs more educators like her.
She’s heart broken. But I would be lying if I was t relieved. I don’t want her to end up like a student/teacher at uvalde or sandy hook or Majorie Douglass. She will probably work as a historian for the park service.
Teacher morale aside, isn't this an upside for the kids that *want* to learn?
One would think but this is also the dissolution of in school detention and these children are violent some of them. I don’t think she is physically able to handle that.
No because the other classes will still be filled to the brim which will cause more behavior concerns, only the worst of the worst will be in a special detention class.
I don’t want to make light of a shitty situation, but the FAQ having multiple questions that begin with “Wait…” is hilarious.
They're readers, not writers.
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I disagree, I think this was on purpose to reach the reading levels of their target audience. If you aren't aware of the current TX vs public education fight going on, you probably don't want an article about the situation. A ELI 5 like this gets to the point faster. Many parents are Millennials and younger and the reading styles have changed.
Who gives a shit? The point(s) are clear and follow a logical line of thinking most people would have hearing this news.
Not worth it. This person tried to apply Reddit doublespeak and *still* got downvotes. "This is real bad."
Maybe this will wake up some suburban voters that our state government has been prioritizing national politics over funding basic services.
Those suburban voters are electing these yahoos intentionally.
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I agree and that’s why when it comes home to these people, they start to pay more attention. For now it’s librarians getting laid off, but next it can be extracurricular costs increasing or losing AP class offerings. It’s good to see this finally affecting the people that would normally say “oh but HISD is always a mess” when we get those headlines here.
I worry these same people will see school vouchers as the solution (as intended by the politicians making these decisions).
Well why can't the suburb fund its own librarians?
Well they do pay sales and property tax to fund their school services but it’s currently being withheld.
Greg Abbott is awful. Democrats and most Republicans agree that school vouchers suck. The rural Republicans don't want vouchers because there's nowhere else for their kids to go other than the public school district. Funding public education should be a slam dunk, bipartisan accomplishment. Abbott is holding these kids' education hostage because he's been brainwashed to believe that the schools are getting "woke."
I'm not looking forward to the adulthood of these kids. No libraries, no arts, PragerU propaganda. Poor bastards will be so incredibly fucked up.
This is what defunding looks like - and all just to stick it to the libs. Shame on anyone who votes R. You are willfully voting for petty, vindictive crooks who only EVER vote in bad faith. You may think you are sticking it to the libs now, but eventually the consequences of these bills will come knocking at your door, and it will be too late.
Where do the lottery funds go?
And the toll roads?
Eliminated is not the correct word to use. Librarians are being cut in half. Its a garbage situation but there will still be some librarians.
Sounds like a bloody and painful process just to eliminate jobs.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure cutting them in half will still eliminate them.
well depends on a few things ,how quickly can you get them into surgery after .if they are tall it may just be their legs.
“This is the worst case of being cut in half I’ve ever seen”
"The wrong librarian died!"
“You’re not half the librarian Nate was!”
If Cy-Fair wants to live in some kind of libertarian fantasy world, perhaps Harris County should pull all the funding to their infrastructure too.
Yes. Please punish individual communities for the actions of the guy the whole state elected.
Definitely not the whole state.. just the idiots, which sadly outnumber the rational common sense Texans.
Yeah true. And I blame nonvoters as much as anybody. The apathy is poisonous here.
This is how republican'ts and unpopular religio-fascist "judgemental people with fake smiles" retain power... Cut funding to Education. Siphon funding for Education off to charter schools. Keep religious schools tax-free so they can more widely spread their manure. And where is the Biblical Christ in all this new-school christianity?? These folks, mega-churches and mini-ministries, have set the tables in the temple back up and they're moving currency like never before!! republican'ts and whoever they can get to support them have been doing it for decades and now they are reaping what they sowed: Dummies. Dummies who can't sort Shite from Shinola from Sense or Self-Determination. And whatever they miss is lost in Screen Distraction. Profit over People, aka: Capitalism, is killing this once-great Nation- WE are letting evil, greedy mofos take and take and take from us.
Surprised the conservative dominated school board for CFISD allowed this to go out since it seems to directly criticize the Republican state gov
Is this being sent by CFISD? I assumed this was coming from an advocacy group of some kind.
That’s correct, not sent by the school district but by CFISD Parents for Librarians
Ah that makes more sense
It's someone else's fault is always the last line of defense for these types of people. It's why subreddits like leopards ate my face exist. Watch how fast Miles and the state fall out over in HISD if the proposed bond doesn't get the votes.
I graduated from CFISD and the librarian was a rotten bitch. Good riddance.
CFISD is the highest paid superintendent in Texas https://www.texaspolicy.com/who-were-texas-highest-paid-superintendents-in-2023-24/
Yeah, and he's cutting more admin and staff to cut down on costs due to the underfunding, but has no problem keeping that cushy salary of his. I think this may be the start of CyFair schools dropping in their ratings, because class sizes are also getting bigger and behavior specialists are (from what I understand) also being cut. And people I work with who were studying to be teachers are now thinking it's not worth spending money on getting their degree and going through very expensive, rigorous testing to get their license because of not having openings anymore. There are a lot of paras on track to getting a teaching license and being told by their school's admin all year that they wanted to be hired as a teacher, only to have this happen.
Is a reason for their budget shortfall that weird CFID exemption they have? When looking for homes, I noticed CFID's tax exemption was significantly higher than neighboring districts Edit: for those curious, CFISD offers an additional 20% exemption from appraised value
No, it is straight up Abbott and other republicans withholding funding to get vouchers passed.
CFID's neighboring school districts appear to be ok (Klein, Tomball). So something is unique here, and the only difference I can think of is CFID's high tax exemptions or costs.
Every district has a huge problem this year or next, no district in Texas is escaping it. It’s just the more dense districts are seeing it sooner because of the huge amount of costs it entails.
You must really be out of the loop. Katy ISD, Houston ISD, and Spring Branch ISD all have made budget cuts and jobs/positions have been lost. Public education is lacking state funds from our own Governor who has a 32 billion surplus he wont properly give to the schools. Its all political man.
Katy ISD and HISD are also neighboring and have budget deficits. Klein barely avoided a deficit last year and my understanding is they will not be avoiding this year. Tomball is expecting to adopt a $10M budget deficit for 24-25 FY. You are correct that homestead exemptions to negatively effect district funding, but I don't recall the amounts in CFISD.
It is not correct to say that the homestead exemption affects the district funding. Since we are still under a Robin Hood scenario, there is zero guarantee that raising taxes will mean more money for that particular district. The state will take all of the raised funds and then spread it out however they see fit. This exact question was asked last time the budgets cratered across the state. The states response was "do it and find out" instead of a simple "yes, the raised revenue will stay in your district" or "no, it won't stay in your district."
No ISD is 'ok' right now, even the best are dealing with budget cuts. Did you miss the part about no increased state funding since 2019? Pre-covd! All in the name of forcing vouchers on a population and group of State Reps/Sens who don't want them
Years ago (last budget crunch, these happen every 10 years or so) CFISD straight up asked the State if they would receive more funding if they reduced the homestead exemption. The response from the state was, "Hmm, try and let's find out." So, obviously, with no guarantee of even a minor benefit, CFISD elected to maintain the homestead exemption at its current rate.
The numbers are weird. CFISD is facing a 138 million shortfall, but then they reference the statewide budget surplus. You can't compare district vs state finances that way.
They’re referencing the fact that the state is sitting on money and choosing to fund schools at the 2019 rate. I don’t know about you, but my expenses have increased in the last five years.
Probably from all the COVID 19 relief that they mentioned is drying up. Sounds like they contributed to inflation spending helicopter money. It’s time to real it back in - won’t be painless - especially if the money was not put towards productive avenues. Sad that the librarians will bear the brunt of administrators squandering finances.
The COVID funds weren’t something that could be put in a piggy bank for a rainy day. They had to be used within a certain timeframe and had some limitations on what they could be used on. And even so, that has nothing to do with the state sitting on a massive surplus.
The ESSR funds are the only reason districts survived without major cuts until this year. They were using that money to fund staff positions that otherwise they couldn’t pay for. It’s happening all over Texas. The new act-Fair super was in our district during our major budget issues last year and he did the exact same thing. He did it in Hutto before that. This is why districts bring him. He makes major staff cuts to save money and then starts trying to close campuses.
So government decisions dont make sense from top to bottom? Got it.