School cuts misdirected

Great letter on May 4 from Kathy Brooks about school administrators being protected.

My daughter has taught for District 81 for 20 years, mainly in a low-income grade school which has children with many difficulties. The plan now is to increase her class size, take away the counselors that work with many of her students and decrease her wages.

When I ask my daughter how her day was, she often tells me about the child that now lives in a car, one who only gets the meals served at school and another who has been put in foster care. Many teachers deal with these problems as well as teach the children and, of course, make sure their “test scores” are excellent. How do you do this with no help from counselors and an increase in your students?

Do any of the school board members have any knowledge of what goes on in a classroom? Have they ever visited the schools? And how can the administrators sit there in their offices and increase their wages and decrease the most important people in the district – those that teach our children?

Kathy Blanch

Spokane