What's at Stake
What do we have to lose? The extremists have made apparent their desire for even more financial conservatism. Although GCISD continues to do more with less, these critics do not believe it is enough. When nearly 90% of your operating budget is tied up in salaries, cutting the budget so you can reduce taxes means one thing - reduction of personnel and the programs they support. What people and programs are you willing to do without?
Are we better as a district than we were 20 years ago? The short answer is we are different. Incredible things happened for kids 20 years ago as they do now. Twenty years ago we would never have conceived of students graduating high school with an Associate's degree or a variety of technical certifications. We would have scoffed at a virtual campus. We would have questioned the need for bilingualism and biliteracy. We might have even wondered how we would find enough highly gifted kids to create an academy for. Twenty years from now let’s not look back and wonder how we allowed all of this to be discarded.
Are we better as a district than we were 20 years ago? The short answer is we are different. Incredible things happened for kids 20 years ago as they do now. Twenty years ago we would never have conceived of students graduating high school with an Associate's degree or a variety of technical certifications. We would have scoffed at a virtual campus. We would have questioned the need for bilingualism and biliteracy. We might have even wondered how we would find enough highly gifted kids to create an academy for. Twenty years from now let’s not look back and wonder how we allowed all of this to be discarded.