Volunteer Substitutes

I am going to keep this rant short and sweet as to not make my blood pressure go too high...

ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS!!!!!!

On one hand the idea of volunteer subs for the schools sounds like a good solution to the ever increasing financial problems in the Volusia County School System. I am sure that the vast majority of the volunteers will do a great job and they will have to go through the normal background screening, which I might add will come out of their own pocket.

On the other hand, do we value our children so little that we can't find the money to employ the professionals they freaking deserve?? The volunteers are only required to have a high school diploma and one day of training. Not that I am one to place a lot of importance on a silly piece of paper, but there is a lot of important things about managing a class room that simply can't be taught in one day! ONE DAY!!!! Not to mention the whole issue of actually TEACHING them something!!

I can not even begin to imagine how pissed off I would be if my children were enrolled in the public school system.

For the record, it is not that I think the volunteers will do a bad job. It is the fact that our government does not place enough importance on our children to pay professionals what they deserve to do a very important job.

What's next? Sharing textbooks? Oh wait, they already do that... Cutting extracurricular activities? Oh wait, they did that too... Doubling class sizes? Yeah, you guessed it... Four day school week? Being discussed... Extending walk zone to 3 miles? Also being discussed...

These are just some of the reasons I am amazed when people ask me why I homeschool!!!