RCSD teacher and parent
Many stakeholders in the system point to the significant amount of money being spent in the system that does not always seem to reach or benefit students. For one teacher, Paul, getting resources to families is crucial to the district’s ultimate improvement. Here is Paul’s story:
“The biggest point is we are pouring money into the bank accounts of the middle class – teachers, 
administrators, counselors, social workers, security officers. We’re pouring money into agencies, great agencies, and essentially, we have kids drowning in water and all these people with life jackets are swimming over. These life jackets are the money we’re pouring into the bank accounts. We’re trying to teach the kids how to swim. What if we gave the kids a life jacket? Wouldn’t that actually be better? But that would require us giving money to the children’s parents so they’re no longer in poverty.
“It’s not an education issue. It’s a political issue. I would say schools need to do what they’re doing. The social agencies need to do what they’re doing. Federal, state, local funds, whatever funds we’re using, ask yourself, ‘Why are we giving money to everybody but the bank accounts of poor children’s parents?’”
Yes indeed. And I ran into this. We can communicate on this theme. Here or at PM.