Blog #12

In Kristen Grahams article "Philadelphia superintendent identifies schools he intends close" she talks about how Philadelphia school district's superintendent William R. Hite is deciding to close down 37 schools for several reasons. "Thirty-seven buildings would close for a savings of about $28 million, money the nearly broke district says it needs to survive" say Graham. This shows that the economy is shutting down children learning to save money. The article also talks about how space in some schools are a reason for them being shut down. According to the Inquirer staff  "some buildings are dramatically underutilized. Shaw Middle School in Southwest Philadelphia has 193 students in a building that has room for 1,071 ." This shows that some schools are being shut down foe positive reasons. There are few who agree that taking schools to save money is effective and many who disagree with this recession. Mayor Nutter agrees. He states "In the end, it will be safer, better-equipped schools capable of meeting the educational needs of the schoolchildren", while Jerry Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, disagrees completely. Jordan states "I am very, very concerned about the decisions that have been made by the school district". I think that the schools should stay the way they are and the government should cut the money off thats going towards unnecessary things. By cutting off welfare and ssi we could save billions of dollars