jvlsbdrv... "hard core" the parents who ram their kids into the sport THEY played, "back in the day"... enough said.
fearandrhetoric4dummies... so ARE YOU a parent?
And yes - your reference to my screen name "GMOF#... cute..
AND, you've been posting on this forum for a whole whopping 20 days! Yes... YOU are excused from class!

Jody (cass)
I guess you never learned your lesson. Tick Tock, your blogging time under this name is coming to an end.

And I heard that Kandu is organizing. Something about earnig a living wage.

frusion-
I have a great idea "out of the box". It's called RECALL!!
The school district was in finacial hardship before this person took office but not near this bad. There are other cuts that he has made that are just cold hearted. I am not going into detail now. Get those big business' to kick in their share and the hole that the person calling himself governer made himself will be taken care of. The jobs that he is getting credit for creating were already in the making before he took office and what a jerk to bring the GM thing into play, WOW!! I work for the school district and I know what will work and what will not. The things that jodymac keeps bringing up just destroys peoples lives. If things get done her way this city would go down faster than the Titanic. The people that work at the school district help to keep this economy afloat. (before I get comments about that, I did say HELP.) Take away the jobs from them and they will not be able to frequent the business' in Janesville. I know a lot of people want to make union employees public enemy #1 but that just isn't right. The thing that is funny to me is that nobody said anything about union employees until the union buster got in office. I am going to try not to pay attention to these blogs much anymore. They just make me more and more mad. People are just plain mean on here with peoples lives. The people I work with are very caring and just plain good people and we do not need to hear this junk when we are doing a great job and caring for the students of Janesville.
God bless everyone! :-)

The first thing the board(s) need to do it determine what it takes to educate children on the fundamentals, bard boned. No one has even approached that topic. I have heard that some on the board actually run or own their own businesses, utilize some of that business knowledge. Your profits are down you look inside for cost cutting measures. You take all that data and determine what it takes to accomplish your task. Either education or selling a product, the process would be the same. Use the 5S methodology...

Sort
Stabilize
Shine
Standardize
Sustain
Some people include Safety as the 6th. This is a way to reduce waste and run lean.

christforlife don't you have anything to offer other than your one liner's? At least jodymac is thinking out of the box and all you have is "it won't work". We need people like jodymac to think out of the box. You sound like a broken record stuck in the past. How about some ideas from you to make change work instead of pointing at everything that won't work.

Im glad my children are almost done with school in the Janesville school district.Thank you Janesville and you the Wisconsin taxpayer for educating my children.Now that thats done they will take their talents to another part of the country and you cheeseheads are stuck with bill.Isnt it funny how often this is happening in the state.

And jodymac I worked at Kandu...are you xxxxx serious?

I think the schools need better custodial sevices as it is. Having been one in the past I am glad to hear that the students will now be cleaning up after themselves. Wow, I'm even making my self sick on this one.lol. Thanks for the laughs but when you get serious i will post better things.

Jodymac, you mean with rising test scores? Kinda like now? Right?!? And of course they have hundreds of workers down at Kandu (or is it Kandi?)fully capable of replacing all of those workers right now, right? Get a grip.

NO CLUE!!!

jodymac, I have to give you a bit of credit for not copy and pasting this time but that is where the credit stops. You continue to post things that just make no sense. The City of Janesville has not been able to keep up with their own grass cutting because of budget cuts and now you want to add 17 buildings which inculude two rather large high school fields???
Two words for you.....
NO CLUE!!

You need to reduce salaries either by layoffs or payroll. Get the ratio of teachers to student ratio closer to 20:1 and eliminate the states law contributing money to the district to get the ratio down to 15:1 and if the teachers can't handle it get rid of them.

Was the school board meeting this week changed to Thursday so Sodemann, Stottler and Sperry could attend Forward Janesville meeting with Scott Walker? Just wondering??

Jodymac/Cass, don't be suprised to learn that the Gazette did not quote the whole story that Kevin Murray was trying to say. He said the council was forcing the custodial workers into part time work so they didn't have to pay them benefits. He said why not just lay them off instead of playing some game with them. I cannot speak for Kevin but I am 100% positive that he doesn't want any layoffs. He is one of the few on the board who is actually looking to get us out of this mess. Do you happen to own Kandu or something cause your posts are getting really old and laughable. You can change your name all you want but people are not going to listen to the same crappy idea over and over again.

The financial committee has no clue what to do as evident from the meeting the other night. As I posted on another story this is the compelling news that I learned from the financial committee...
1.) Stottler doesn't like it when people blog about her.
2.) Severson thinks blogs are laughable.
3.) They praised the 2 fellows representing the athletics for their presentation and willingness to make cuts and sacrifices.
4.) Severson and Stottler made it clear that they really don't know what to do and Stottler went as far as asking Schulte to give her some sort of vision of what the school district would look like with all the cuts being made.

I don't know if that means a crayon drawing of a room with one teacher and 30 kids or what. I am very scared for the children of our school district after I attended this financial committee meeting. There seems to be no direction at all. Yeah the cuts they recommended are good, long over due in my opinion. I just don't understand why someone doesn't apply some business principals here in this disaster. "Tell me what it would cost the district to run bare bones for a year." That means no excess, bare fundamentals. English,Math and Science. Give me that cost. No start adding extras after that and see where your budget falls into line. 5S the entire district and see what you are left with. Right now it is Schulte recommending cuts across the board and the finance committee just sat there wondering what affect it would have on the district. Lay it all out. I sure hope everone involved ratchets it up a notch cause they have one month left and I believe they are 2 years behind.

-- Cutting the maintenance-projects budget by $1 million, leaving about $500,000. Now there's a hell of an idea lets not do any maintenance for awhile to save money, the buildings and equipment will just be fine and repair themselves! Nothing bad ever happens from the lack of Maintenance.

Charge $100 for a parking permit? Only thing that will do is make the students park on the streets in the neighborhoods, further inconviencing the residents. Another real smart move.

Making the custodians part-time and take away all of their benefits, You really don't want the schools clean do you?

Here's an idea, leave the air-cons turned off and open windows and use fans when the weather is nice. Reduce administration wages and benefits starting at the top with Schulte and working down the chain of command.

The point is GMOF# is that your garbage rhetoric and anger directed towards teachers and unions is just laughable! Look at the list, I am guessing you didnt read it. Is that the kind of tax structure we should have? Giving your tax dollars to the most profitable or the companies that have already recieved HUGE bailouts? These are the policies supported by Walker and the outgoing politicians. Keep blabbering on about greedy teachers while this type of robbery is going on with YOUR tax dollars. I swear sometimes folks are so blind they dont care until THEY get stolen from , oh wait you have(see list) every one of those companies stole from all of us! Justr in the list above there is almost 4 trillion dollars! Is that something to shake your dummy stick at? That is almost 30% of the national debt spread out amongst 10 companies that should be PAYING that much in!
I swear if some of you misdirected people would focus on the real culprits you may see the light I highly doubt that any of you have enough foolish pride to care about the reality or gravity of the situation. If you dont think 4 trillion tax dollars makes a difference locally , you are fooling yourselves.

Kevin Murray, you just got my vote on April 5.

gmof3: I agree that this state and local govs are in a sad state of finance, however Sports programs for "hard core" sports I don't know what you mean by that? And what do you mean the majority of students in our school system do not benfit from sports? I don't think the general public knows of what is taught in sports besides the knowledge of the sport itself.
I see on the field of play from the players good sportsmanship,physical challenges, and good structured workouts of their sport and very interactive play to the team across from them, with that being said I feel their are some students that want to play, some don't, some change their mind about their sport,and some just don't care. Your opinion about sports program benefits a "few" maybe your're right, maybe not, that is one of the reasons why I said that this committee has not done their work to supply the numbers,to justfy the cuts.

In lieu of disparaging remarks about the SDJ, let us take a moment to congratulate the students, teachers, and administrators for the fine job as indicated by recent test results.
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In trying and difficult economic times, it is awesome to see individuals and groups prove that it all not about money and politics as they stepped up and did their part to move Janesville and Wisconsin Forward.
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Here's the story, in case anybody missed it -if you are locked on Fox News etc, it is doubtful you heard.
http://gazettextra.com/news/2011/mar/29/...
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Unfortunately, the voucher students going to private schools did not fare nearly so well-
which is odd, often times those students are screened applicants, as opposed to SDJ which teaches all walks of life.

miss scarlet- you know about as much as jodymac.

jodymac you are a broken record. Give it up nobody is listening to you anymore. walk a mile in one of the jobs you want to eliminate to have Kandu come in and do. Then you can judge. You do not know what you are talking about.

Of course the students will to pay more, and get less - they have no 'representaion' here. Schools originally were intended to educate the students, now it's obvious that schools are intended to employ represented workers, and education is just a sideline.

Set up a sports/extra curriculars referendum. This way we can see if the community supports school sports and extra curriculars. God knows this community is not very supportive of education in general so a general referendum is a waste of time.

People are we forgetting to do a real discuaaion on these proposes? For example are we cutting all those coaches positions that were listed just for the money saved? Are we overlooking the "safety" of the sports involved just to save the money? Another thing, Would the increased in parking lot fees bring added revenue? or less revenue? would the increase bring in more parents bringing their students to school or riding the bus? Would it bring more accidents in the parking lots or around schools?
What is ment by cutting the Apparel budget? I for one are very proud of the uniforms that the students wear to their games,by cutting what are they going to look like? I really think the increase in gate fees are ok. Questions should be asked is this gate fees are all Sports? Lets go to Middle School Sports, cutting all sports and intramurals on this level, when the students at this age should be able to try all sports.I think it is a mistake to cut, I wonder that if it is done how much will it cost taxpayers in the long run? like jail,drugs,etc.
I think this committee did not do very much research on the above matter. Also cutting out Girls Hockey,maybe ok, but what would it do to Title 9? Maybe the Board should go back and cut out new programs that it approved of (like Chinese) the past years! Lets have some constructive talk on this article instead of talking or shouting to one another

Please consider a fee for middle school sports as an alternative to cutting them out completely.

Spend $170,000 or so on a wall at Craig H.S., but cut all middle school sports that cost less than the wall. What the heck are we doing?

Lol! The video gaming industry spends more money on research and development than the US spends on education! Go figure!

What is your point? These companies did not throw our state into financial ruin. Previous "politics" and the "rob Peter to pay Paul" did! You're also bringing up FEDERAL taxes. We are in need of fixing our state financial situation. If the breaks aren't slammed on spending, we will be known as the "black hole" of America.
I agree with many of these cuts. Sports programs, while entertaining and worthwhile for "hard core" sports kids, does not benefit the majority of kids in our school systems. I would prefer to see kids get DAILY gym classes that involve sportsmanship, physical challenges for their healthy development and a chance to experience a bunch of different interactive structured work outs.
The well-being of our children in school should feed the mind AND the body. I just feel that the sports programs benefit a "few" while others are left in the bleachers. Just my opinion...

But let's continue the corporate tax cuts.

1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings.

2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.

3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS.

4) Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.

5) Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year.

6) Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.

7) Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

8) Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury.

9) ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2007 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.

10) Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1 percent.