I have been following the issues with the Olympia School District and am disappointed in the outcome of the budget decisions. Community members, parents, and students took the time to show up for the forums and voice their priorities. Keeping teaching positions was the overwhelming top priority. This priority was ignored and new administrators (hired out of the reserve funds to begin with) were kept at the expense of teaching positions. The end result is larger classes and less flexibilty for class offerings at the school level, due to larger class sizes. This means raising class sizes in OSD for the second time in less than 5 years.

I appreciated the letter to the editor today from Stephen Bray. I hope that educators and parents can come together to correct the trajectory that OSD is racing along.

What are others hearing on this issue? What are the solutions?