okay um
the one of the things that i've heard uh many people complain about the school systems was that
they didn't feel like uh people were dedicated to teaching their children
uh-huh
or their heart really wasn't in it you know so what they went and got a degree and and everything but it wasn't
their not doing it just because they want to
are you saying the teachers or the parents
the teachers the teachers
uh-huh
you know
well how do you feel about that
well i guess i
have mixed emotions on one hand
i think golly the pay isn't good enough if you didn't really want to do it
yeah you shouldn't be doing
it's probably something else out there
but on the other hand i think that maybe some people have thought that was kind of an easy way out
you can major in something basically useless to the world as a whole like say Spanish or geography geography being one of my favorite subjects but
uh-huh
yeah
oh really
nevertheless it's not exactly the thing that's going to make you bucks
right
but you could then go ahead and get a
teaching certificate and perhaps
feed your family a little
yeah what do you think about the the recent bill that was just passed you know where
uh
they're taking the money from especially the the Dallas area
you're calling from Texas then
school
oh oh yeah i'm in Dallas Texas
i'm in Plano
okay yeah they're taking uh
the money from our schools here and distribute it some of the other outlying and and especially like west Texas what
um-hum um-hum
what do you think about that because it's it's you know the money's coming from us here that live here and work here and
well
i have always believed in sharing
uh-huh
you know if my neighbor next door was hungry and they needed something to eat or something to wear i'd be glad to share and so i guess in the global sense you have to have that kind of feeling to a certain extent but
right
i also don't believe that people who get funds or equipment or anything without some of their own personal input
uh-huh
take care of it nicely or appreciate it or use it properly
right
uh
those things have to be taught
excuse me yeah i agree you know
so
you know so there's that end of it too and and i think it's going to really
you know so i don't
i don't say that in a selfish way because i think there that it's probably not totally equitable
yeah
and i don't know that there is a good situation entirely but golly
yeah
it sure going to make a big difference in our school system
yeah it is
you know it uh i was um-hum i was talking to a friend in Irving who sits on a parents advisory council with the Irving Independent School District and she was saying they are number one
Plano yeah
they are adding next year they are adding thirty minutes to their school day
uh-huh
in order to accommodate the extra teaching that's going to be needed
because they're eliminating all aids
they're going to they all aids all paid aids everything is going to have to be volunteer through the parent teacher organizations
oh really
uh-huh
uh-huh
and frankly we're all ready maxed out with parent you know uh volunteer
yeah
work i work part-time out of my home and they did you know
uh-huh
i'm always getting called and you know and used utilized you know what i'm willing to do it but i know during the days when i was uh just not a working mom at all it was ridiculous
yeah yeah
they call you all the time
uh yeah yeah until i just finally had to say
i am so sorry that you know just cannot do everything for you
um-hum
yeah
but uh
i agree
you know so there's and and the moms that work a lot of times just can't help at all and yeah
right well i i i believe that the school puts a big demand on the students on the teachers and the students for for the fact that they expect the parents to go out and
a lot of times chauffeur or lot of times you know buy a lot of things that might seem unnecessary but i it's unreal on the cost of sending a kid to school because of you know you spend your time voluntary and
um-hum
plus you buy a lot of extra arts crafts aids things like that notebooks for reports
so many
yes
well and just you know the yearbook and the T-shirt and the teachers presents and the you know it really starts
right
you know we have five children so i know that it really
projects
oh my goodness so you really do yeah like uh all types of projects little bug things you know that
you know
um-hum i just helped a little girl yesterday a teenager friend of ours she had to prepare something for to study Greece
uh-huh
and they were i think she needed a recipe and the history of of the recipe or the type of food and also um
had to actually make it and bring it enough to serve you know fifteen people and i found the cheapest thing i could find that i could help her with and even so figuring it up i think she spent close to twenty dollars
oh my gosh
yeah
um and it was say you know we did a couple of different ones and it was the least expensive and
uh-huh
and still be able to fix it at home and tote it up there and what not so
right
but that's
that's amazing because if if every child does that what are they going to do with all that
yeah it's a lot of money
yeah and would they really eat it of course that's not really you know the quality of education
yeah
um-hum
but
you know i think that probably you know here in Plano we are
uh of course state legislature you know added uh five days next year
right
and uh i think we're going to be seeing alternative calendar very soon i i'm still basically against it although i i do understand the positives
uh-huh
that are you know touted but i think overall
how do you feel about the Plano school system you feel like it's pretty good compared to the others surround you know Richardson and Allen and
there is a quality of excellence expected here it's very difficult
for the children in this school district to
excel in more than one area
right
because if you get into drama if you get into speech if you get into drill team or athletics or whatever it is i mean they want you night and day they want your time they want your blood
oh really
yeah money and
you know so
and uh you know i have children who
been fortunate enough to be in in these extra curricular things but golly
you know it's just really you know it's like a smaller school system you know you could be in the drill team and you could be cheerleader too and you could be you know on the football team and still be on the basketball team and still try out for band you know
real demanding
basketball
right
yeah that's amazing
so
you know that and you you can't do that in this school system so you know we've been working on college stuff for my oldest daughter and shoot you know
that's a
that's a big difference
uh-huh
that uh you know you kind of
you know you have to to look when we were writing things down i said you know you can't really talk about all your individual things but you know you've got to make sure that when you put down band here that it's not just any old band that this is a band that took
this honor and that honor and participated in this competition and participated in that competition so they understand really
uh-huh
right right
that's wild
well it's been good talking to you
well yeah this is uh this is interesting interesting topic
thank you uh good night bye-bye
thank you Jackie have a good day bye-bye
