Special Board of Aldermen Public Hearing Page 39
Paula Johnson
So you're going to use all 10.
Superintendent Brown
We're going to have 42 kindergarten teachers. We currently have 32.
Paula Johnson
So that’s 10. That will be 10 teachers that you’re going to redeploy into kindergarten. So where are
they currently...so you’re going to take the classrooms and you’re going to kind of level them off in all
the schools. So you’re going to just take teachers from different schools and centralize some other
ones where the ones or are you going to be taking them right from that school itself? Okay let me
rephrase this. So which school doesn’t’ have kindergarten. Let’s say Bicentennial doesn’t have
kindergarten am | correct?
Superintendent Brown
Bicentennial does have kindergarten. It’s half time kindergarten.
Paula Johnson
Okay so Say let’s use them as an example. So how many teachers would you be taking to...
Chairman Dowd
Excuse me Mrs. Johnson are these directly related to a budget number because it seems like we’re
having a conversation about class balancing and...
Paula Johnson
You know Alderman Dowd, this is my tax dollars and | have the right to ask all these questions and
get an answer on my tax dollars because I’m trying to understand how this money is going to be
allocated for how many teachers and how many schools that makes sense.
Chairman Dowd
Okay try to please relate your question as it relates to dollars.
Paula Johnson
lam. Sol’m trying to figure this out in which schools. You can’t shut down a citizen asking these
questions. It’s my tax dollars. You cannot!
Chairman Dowd
I’m not shutting you down. I’m trying to direct it to a question.
Paula Johnson
But | am asking the questions and I’m trying to figure out the answer to this. Bicentennial School —
how many teachers?
