June 28, 2018, Isle, MN, Mille Lacs Messenger: Isle Schools - Student body decrease spurs 2019 spending deficit http://www.messagemedia.co/millelacs/community/education/isle-schools---student-body-decrease-spurs-spending-deficit/article_d1d362c0-7947-11e8-a080-b3993df07ab0.html Due to a decrease in students, among other factors, the projected budget would see deficit spending of around $95,000. Director of finance Heather Hipp led the board through an overview for the budget for next year. A primary concern affecting the budget was a projected loss of 15 students for the coming year, due in part to the graduation of a large senior class. Expenditures were expected to increase by $55,631. Contracts for the 18-19 school brought with them an increase in salary and benefits. There was also an increase due to health insurance. Hipp cited an increase in the costs for special education as well, adding the school had hired new paraprofessionals. … …State-based revenue would see a decrease due to the smaller student body as well. While the lower student count would also decrease revenue from meals served, Hipp added this year would not see an increase in meal prices. “That’ll be a nice thing for the families this year,” she said. …
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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