Comments made at the Parkersburg hearing Both the West Virginia Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers showed up to protest the proposed changes in their members' work schedules and work loads without additional compensation. A kindergarten teacher observed that no reason was given for taking away the full-time kindergarten aide and, since aides would also be valuable in first and second grades, asks the board to make a commitment to provide them. A kindergarten aide asked that administrators, instead of kindergarten aides, give up half of their day to help out in first and second grade classrooms . The only legislator to speak publicly suggested that, among other changes, we return to electing our state school superintendent. Art and music are excluded from core programs.
Money is allocated for after school and summer programs without specifying what the programs are.
The plan is not only unconstitutional, but treasonous.