SC teachers made decision about aides

To the editor:

After the recent Speak Out comments about the Scott City School District, I am compelled to reply. I feel my 28 years of teaching at Scott City will give credence to my response.

The school board in November hired a football coach for the 2004-05 school year. His salary will come from that year's budget and will have no effect on the current year's expenditures nor increase them next year.

As to the teacher aides lost to budget cuts, most of them were in the elementary grades where class sizes are already limited as a matter of board policy. At the school board meeting, teachers' representatives to the salary committee were asked by board members if they would rather have the aides or a salary increment increase. They opted for the pay raise. It was the teachers who made this choice, not the administration or school board.

I would hope that any future comments from faculty members would contain the correct information and include their names.

ROGER L. ALLGOOD

Art Teacher

Scott City High School

Scott City