So, the school system I'm in currently is in a pretty messed up situation. The school board approved to borrow 3 million, and one of then borrowed an extra 5 million without asking. They all forgot about it for awhile, and now its caught up to them, where theyve had to scramble to bring costs down all of a sudden. This has included cutting a total of 30 staff, mostly janitorial and administrative staff, and shutting down the crossroads school(the kids who got in big trouble, basically.), which moved all of those kids to the highschool. That was just the first wave though. Its a bit later now, and the second wave of publicized cuts is coming; They will shut down an entire elementary school(One of five in the county) and all remaining elementary schools will become by grade, not area. That is, all 1st and 2nd graders go to this elementary school, pre k and Kindergarten to another, etc.. Another cut is the schools someehat mandatory Driver's Ed-Which they make you pay for anyway, and all the equipment(including 2 cars) was donated. The one that's up in the air, however, is the school's Latin class. To give some background info, This school has been open 43 years, and they've had a Latin class all 43 years of it. Spanish is the only other language offered in person, with probably 30 ish kids in each class of two teachers. Latin is not an easy class- A quarter to a half of the Latin one students fail out of it. It's run by an Ex-Marine who has a Masters in Latin (Or something similar- My memory could be off) Who can also teach German. He's currently made to teach 2 classes at one over 2 periods, thst being Latin 1 and 3 at the same time, and Latin 2 and 4, in addition to an extra period watching an online class to fill in the slots left by the people they fired. Spanish is getting a trip to Spain this summer, while to my knowledge Latin has never been granted such a thing. Some of the Latin kids have gone to protest this, having gone to a public school board meeting with an informal petition only for the meeting to be abruptly ended when they asked about Latin during the question section. They haven't given up, going with a more formal petition(That probably has close to 200 signatures by the end of today) and one of them is now signed up as an official speaker at the next meeting. They are considering a radio ad/announcement about it. My question for all of you is, what do you think the best thing is for a solution to all of this? Answer the poll, comment below, everything is welcome. TL;DR: [spoiler]School is trying to cut its only other language due to money problems, what should happen?[/spoiler] [spoiler]For those curious, the person who borrowed the extra money has not faced any repercussions whatsoever, and has moved to a federal school nearby and therefore cannot be touched by the state or county.[/spoiler] Quick Edit:We've also been questioning-What exactly does this save? A single teacher's salary? An elementary school is suitable considering the situation, but what dent does this make, especially when they're already having over 2 weeks of no pay for the teachers for the next couple years?(With no mention of how much this screws over all the teacher's retirement..) Edit 2: Lol, guys, yeah you can see the results...appreciate if you actually decide after though