I don't know why anyone should be shocked by what the folks in charge of that school district did...it's standard operation proceedure for government each and every time the tax paying public gets fed up and tries to pull their snouts out of the trough.
If you're a school administrator who's budget has been cut you don't get rid of a few of the high paid administrators you have on salary...oh no!...what you do is tell parents you're sorry but due to buget constraints you have no choice but to cut any and all of the extra curricular activities that makes school enjoyable for kids. You threaten to cut athletics, art classes, music classes, all clubs, the prom, homecoming, school lunches and you tell your parents that THEY will be picking up the costs of school supplies.
That's the crap that's been going on for the past forty years as the teacher's unions dug in and became bigger than the people that pay taxes.
If you're a school administrator who's budget has been cut you don't get rid of a few of the high paid administrators you have on salary...oh no!...what you do is tell parents you're sorry but due to buget constraints you have no choice but to cut any and all of the extra curricular activities that makes school enjoyable for kids. You threaten to cut athletics, art classes, music classes, all clubs, the prom, homecoming, school lunches and you tell your parents that THEY will be picking up the costs of school supplies.
That's the crap that's been going on for the past forty years as the teacher's unions dug in and became bigger than the people that pay taxes.