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Bob Schaffer: The grant writer cares about the children too. All of these people who work in the school, they really do care about the…

On the recordMay 15, 2002
The grant writer cares about the children too. All of these people who work in the school, they really do care about the kids. But unfortunately, the system we have created for them over the years, the system is a bunch of nonsense, and we have created it for them, because in order for them to get the money to help the child, they have to first learn almost a foreign language in school finance, and they have to become proficient beggars to all of these different levels of bureaucracy. And if they do not figure that out, if they do not hire the expert who speaks in the bureaucratic language and understands which forms to fill out, the timing of these forms, what to say in the forms, even if it is not true, what to put on the forms in order to get somebody's attention up here, if they do not learn all of these things, then the child suffers. So their motivation is very pure.
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Discussing the challenges faced by educators in navigating school finance and bureaucracy.

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