Education? Expendable!

As you all know, California is scrambling to handle the possible budget cuts our way. There have several reports that every school district is going to lay off hundreds of teachers. This is a possibility. In my school district alone, 100 teachers were told they might not have a job next year. How is this all calculated? The answer is seniority. Hired last, fired first. Luckily I was saved from this round of layoffs, but who is to say that I will always be safe? How can the governator take so much money away from education? How can he sit in his pretty little chair and take money away from the children? I find it difficult to trust this man who was all about education before he became governor. But now that he needs to reduce the state spending, he decides to take money away from our future.

How can this be a good a idea? Isn't there a better way? There has to be. How can we compete with the rest of the world if we won't invest in it? The state of this country makes me worry everyday for Kayla. Why can't we fix the things that are wrong in our country before we begin to butt into the affairs of other countries. Why don't we spend defense money to defend our borders? Why don't we focus on saving the US first? I wouldn't mind paying a couple extra dollars in taxes if it meant good teachers would keep their jobs. Maybe they should find a way to weed out bad teachers before they layoff good teachers because they were hired last. If you have the time, write to your representative and tell them that this is a travesty. Let them know how you feel about it all.

Is the ability to be accident prone hereditary?

It has been sooo long since I have written a blog, that I felt it was time. A couple weeks ago, Kayla broke her arm. She fell out of the booth at the Lazy Dog Cafe in Huntington Beach. This just goes to show you that even a small fall can cause a lot of pain. We took her to the emergency room and found she had a small fracture in her arm. She had to have a cast placed on her arm. Three weeks later I took her back to the doctor where he took off the cast but the arm was still broken. So, she is currently in a shorter cast for another week and a half.

Meanwhile, two weeks after Kayla broke her arm my mom and stepfather took Kayla to the park. My mom took Kayla down the slide where she began to tip over. To brace her fall, she put her foot into the ground. Needless to say, her foot did stick but the rest of her leg kept moving. My stepfather had to walk Kayla back to the house while my mom sat on the ground in pain. He got the car took her the ER where they took xrays that showed my mom had broken both bones in her leg above her ankle.

This would cause my mother to have surgery on her leg. The break was so major it took a metal plate and eight screws to put it all back together. She just went to the doctor yesterday to get a permanent cast. She took pictures, gruesome. The incision had to be about a foot long on each side of her ankle. I could not believe the sight of it in the pictures. The doctor placed another cast on her foot and told her she had to stay off of it for another month. He even told her she wouldn't be putting any weight on it for four months. I cannot believe that my mom goes from chasing Kayla around the house to sitting in a chair and getting up only to pee.

Now, if you know anything about me or my brother you know how we have the craziest injuries to ourselves as well as the people around us. ME: both ACLs torn, broken jaw, knocked out a tooth and cracked the two next to it, broken collarbone, several sprained ankles. ERIC: broken collarbone (twice), hyperextended arm, several stitches, several sprained ankles. Could all this be hereditary? Is is possible Kayla is destined to be accident prone? Let's all hope and pray she isn't. This is all I handle at the moment.