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.