Finally, Friday

Our state legislative session ended last night. Crazy stuff about our public schools happens every year during the legislative session, but this year was less crazy--or at least, less observed--than normal. I just wish there was some way to truly fund the schools like the schools need funding.

Yesterday I sat in a School Community Council where we discussed and finally decided on our school's Trustlands Proposal and the School Improvement plan and all the respective goals for the upcoming year. We had $60K+ goals and only $45K Trustlands funding. We discussed some painful cuts before reconciling the items we chose to fund. We had to get pretty creative.

The entire time, I was getting more and more irritated thinking that we were scrimping to cut out $15,000 from our proposal while certain corporate businessmen are personally collecting million dollar bonuses in the middle of another down economic year. I just keep thinking that society's priorities are so skewed.

At one point in fact, Mr. E (the principal) asked what my concern was--seeing my face he knew I was concerned. I just blurted out that if I were Queen of the World this problem would not exist. Schools would get all the funding they could handle and professional sports players would have to hold carnivals and bake sales to fund their teams.

If only I had that kind of power! Our kids would have smaller class sizes, and the highest qualified teachers. I'm sure my perfect world scenario would include other "societal corrections" but that would make me drunk with power.