Need money for your schools? The real effects of W's taxcuts?

[underpants]

'Mr. April,' Larry Engels, 65, displays his calendar photo while posing Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2003, in Junction City, Ore. The calendar Engals appears in featuring the men of the Junction City Grange, is the latest Oregon gambit to raise money for local schools, in a state where teachers have already lined up to sell their blood plasma and ranchers have auctioned off the rights to hunt for buffalo and antelope on their property. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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[StClone]

1. Selling Plasma

How apt... thous shall not tax the rich, however.

[underpants]

3. Selling blood and spilling blood

So there was this tax cut and the feds haven't funded "Leave no Child Behind" even though the local schools have to meet the requirements. And there is no more money to fund the LAW because they gave it all away in tax cuts and added to that $455 Billion deficit for THIS year by starting an illegal war based on lies that our/your sons and daughters are...........well spilling their blood.

[trogdor]

2. Sends the wrong message.

Cut us deeper, and we'll just go to greater lengths to supplement funding. I don't buy it. Better to cut the school year to some ridiculous figure - say 145 days, or four days a week. THAT will get parents' attention a lot sooner than these "we care" demonstrations, since they will have to do something about the kids on Fridays (or make it hurt even more by cancelling school on Wednesdays). Parents, bosses, EVERYBODY will be screaming for something REAL to be done. If I were a board member, I would gladly sacrifice my seat in the next election by proposing this if I were pissed off enough.

Class sizes upwards of 45 kids? Absolutely! Army surplus GP-medium tents with kerosene heaters on the school grounds to deal with overcrowding? Hell yeah. 60-degree thermostat settings for those lucky enough to be in the school buildings in January? Go for it! They think cutting costs will do it? This will get people's attention. Piss them off ON PURPOSE. Why? Because they SHOULD be pissed off!

Teachers' union doesn't want to play? Screw 'em. The ends justify the means in this case. Get kids from the community college (or your own high school's senior class) to teach seventh grade English. That seems to be what some people think we should settle for.

I have heard of school districts in California where the local PTA is asking parents to shell out X dollars per kid to make up for funding shortfalls. I'd tell them to get bent - and tell them why.

[underpants]

4. Back in my day we would have been happy to have a tent

Why we stood outside in the cold...... </end old man voice>

Very intersting strategery there Why.

[oneighty]

6. Man!

No school on Wednesdays? That would destroy the world economy, bad enough there is no school on Saturday. Definitely would draw attention though

Get Bent? Old Navy term. Especially among the divers. Ouch!

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[underpants]

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