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here in Houston. Of course, there can be a bit more. What I hate is when they start cutting ancillary staff (librarian, art teacher, pe teacher). They always like to cut Nurses. It is a tough choice, another teacher or a Nurse. My contention is that choice is not a valid choice. Funding should be sufficent to provide school staffing. The number of kids without health care is growing. Sometimes a School Nurse is the only medical person this kid will see outside of an ER. I could make much more money in a hospital setting, but my gifts are working with the elementary kids and their parents. School Nurses are hard to find.
I have noticed a lot of ads in Texas lately about how the lottery provides money for schools. The only way many Texans allowed the lotter in was FOR education. What happened is that it goes into the general fund (shades of the lock box) and every few years education is STILL coming up short on funding. AssWipe Perry tried to pull the same shenanigans with the Federal money ear marked for the education for the Katrina kids. He must have gotten a bunch of angry calls because he dropped that idea quicker than an unfaithful at a snake handler's revival. Houston ISD would have gone bankrupt. We have/are spending a fortune in counseling, screening and testing some of these kids. I won't even get into the hours of turoring to bring these kids up to their grade level.
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