Positively moving forward

[awest1217]

Not exactly anymore. A couple of years ago the legislator passed a bill to cap property taxes and at that point the property taxes decreased dramatically and dramatically decreased school funding so it went from property taxes paying to the state funding it and when that happened the state completely took over.

It is all a real mess. One teacher who went to a rally yesterday at the statehouse said some politicians listened, but many had nasty things to say like "if you are here and care so much about our children then who is teaching our children now?" and others were very dismissive. It is all so sad.

I love my job and I love to teach, but right now it is so hard to stay positive and motivated when I think I will need to find a new job to support myself and S because the state is becoming so power hungry. The only positive is in two years we get a new govenor and prayfully he/she will be more education minded instead of money minded.

It is funny because at the beginning with this new govenor he leased the toll road to a foreign company and now he is potentially leasing our public schools to private for profit companies to create charter schools just to save some dollars for the state all in the name of what he says "education reform". Non of what is proposed is founded on any actual studies that prove it will help students. It is all sad...