Archive for September, 2007

We Give Our Kids a Tee Shirt

September 13, 2007

Printed on the front and back;
Stand up for what you believe in …
… even if you are standing alone.
How much better, if instead of a tee shirt,
we offered something more.
By standing behind them offering support, and
By standing beside them in their sacrifice; and
By standing in front of them, leading by our example.
Here is [...]

Funding Education Adequately

September 13, 2007

The perfect number of dollars to dedicate to educating our children; would be the highest number we can imagine, which is not then wasted.
The paradigm as it now exists;
voter/taxpayers are given a choice of underfunding education,
or raising taxes.
Voter/taxpayers are not allowed to choose between art in the schools and art along the freeway.
If they were [...]

Funding Priority

September 8, 2007

I’m wondering how this community is going to pay for a school police force.
I’m wondering how we are going to pay for all of the after and out of schools programs all of our children need.
I’m wondering how we will pay for all of the interventions and preventions our at risk sons and daughters need.
And [...]