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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 270818" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">'round here we have to pay to send our kids to summer school.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">This madness of cutting school budgets and laying off good teachers is going on across the country. They are taking away decent education from our children. The only schools making money anymore are the private universities with annual endowments and bequeaths.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">The other day H and I passed one of the very wealthy local prep schools where there is yet further construction going on. This school is located less than 10 miles outside the Hartford city limits - a city where there is not nearly enough funding, public or private for anything new, such as computers or even books, let alone better teachers. It turns out an alumni of the prep school donated enough $$ to build this new 'wing' at the middle school level. Last month there was a HUGE article about an alumni of a private college in West Hartford who bequeathed MILLIONS to the college upon her death. WTH? How about spreading some of that wealth to the areas that truly need it? I've always scratched my head in wonder about this stuff. Doesn't make sense. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">I suppose from a town board member's mind, it's difficult to choose where the cuts will be, but I don't think education cuts should even be on the same table as recreational or town garage funding. Eh?</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 270818, member: 2211"] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]'round here we have to pay to send our kids to summer school.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]This madness of cutting school budgets and laying off good teachers is going on across the country. They are taking away decent education from our children. The only schools making money anymore are the private universities with annual endowments and bequeaths.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]The other day H and I passed one of the very wealthy local prep schools where there is yet further construction going on. This school is located less than 10 miles outside the Hartford city limits - a city where there is not nearly enough funding, public or private for anything new, such as computers or even books, let alone better teachers. It turns out an alumni of the prep school donated enough $$ to build this new 'wing' at the middle school level. Last month there was a HUGE article about an alumni of a private college in West Hartford who bequeathed MILLIONS to the college upon her death. WTH? How about spreading some of that wealth to the areas that truly need it? I've always scratched my head in wonder about this stuff. Doesn't make sense. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]I suppose from a town board member's mind, it's difficult to choose where the cuts will be, but I don't think education cuts should even be on the same table as recreational or town garage funding. Eh?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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