The biggest thing that is weighing on my mind is I want to be recalled back to my job. I have been laid off for a little over a year and while this past year has been productive, I am ready to return to making my own money and to the feeling of being independent from my husband. For you married women, you know what I mean ; ) The job I do is nothing special. I work in a drab and dingy, cancer infested steel mill. But it allows for me to pay for my college without being beholden to Uncle Sam. Who the hell wants $ 50,000 in debt upon graduation? In this unstable job market? Ugh, no thank-you! I'm too old for that, plus I have 3 kids, one whose not so far away from college. So I am hoping and praying to get recalled soon. Okay enough of my bitching about that, its time I pull up my "big-girl undies" and keep pushing forward....
Another thing that is weighing on my mind is all the budget cuts that keep happening to our public schools. A teacher who has been in my girls school for years is about to be laid off this Friday, the media specialist whom I volunteer for had her hours cut to three days a week and is expected to see 400 kids during that time all the while coordinating programs, and book fairs, etc... the music program is endangered, one elementary school was closed down, there was no preschool program offered this year for the little ones and those teaches were sent to the unemploymnet line. My kid's school can't even afford to keep the outside security lights on at night anymore, (and yes already some jack-off called in a bogus fire threat which cause the po-po and fire dept. to be dispatched. WTF? What is wrong with people)? I wrote my senator pleading with him to find a smarter solution to the state budget crisis than cut backs in education, (as if our kids don't have it hard enough already). His reponse? 1. Vague assurance that he was on top of the situation. 2. Assurance that his "vague"response was more than what the republicans were willing to do. Gee thanks! Good looking out for the kiddos. Politicans! What a joke they are!
Well thats whats on my mind ......
Another thing that is weighing on my mind is all the budget cuts that keep happening to our public schools. A teacher who has been in my girls school for years is about to be laid off this Friday, the media specialist whom I volunteer for had her hours cut to three days a week and is expected to see 400 kids during that time all the while coordinating programs, and book fairs, etc... the music program is endangered, one elementary school was closed down, there was no preschool program offered this year for the little ones and those teaches were sent to the unemploymnet line. My kid's school can't even afford to keep the outside security lights on at night anymore, (and yes already some jack-off called in a bogus fire threat which cause the po-po and fire dept. to be dispatched. WTF? What is wrong with people)? I wrote my senator pleading with him to find a smarter solution to the state budget crisis than cut backs in education, (as if our kids don't have it hard enough already). His reponse? 1. Vague assurance that he was on top of the situation. 2. Assurance that his "vague"response was more than what the republicans were willing to do. Gee thanks! Good looking out for the kiddos. Politicans! What a joke they are!
Well thats whats on my mind ......
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