We’re not being silent. Are you?

“[T]he bigger issue is the deafening silence from people who should care about our schools but aren’t speaking out.

“Where’s the outrage from rural communities whose schools will lose tens of thousands of dollars in state aid which are necessary in order to continue providing a quality education?

“Why aren’t people challenging the mental and intellectual stability of lawmakers who have no problem with passing a school finance plan that not only steals away money that schools were expecting to receive in this year’s budget, but provides them with less money in each of the next two years? Is there anyone out there who believes they can live on less money two years from now than what they’re living on today?

“Lawmakers try to spin this insanity as ‘local control,’ which is simply another way of saying local taxpayers will have to make up the difference. Either that or cut teaching staff, reduce programs or close their doors.

“And we wonder, ‘Is this really where we want to go?’”

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