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Day of Action

On the 14th, all the schools in our area took the day off to drive on over to Olympia and protest the dear ol' Govna's proposed budget cuts. Not just teachers, but also students, superintendents, parents and school board members.

It was freezing cold standing out there, but worth it I suppose. I wish there had been more people protesting, but that just illustrates our point. We don't have the people to make up what for us would be a HUGE budget shortfall. We don't have any "extras" to cut - we do actually need things like heat and buses.

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