I Guess Sumthing Had to Go

You all can click on this link and get the details for yourself, but the gist of this story is that with the budget deficits many states are facing, states have to make some hard decisions about which programs to keep or cut, and many have decided, oh, that ummmm summer school is expendable.

That's fine if you have alternative programs in place for the kids to attend instead. But of course, this is not the case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/education/02school.html

Nearly every school system in Florida has eviscerated or eliminated summer school this year, and officials are reporting sweeping cuts in states from North Carolina and Delaware to California and Washington.

The article uses the Brevard County Schools in Florida as an example. Last year almost 14,000 students were taking free summer classes. Now those students are at home or at the mall (watching that dam* BET or in the street) because summer programs have been eliminated or stripped to the bare minimum.

Let me tell you something, I went to college in Florida and many of my classes were full of Floridians educated in the Florida Public School System. Can I be real with you right now? Don't get offended, please. It was in those very classes that I learned college is not entirely home to the "brightest and best." If anybody needs as much school as they can get, it's them Florida chillrens. I'm just sayin......

Meanwhile, we here in Detroit have summer school, but our ungrateful behinds have used the last two weeks as an opportunity to get caught up on our beefs from the school year and whatnot and shoot each other up. Seven people were shot at a bus stop last week. If I'm a parent, I would be Up-and-Set, thinking I'm doing the right thing by sending my child to school, and he may well have stayed home on the porch....ya lil gurl can stay home all day and sneak boys over to the house, or she can go to school and get shot...it's lose-lose out here.