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Originally Posted by wyndslash
It's so sad that school budgets keep getting cut. It's the same scenario here. And to think that education should be governments' top priority too...
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I imagine it is getting pretty hard to be a teacher too. Yesterday, our new state governor announced that he is putting the schools into financial shutdown for the rest of the year. This happens far too often in Alabama. No new supplies will be ordered, and for the 4th year in a row, probably no cost of living raises for teachers. Thirty years ago when I was in high school and they first started doing this, we just brought our own toilet paper every day and sat by open windows to read and/or kill time until 3:00, since the electricity was shut off in my school. It could have been worse, because at least we are in a warm climate, so we didn't freeze without heat.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I wouldn't support this solution. I'd shut down all school libraries and make the kids go to a public library.
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Or use Overdrive to check out books via the school computer. With the falling reader prices, it will soon be a viable option to equip the kids with readers instead of book textbooks.