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Fairytales for a Practical Princess - 2008-11-30
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9:26 a.m. - 2005-05-18
There's not a lot to report about yesterday, I slept most of the afternoon. I must have needed it, I rarely nap anyhow and I slept through Mike and Ben wailing away with the power tools in the cellar. YAY! The school budget passed! Last year's austerity budget was a misery. Guess folks got the message, this year's budget passed with a 2:1 ratio. Thank goodness. A full budget means Wolf goes to summer school. If the budget had been defeated again Wolf would have been closed out of the summer program. He's been promoted to 'borderline' status in terms of services. If the school is in austerity it means Wolf gets zip. No summer program. No speech therapy. No math lab. All the forward progress he's made this year would be nipped off and there he'd be going into 3rd grade behind the learning curve and behind the eight-ball socially. I've no doubt my boy will catch up with his peers eventually. His progress has been amazing, but he needs consistency to keep his momentum. Pull services for the summer and following school year and he'd be lost. Then it would be into the 4th grade and its Almighty Testing. Podunkville does not take kindly to kids who pull the Almighty Test Scores down. No child Gets Left Behind in Podunkville, they yank the poorly performing kid right out the district. Ship him off to the county school for the profoundly handicapped. Get thee out and good riddance. The bond issue also passed and the district can buy the new school buses it's desperately needed. The school bus bond has been on the ballot for 4 years and had been defeated the previous 3 years. How anyone, even school tax resenting DINKs, could deny kids safe school buses is a mystery. Another mystery is that for all the roaring folks do about taxes a lousy 13% of the eligible voters cast ballots in yesterday's election. When Mike and I went to the polling place last night the voting machines were cobwebby and half the poll watchers were asleep. Okay not really, but damn, 13%??? Be nice if people actually participated and did their civic duty instead of just slapping a plastic flag on their car antenna and bragging on themselves about what patriots they are. This patriot needs to get going. Laundry Mountain looms large. Heh, maybe instead of doing the laundry I'll just climb to the top and stick a flag in it. Tootles, ~LA
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