Children deserve...

Outsource school nursing services!
Outsource guest teachers!
Layoffs!
School closings!
Limited music/arts education or no music/arts education!
EC clubs? Only if the primary goal is to increase scores!!! No dilly dally!
Reading is only to be assessed, not enjoyed!

I've long held the belief that our children are worth BILLION dollar investments!
We invest millions/billions in everything else! Stadiums, war, entertainment, why not education?!?

Children deserve highly qualified, certified, knowledgeable, capable, culturally competent, and caring teachers and faculty! Said faculty who are partly responsible (parents/guardians having a major part) for the education of the future of this country and world deserve to be adequately compensated!

Children deserve bright, attractive, up-to-date, clean, and therefore inviting school buildings! Safe learning and play spaces! Comfortable eating and study places! Green, peaceful, and calm spaces!

Children deserve a wide range of quality social and health services, ESPECIALLY, NOT EXCEPT, children who live in areas where there are higher concentrations of poverty and crime!

Children deserve a curriculum rich in English/Language Arts, Mathematics, History, the Arts, Geography, Science, Technology, Kinesthetics, Foreign Language, and more!

Children deserve a chance at hoping, at dreaming, at wondering, at exploring, at possible!
That takes resources, both financial and human!!

Instead we....I mean...THEY, many (not all) in Harrisburg, City Hall, and 440 N. Broad...send them the message that my children aren't worth it! That children who look like me aren't worth those investments, aren't worth a chance at hoping, at dreaming, at wondering, at exploring, at possible.

They send that message by gutting school buildings of everything that makes public schools, school! They want to cut costs, save money, go cheap! Everyone knows that cheap ends up costing!