I am sitting outside my kids' school waiting to pick them up and go camping. So I am always a bit uncomfortable posting from the road.
Today the State of California's May revision of the budget is out and the news sucks all around. On the radio they are discussing the anti-gang and rehibilitation program Home Boy Industries can not continue without funding. A caller mentioned that the City of Los Angeles spent 30 million on Opera this year. In tough budget times do we really need opera? I hate to pick on the arts and I won't... But the caller has a point. The Gates and Eli Broads of the world need to give until it hurts and to more than opera.
A couple things I think LAUSD needs to reconsider?
1. Free lunch - why? People should feed their own kids. I don't believe the argument that kids need more nutrition - there is an obesity epidemic. And the crap they serve is not nutrious. The program loses huge amounts of money. It's archaic and out of date.
2. Drive your own kid to school or walk. Get rid of all school buses. Putting 6 kids on a bus from the city to the valley is wasteful. Go to your neighborhood school or use your own resources to get to a different school.
3. Stop wateful spending on school reports mailed out in duplicate and parents' summits at the LA Convention center with free Starbucks coffee and free lunch. Give me a week at LAUSD administration carte-blache and I will find a ton of things to save money on.
Off to camp.
- excuse the typos...posted via Windo's iPhone
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