How Much Say Do You Have?

Oven baked chimichangas are in the oven. Two kids done with homework, one left to finish theirs, and Lane is crying. Sounds like a regular night here at our house.

I'm going back and forth between attending the 2nd budget cut meeting the school is holding. I attended the first on Tuesday night, and there is a 2nd tonight. At the first, we learned a lot and a little, all at the same time. Tonight, it's a parent led meeting, which makes me hopeful we might get more answers.

I understand that everyone nowadays is having to make ends meet. But when you discuss our children and their education, we tend to get a little snippy. There are choices that the school board is going to have to face. Do you cut elementary library, or middle school band? And those ARE some of the things on the chopping block. As is closing down an entire elementary school, and shuffling the kids into the other 3 we have in town. I wish we had more say, and maybe at some point, we WILL have a say. But up to this point, we haven't.

It's a frustrating thing, and there are always questions you will never have the answers to. At least not an honest and direct answer anyway. But attending the meeting is as close as it comes to being active and showing concern. So it looks like I'm in for a night of budget discussion.