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Mark Houghton's avatar

Pay me now or pay me later. Anecdote: At the monthly NAACP meeting on May 2, one of the school board members was there giving a "state of the schools" update and it was mostly about the budget and the 50 teacher spots (and about half that many paras) that will go unfilled because the budget won't support all the teachers needed. A relative newcomer to the community (works in DC; moved to Spotsy for the lower cost of living and "good schools"--his words) said that he didn't know any of this and he's willing to fight for more money but that if he had known these things 2 years ago he wouldn't have moved here. Underfunded--read low quality--public education is a death knell for our community.

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Leigh Anne Van Doren's avatar

Nice to see it laid out. We need to support our children’s education. And treat teachers better. They are the backbone of our society and for too long have been taken for granted and disrespected.

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