A Teacher’s Thoughts on the Assembly’s Budget   I stood in the
kitchen.    * * *        * * *      * * *       * * *   Teach
on.  Members of the General Assembly,    22 thoughts on “A
Teacher’s Thoughts on the Assembly’s Budget    1. As a 40 year
veteran of this system, I am heartened to see someone with as
much passion for teaching as I have fought to maintain. Please
stay the course the children of our state deserve you and many
more like you. THANK YOU    2. We are voting! Last time, we
voted for a former teacher in hopes that she would improve the
conditions for for education. One of the first acts of her
administration was to take monet from our paychecks to balance
the budget! When that didn’t work, we voted for someone who
promised to make it better. What is a citizen to do?      • It’s
not so much the governor because really the members of the
general assembly make the decisions. Our last governor did try
to make changes but the assembly refused to pass them. Her hands
were tied. It’s them we need to