RH Jones: Springfield kindergartners raising school funds door-to-door

From RH Jones, January 29, 2007
Subject: Kindergarten children begging door-to-door to save school

To all:

What has our Ohio come to when kindergartners and their teachers have to beg for proper funding by going door-to-door to homes and businesses with their hats in their hands? Has school funding dropped such a low level that kids have to "trick or treat" for support? In Springfield, Ohio they are selling their candy and other goodies door-to-door in order to keep their kindergarten school open. Their school district has lost so many levies that it is being forced into such drastic measures to try to raise funds to save their kindergarten school.

In avoiding its responsibility (rotten to this CORE) over the past dozen years or so, Ohio has cut funding for public school districts so much that it is now time to paste it where it belongs at a level of necessary support where logical and reasonable people should expect it to be. Is this asking too much from our political leaders, I wonder?

RHJones, (CORE) Concerned Ohio Retired Educator for life