Originally Posted by Az B
A friend of mine teaches school. The first thing he did upon hearing this news was call me to see if I wanted to go riding Monday and Tuesday at a trail about an 80 mile round trip from his house.
So construction is more important than education? Georgia schools are already number 50 in the nation. At least Bill Clinton managed to get Arkansas schools up to 49th. As a person living in Georgia, I can attest to the fact that these people need more education more than they need more roads.
The other thing the Gov. did was to eliminate the state fuel tax to help keep gas prices low. Here again, he's not thinking ahead. Keeping gas prices low simply encourages people to go drive more. If we need to conserve, he needs to raise the tax to about a dollar.
Az
Bingo, instead of some teachers driving to school and home Monday and Tuesday they will see it as an oppurtunity drive all over the place doing errands, shopping, and going on short vacations. They will end up using more gas. How many of them do you think will actually stay at home and not use their cars for two days? I don't see that happening.
Also, eventhough students will probally not have to make up these days the teachers will at the end of the year.
Most businesses can not afford to be closed for two days how can we justify closing school for two days?
Is the value of education in the state of GA that low on the list? Losing two days of instrucational time with our future is not the answer. There has to be a better longterm answer to this problem.