Furlough Days

[Nalu]

Just a side note on the limited interest in county furlough programs. It may be that a lot of parents don't need this, have grandparents available, aunties/ uncles, or like myself work from home. I would rather do arts and crafts with my son here at home then send him off to a gym with strangers and lots of bigger kids. I, too think that there was a lot of advertising going into this, maybe because I read the paper every day.
On another note, I just saw today that Imiloa will be offering science activities for k-8th, this sounds promising, and the Arts Center, sorry forget the proper name will be having art lessons for k-8th at $20 a day. This sounds neat too. One thing that can't be debated is that this affects people of all walks of life and is controversial and hurtful to most everyone. I think there is a lot of passion and emotions involved when we start messing with the lives of our children. There was a letter in the paper today, try to read it, from the chairman of BOE, he in effect answers some of my questions and ultimately places the blame on Lingle for drastically cutting education funding. He said that administration pay/costs only amounts to 5% of the total education costs, and even if this were to be cut would not balance the buget deficit. Angela