Good schools mean more than just quality education (which should really be enough of a reason). Two years ago when Mike and I were looking for our first home, we looked in over 10 different towns.... you know what to know what one of the top three "must haves" was? Good school system! Why? because good schools mean you have a more desirable town, you have an active community and even if we move before we have kids, the next owners may have kids and need a good system and if its between my house in a crappy school system or one in a desirable system, i'm gonna loose -- and then that snowballs into crappy housing markets... it just goes downhill from there. My girlfriend as 19 month old -- she wants to move to an area that is being redeveloped for an arts enclave in Orange/West Orange borders. The apartment sits in the town limits of Orange... first thing I said to her was "you know, Orange doesn't have great schools... i'm just saying you should consider that" -- and everyone I know who has bought a house considers the school system.
Gov Christie is an evil, evil man who will just slash and cut and not think about the residents in this great state. I'm pretty sure you went to school, Mr. Christie, and you wouldn't have had the foundation you needed to get you to your current position (altho, having friends in high places probably didn't hurt either... man politics are nasty). without the help of your teachers teaching you to READ and WRITE.
I ask you, readers, to think of how many people you know personally who is a teacher -- I bet those numbers add up REAL quick. Now, do you want any of them to lose their job? OF COURSE NOT -- so get vocal, write some letters, make some calls and tell Christie to think again -- cutting education is not CUTTING IT WITH US!
next post will deal with allll the other "lovely" things Mr. Christie plans on slashing 'for the greater good'
Mailing address for Gov Christie
Office of the Governor
PO Box 001Trenton, NJ 08625
609-292-6000