Jenny G Cuts Schools Lifeline Off

Last week Jennifer Granholm vetoed a bill that would have given Michigan more money. Why they waited until the last second to pass the bill I don’t know. Without the money the school is in a seven million dollar deficit. Stevenson and other schools in Michigan already had their yearly budget laid out but now we have to come up with the money to break even at the end of the year. We have to act fast or there could be dire consequences. Some of the consequences could be, we could lose our athletics for the remainder of the year. Without athletics, kids would have nothing to do after school and might not be able to concentrate in school because they would have nothing to look forward to after school. Another could be we would lose the buses and would no longer be able to take them before and after school. Without the buses there would be longer lines than there are now for moms and dads to drop off their kids. It would not be able to work. Last they could do the worst thing, cut teachers. It would be tragic to cut teachers in the middle of the school year, because they couldn’t go teach anywhere else because all the other schools already have the year planned out with teachers. So they would be out of work and money. Also we would have to rearrange the whole second semester schedules because the teacher you might have gotten was cut.
What I think they should do to get the money back is either hold off until the school year ends so the teachers can keep their jobs, sports can stay for the rest of the year, and buses will stay. Then if they need to change something they can do it the next year instead of last second in the middle of they year. They could also try to write letters to people in Lansing to get them to try to compromise to make a bill that would give Michigan schools some money even if it isn’t all they hoped for.
Whether they make a new bill or Michigan schools have to come up with the money, we have to act fast. Millions of kids are depending on the leaders in Lansing to finally make a decision so we can keep going to school without worrying if we will still have buses, sports, and the same teachers.