School Funding

     School funding is a big issue at our school. We've had lots of money issues, and we've had lots of teachers and employees that have had to be laid off. We've tried to do fundraisers and box tops but nothing is helping. We are still in dept after all we have done. Some of the administrators have said that soon we will need to take away our sports. That won't help! That'd make a lot of people mad and we wouldn't be able to play any sports. Even though they complain about our health!
     There is now talk about the busing being cut. That will create a huge problem!! We use the buses because some of our parents work and can't come pick us up. None of the administrators can think about anyone else. I know that if they were those parents they would be absolutely furious!! We can't take away the buses because that is our transportation. If they get rid of the busing what will they do when we have an emergency. We have had emergencies where we need to go to the elementary. If that happens again we would have to walk. They cant't take busing away because we need them! We have a school where not many people know where it is. It's a little community with a bunch of fields. Cutting ALL buses won't do any good.
      Our school has tried to do box tops. Box tops don't work because the kids don't bring them. Or they don't tell their parents to save them. We can't do much for the school because we have no money. Our school used to be really good and we used to have all the money we needed. Instead of buying the sports teams jerseys use it on getting better lunches. For example, the volleyball team had really nice jerseys that matched the spandex. They didn't let us use those, instead they went and bought a whole new set. The seventh graders even got new jerseys! If the school wants to go out and buy all new things they don't need to complain about money.
    Our school needs to learn to save and be more wise with our money. We can have more fundraisers but they have to be fun fundraisers.

     Our fundraisers aren't any fun. The ones we do are for 4th graders. We get monkeys? Why would we want monkeys.. or ducks? Its little kid toys. We should do a fun fundraiser, like the limo one. We could even get pizza or have a fun day at school. We need to have some other fundraisers that are fun for kids and fun for parents. The cookie dough one makes a lot of money but the breakfast fundraiser doesn't make a lot now because everyone has gotten tired of them. If we did better, more fun fundraisers we would actually make money. Once we make the money we would have to actually spend it right for once.