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(w/o Apologies for Bleak Metaphors etc.)

Mar 28, 2025

Apologies for bleak metaphors &c. ...
Actually, maybe NO apologies.
Sometimes this feels pretty bleak.
But I promise I am 110% filled up with hope & inspiration when I see what the kiddos can do in their artwork! ⭐🎨📖🤩

Not sure where things are headed or how this will all end up, but I will keep doing this work no matter what.

Thanks for being here, dear readers.
& THANKS, teachers, for all you do.

💙m

SOURCE LINKS:

"Employees, sports, cocurriculars and universal pre-K among $3 million in Jaffrey-Rindge budget cuts" Monadnock Ledger-Transcript (19 March 2025)

"Among the cuts approved on Monday were a total of the equivalent of 24 1/2 full-time positions. ...
[An official] explained that the preschool program would not be cut in its entirety, but would be reduced to a half-day, and a lottery system would be reinstated. ...
Savings from cutting athletics include athletic stipends, an athletic trainer, game transportation, referees and a coordinator, as well as eliminating a groundskeeper and 1 1/2 custodian positions due to less need for maintenance and cleaning related to athletics programs.
Cocurriculars are expected to be reduced, and summer programs, including summer school and credit recovery, will not be offered. Field trips will be eliminated, as will programming extensions where outside educators such ... provide programs for students.

SIMILAR CUTS @ ANOTHER SCHOOL, ALSO NEARBY:
"Merrimack Valley schools to eliminate 21 positions, lay off up to 3 employees" Concord Monitor (26 March 2025)
RE: WASHINGTON:
WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE: "CONTINUING THE REDUCTION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY" (14 March 2025)

"non-statutory components and functions of the following governmental entities shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law...:
(i) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service;
(ii) the United States Agency for Global Media;
(iii) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution;
(iv) the Institute of Museum and Library Services;
(v) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness;
(vi) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund; and
(vii) the Minority Business Development Agency.
..."