The good, the bad and the ugly

Let's start with the good! We are all set for our Cape San Blas vacation! Spring Break here we come. We are the proud owners of a skim board and have a kids metal detector on the way...what else could you need for a fun spring break! The house we are staying in is quite unusual. The house is called the barnacle and it is round of all things.

It turns out that we are going to have some good friends in the area during our stay which should add to the fun!

Seafood, sand and drinks with tiny umbrellas!

Ok now on to the bad! We moved to Fulton County because of the great schools. We have definitely had some struggles with our school and there have been many times I have questioned our sanity on keeping Bennett in public school. Most of the time it basically came down to a financial decision that we just couldn't put him in private school. Of course, we always have other concerns such as the affect of uprooting him, etc. Then it seems right when we thought it was as bad as it could ever get we would get a fabulous teacher who would change our year. All this to stay, we have a fantastic teacher this year so we were going to be nervous about next year anyway...So now our lovely county doesn't have enough tax revenue to support all the schools in the county...so the answer is CUT programs (band is officially being cut). Really we are cutting programs in education? It is such the typical American philosophy, they put caps on taxes when times are good...well guess what happens when times are bad?? You don't have enough money. DUH! We all seems to know this except politicians. What school is going to look like next year for Bennett scares me. Cramped classrooms, bare-bones education, teachers right out of college with no experience because they can't afford experienced teachers. It is bleak.

This leads to me the ugly. There is a politician who is running on the platform of getting our part of fulton county (North Fulton) out of Fulton County and into Milton County. This would mean that our tax dollars would go directly into our own community. So what could be ugly about that? This particular politician is a Republican. I try not to be completely closed minded. I don't vote just based on party. BUT with what is going on Washington at the moment. It scares me to death to think that I could cast a vote for a politician based on 1 issue!!! I will tell you that this particular makes such a difference to whether or not Bennett is thriving. I would do it. I guess my democratic brothers and sisters aren't going to win any elections in Fulton county right now talking about raising our taxes by 1 point. So I am stuck with the ugly truth that I may have to do what parenting is all about...sacrifice yourself for the betterment of your child.

Click this link for more info on the history and size of Fulton County: http://fultoncounty.georgia.gov/03/home/0,2230,8307511,00.html;jsessionid=05EE372023C8C353F005ACB4E37E8BCD