Amen and Thank You, Tommy Lee Jones!

It's about time someone well known made an ad like this!

The state of Texas is taking billions of dollars away from schoolchildren this coming school year. On top of that they are increasing class sizes and implementing a new state test which will be more rigorous than TAKS (called STAAR). My district is on a hiring freeze, a salary freeze, the district wants to furlough our holidays, and we're losing all of our specialists (which includes math and reading specialists.)

Texas is pretty much shooting the middle finger at all students and the future of our state and we're all supposed to be okay with it because they're saving a few dollars right at this moment. What they're not thinking about is how their decisions today affect the future. They can either fund education today or the prison system in the future. Looks like they've made their choice.