Help Our Kids Saturday, March 8th!

Here is an email I received yesterday that I am passing along….

“As you are undoubtedly aware, the budget cuts for education, and in particular San Diego Unified School District, have been a major topic of conversation around this area as of late. The Board of Education is meeting this Tuesday and we plan on being there, with signs, etc. showing our displeasure at how they are going to make these cuts. We feel that the cuts are going to impact the classrooms and children directly, when they should be making the cuts as far away from the children as possible. The board is going to be making most of their decisions that morning in a closed meeting. We are trying to get our voices heard now. We are going to meet at the Mira Mesa High School on Saturday with signs. We are bringing our kids. We are going to get our tin cups and buckets out and we are going to ‘panhandle’ Mira Mesa. We will spread ourselves somewhere between Soup Plantation, down to the high school. We are hoping to get our voices heard by staging this ‘beg to keep the schools running’ campaign, if you will. We are contacting the press. We really need HUNDREDS of people out there to make an impact. If we are loud enough, Sacramento might hear us. The event is going to be from 9-12. (We are hoping for the biggest turnout from 10-11 for press purposes). We ask people to bring signs, bring people, bring cups. I am going to make a bunch of signs , but the more people can bring, the better. People can even come early, put up tents or park their cars along the street and plaster them with signs. Anything to make this visible. This is last minute so we are trying to notify as many people as possible. I was hoping you might be able to help spread the word.”