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Across the nation school budgets are being cut. Teachers are being laid off.
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| I need you to share your desk with Jenny for a while. Some of the other kids have to share too. | |
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| Where will I put my stuff? | |
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Schools are even closing and districts are consolidating.
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| Maybe some of it can go under our chairs, or in bags on our chairs. | |
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This will make standards that much harder to teach and learn in cramped classrooms.
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| I miss my old school. We had our own desks. | |
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| We had our own desks last year too. It's just really crowded this year. | |
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