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Editor's Box
By Jennifer Allen
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Assistant Editor
Once again everyone is hearing about all of the State budget cuts that continually affect our daily lives.
The State wants to cut out school programs such as music and art that in many cases are just as important to some students as the academic classes.
These classes allow a venue for student expression and in many instances, help students in their academic classes as well. For example, those involved in music classes have been shown to do better in their math classes.
Along with dropping these classes from the curriculum, there is also talk of increasing the academic load in the schools. Included in this is the thought of no longer having a technical program in the high schools.
This could be very dangerous because there are those people who are just not academically inclined and have no intentions of going to college. Technical programs provide them many opportunities such as job placement programs and experience that allow them to get the job they desire.
Without these programs there would undoubtedly be an increased number of dropouts and fail outs in our school systems.
People everywhere are always complaining about tax increases, but if something is not done, there will be no money left to fund these very important programs for our next generation.
Sure, it is nice to have low taxes, but we can't let our future suffer because we don't want to give a few extra dollars to help Georgia's students. The State does a lot of wonderful things, like the HOPE scholarship, but we can't expect our government officials to run the state as we would like it to be run without offering any help.
There are many elections coming up this year in the fall, and it is in our best interest now to address these curriculum changes for future generations.
So, the next time that you hear a candidate say �no new taxes,� think before you vote and ask yourself what you are giving up in return.
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