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No. A shrinking education system, most alarmingly demonstrated by cutting school days, is as damaging to society as incurable cancer is to a person. Next to a solid family (in the widest sense of the word) a sound education system is critical to a healthy community. A sure sign of a civilization in decline is one that doesn't educate it's children. Now, in the age of globalization where competition for jobs comes from India and China as much as the neighboring county, societies that undereducate their children will lose and lose badly.

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Every parent who lives in a district that cuts school days should take their child to Salem on one of those cut days and tour the Capitol. We did this a few years ago when our district cut days. Our legislators need to be overwhelmed with school kids demanding restoration of adequate funding. Imagine kids from all over the state descending on Salem!

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