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Entertainment is where you find it.

From this blog, one can easily see we get a lot of entertainment from short trips to explore the area around us in detail.  After all its the detail that provides the entertainment.

Sometimes, you can be entertained by reading the local newspaper.

For example, yesterday the local newspaper reported that the Board of Trustees of the local school district approved the filling of 7 new positions in the school system, for a total added expenditure of $325,000.
The reporter went on to describe the new positions, because surely the taxpayer will be curious about where this nearly a third of a million dollars will be spent, and on what.
One position is for a "credit recovery teacher" because there are "over 150 students who have lost credits and are attempting to recover their credits".  Anyone know about credit recovery?
Another request was for four "social emotional learning counselors" to work "within our bullying protocol" and too "make sure the students social and emotional needs are met".  Knowing how we handled bullying when we went to school made these positions unnecessary.
Then, because 20 percent of the students are in the special needs category, there needs to be more special ed teachers for the Rebound Program.
The last position approved was for a licensed professional specialist in school psychology to help with student evaluations.
As to the cost of the program and how it will be paid reminds me of a true story from my dad's business.  He had an employee who asked for a raise and my dad said, "I know how you can have extra money for your family starting right now".  His suggestion was for the employee to stop smoking cigarettes, as he was a chain smoker.  The employee was interested in this proposal but did not understand how stopping smoking would make it possible to have more money for his family. After some discussion, it became clear why he did not understand the concept when the employee said, " "my cigarettes don't cost anything"  He went on to explain, "because my wife buys the cigarettes with the grocery money"

I wonder if the $ 325,000 will come from the grocery money.

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