/frustration

dear people who make california's laws:

this sucks.
i know that there's a problem with how things have to work, but i don't get why this has to project on us.
you say that you want us to be educated, that education is the key to the future, and yet you're taking away some of the best teachers and increasing class sizes. don't you get it? this will only help us to FAIL. we won't get the attention we need, we won't get the instruction we need, and we'll end up failing and being screwed over in the long run.
and it's like we have no say, no one has a say but you.
we are feeling alone and angry, and we want to do something about this.
but all we can see you doing is turning a blind eye and a deaf ear.
this is OUR FUTURE that you're fucking with.
and we aren't going to take this lying down.
we will make you see that this is not all that we have in us, that we will fight for our cause.
because it's really shitty that you want us to learn, and yet you're preventing us from learning well.
i know that this one stupid, angry letter from an angry teenager won't make that much of a difference, but please. have some compassion. half of the teachers that are getting laid off aren't getting fired because of the quality of their teaching, but how long they've been teaching. and some teachers i consider to be among the best while others aren't. and many of these teachers have children, and can't afford to lose their jobs.
plus, do you realize that with gas prices so high and unemployment rates rising, we are steadily digging ourselves into an even bigger hole, getting ourselves into even more trouble than we are already in? we will essentially be in another great depression.
i know you're thinking, "kid, what are you trying to prove?"
i'm trying to say that you can lay off our favorite teachers, who some of us even consider almost "friends," you can make entire families go bankrupt and either have to move to somewhere more affordable (namely, not in california) or be homeless, because you have that power. but what is it going to do in the long run? it's only going to cause more problems than some "reckless teenagers" protesting these school budget cuts. it's going to cause people who have gone to school to be less educated than previous generations. it's going to cause more homeless people, more "lunatics" on the side of the streets with their cardboard signs, begging for money or clothes or toys. it's going to cause another era of desperation and confusion. and you can stop all of this from happening by simply keeping our teachers, keeping our education budget the same.
i know, i probably care too much about this.
but honestly, it is one of the only things that matters to me thus far in life.

thanks for reading my rant,
alyssa.