Scary News

The headlines in today's newspaper are kinda scary: "utility proposes boosting its rates" and "Portsmouth, Suffolk have two of highest dropout rates." It's also scary that Portsmouth proposes to raise their real estate property taxes by 8 cents. Have you ever noticed that when money starts to get tight, the people who collect it, want it sooner and more of it? I wish that the public schools could show children the correlation between education and the all-mighty dollar. I wish more parents would step up to their responsibilities and take an active role in their children's education. My advice: mentor a child; mentor somebody's child so that they can be shown the right path.