We need to get rid of the Governor! all he did was make cuts.cuts to the schools. Cut some programs in the prisons and give it to our children! The prisoners have more rights then our children! Vote the Governor out in NOV and make some changes in Alabama!

Dang it! Thanks Sirk! I forgot “they” are always listening in for more ways to spend my money in ways that I don’t agree with!

Kx…shhhhhhhhhhh. Since they heard you say “how do these kids eat during the summer, holidays, and weekends”, they will eventually start having a bus come by and pick them up just to take them to school and get a free meal.

Yeah. I never understood the whole “free lunch” program, either. If you can’t afford to FEED YOUR CHILDREN, why aren’t they taken from you and given to the state?

How do these “free lunch” kids eat in the summer, weekends, and holidays?

This is public school.  There should not be a list of special supplies for school.  We had our usual crayons, scissors, ruler, pencil and paper for elementary school and it did not matter if your ruler was red, yellow, purple, etc.  You either brought wide rule paper for elementary or college rule for high school.  Usually you had to have a ball point pen for high school also.  The lists of special glues, pencils, rulers, paper towels, Kleenex, wipes, etc., is just plain ridiculous. Fire 80% of the school board and their salaries alone should take care of all toilet paper, paper towels, etc. 

If the teacher wants something special, then he/she should buy it themselves. We never even had what they called “paraprofessionals” in our classrooms either.  We had one teacher and she stayed in the classroom all day long with 30+ kids. A school bus also didn’t pick a child up every 50 feet or so.  We all met at a centrally located place on that particular road and all got on the bus together. 

There are so many ways to save, but everyone just wants to fill their own pockets and are not about trying to teach children anymore.

There is a program through Planned Parenthood that is income based is an is basically “reproductive health” Medicaid. It’s free to see the creepy nurse practitioner (she made me feel very uncomfortable) and then I think my shots were $50, but they were generic, so I had a bunch of horrible side effects. Now I’m on Individual Blue through Blue Cross & Blue Shield and I see my gyno for free and pay $300 a year (3% of my income) for name brand Depo-Provera.

DT Kx is right on this one. I went to the health department one time under the impression I could get rather cheap to free birth control. Thats not how it works. You have to bring proff of your income. If you make to much your examination cost a good deal of money. Then they write you a prescription for a normal pharmacy. Which will charge full price if you have no medicaid or insurance. Now their is a program called Family Planning that allows you to have one free exam per year, with free birth control. Maybe your niece was on that, cause I’m rather certain the health departments in Mobile do not give free birth control. Just condoms.

I just called the Mobile County Health Department and spoke with Kathy. The only free birth control they offer is LATEX condoms.

DT, which health department? I’m spending $75 per shot, and I’d love to have an extra $300 a year! That’s a year’s supply of Debbie4’s $3 cigarettes!

debbie4, where do you find smokes for only $3 a pack???