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Simply put: The 2010 Georgia’s Governor’s Budget Proposal Eliminates Funding for School Nurses

My sis blogged about it, and I concur that this is just one more moronic thing for this backwards southern state to be doing.

You can sign a petition and follow up with your legislator here. – I get it that times are tough, but eliminating school nurses is NOT the way to start saving money. School nurses are not part of the ‘fat’ that needs cutting in the State of Georgia.

Here’s what I wrote:

You’d have to be out of your mind not to provide funding to the school system to employ qualified nurses. Consider the fact that you compel children to attend the school system, therefor you are mandating that these children be out of the supervision of their legal guardian for a period of time. If you force schools to take the risk of supervising your citizens children without giving them the ability to have qualified medical staff on site, you are risking my tax dollars in liability issues.

My directive to the legislators that represent me: You will keep funding for school nurses, and you will make sure the children of Georgia have a course of medical action when being legally compelled to be separated from their legal guardians. You will not risk my tax dollars by risking a lawsuit from a parent who’s child got some other students medicine because you won’t fund qualified staff.

Oh, and if you’re worried about the funds: Get rid of a religious law that states I can’t buy a bottle of wine on a Sunday (go ahead, argue that the law isn’t founded on religion, which is inherently illegal and federally unconstitutional) – the tax dollars from Sunday sales of alcohol alone would fund school nurses.

Go tell your legislator what you think.