Is it the money or what...

Spinning Out of Control...

A conversation from a week ago: you're told by person x, this volunteer tutor program is not going to be for children anymore. And you point out that schools don't have tutoring programs anymore (a lot of them don't have art classes either, by the way) and then you're told by person x their budget has been cut too. And that picking up the slack is not their job. And then this person says things like, I see that mother in here with him with other tutors, tutors who are not in our program. And why is that, is he developmentally disabled or something?

And you want to say, is that really any of your business? But instead you say, well, he had to repeat a grade.

And then person x is like, so do you want to keep doing this, would it affect you, or do you not care that much?

Well...I guess I would be a little sad if we had to stop. I don't know if his mother is bringing him in here all the time or what, but he's a good kid...

Oh of course he is. And I'm sure his mother just wants the very best for her children.Well, it's not going to happen overnight, but just wanted to warn you that a change is going to be made. You understand.

Yeah, so much fun.

This is what it means to say the system is failing people.