We are in serious need of fixing our state. Due to lack of funds for education, The Philip J. Rock Center and School will run out of money to pay it's employees. The school is a year-round residential program located in Glen Elyn. It opened in 1978 and houses legally blind and deaf people, as well as severely disabled people, through the age of 21. It is the only blind-deaf school in the state.
The director of the school says that the program is 100% funded by the government. With the government cutting back, the school will close. The school provides education, therapy, and even housing to some students. The state owes the center 1.7 million dollars, which is half of it's annual funding. It makes me sick to think that these students will have to turn elsewhere. Fourteen of them live at the center. Their families are faced with the problem of trying to find care and education for their children. Doesn't every person have a right to an education? Or is that taken away when you are blind and deaf, and the government doesn't care about you?
How about a charitable donation? School districts that have $3.7 million to spend on football turf should step up. Not that they should have to, but let's be realistic. Our country can raise ridiculous amounts of money to send to other countries in need, but our state can't provide the money that is due to our much needed schools. It's really time that we find a good honest leader for our country. We need to cut out the nonsense in America and start to improve our government and country.
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