I have nothing in the world to be upset about. My life is amazing, my family is healthy, and I have a book deal, for crying out loud. But every day, my mind keeps skipping to what’s happening in our local public school system this coming year because of the short-sightedness of our state government, and their unwillingness to restore funding to our public schools.

Yep, you read that right. I’m talking politics. I have never posted a political rant on this blog before. But that’s because they never fired all the librarians in my kids’ school district before. Not to mention the art and music teachers, the aides, the secretaries, and getting rid of the GT program.

I was angry. And then a parent mentioned to me on the weekend that “at least they’re not firing any real teachers.” It was very hard not to scream. Thank goodness my mama raised me right.

I ran across this post by Gayle Forman today. Feel free to go read it. I’m not going to go on myself, since if I did, I would probably start dropping F-bombs like she does in the post. But I agree with her.

In fact, I’m not going to rant. I’m just going to say this: my heart is breaking. What will we do with no librarians? What will we do when almost all the music and art teachers are gone? What kind of education is that? There’s gotta be a best-selling YA dystopian in there somewhere. You find it, Writer Friends. I’m too heartsick.

N.B. And, look. They’re doing it in California, too. WTF. And I know there is some good news on the horizon, possibly. But it still won’t affect our district, since all the cuts I mentioned will still be in effect to make ends meet.