As the spouse of the vice president of our local middle school's PTA, I know President Kennedy was right when he said, "To govern is to choose." My neighbors-prosperous, patriotic, family oriented-would likely nod readily in response to a generic call to cut government spending. But God help anyone who tried to lay off any of our teachers. Sure, my seventh grader could survive in a class of 45 instead of 28; no one ever died from head lice. But here's the deal: there is no head-lice caucus at the middle-school PTA.
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