The Oklahoma Education Act

In the Oklahoma City Public Schools, our children are eating garbage.

They are eating off un-recyclable Styrofoam trays, not the hard compiled plastic ones we ate off, and 75% of the food is being thrown in the trash.

(They have four choices when it comes to milk: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and plain) Which ones do you think the kids pick?

There are other options, such as Kerr Farm-to-School program

One of our last great Legislators Bernest Cain fought hard to keep vending machines out of Elementary Schools, but you’ll find them in all the higher education institutions.

Oklahoma is ranked 8th in the nation in childhood obesity, falling behind other Southern states of the same ilk.

Our Mayor wanted a major league team, but he also wanted everyone to shed a million pounds last Spring (he certainly shed it in currency)

In November of 2004, Oklahoman’s voted in The Oklahoma Lottery. To which all net proceeds were to be allocated for Educational purposes…

(From The Oklahoma Lottery Beneficiary)

“On November 2, 2004, Oklahomans overwhelmingly voted to pass the “Oklahoma Education Act”. Net proceeds of all lottery games will be used to support improvements and enhancements for education purposes and programs; furthermore, net proceeds will be used to SUPPLEMENT rather than replace existing funds for education. Proceeds will benefit all levels of education from Pre-K to higher education.

How will Oklahoma Education receive the promised funds?

All proceeds from ticket sales will be deposited in a separate bank account, on or before the 15th day of each quarter, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission will transfer 30% of the proceeds to the Oklahoma Education Lottery Trust Fund. This Trust Fund will be administered by the Office of State Treasury.”

We’ve yet to see a dime of this money at our school, I’m interested if anyone else has? You see, if we don’t stand up and say something, we continue to be the cattle lowing in the field.

Oklahoma has some of the top ranked, and lowest paid educators in the nation. They are attempting to teach children who’s little brains are being nourished on crap. Who are being medicated for an overwhelming amount of incorrect ADHD diagnosis’s, when all they need in more exercise, and better nutrition.

If you can afford to send your child to school with lunch, bullocks to you.

However for many Oklahoma children, the lunch, and sometimes breakfast (Donuts?) they receive in school, will be the only decent meal they get during the day.

In Elementary school, the older children will sometimes eat lunch as early as 10:30 a.m., this meal has to last them until 3:00p.m.?

How are educators supposed to teach hungry, angry, frustrated, undernourished children?

Our children and educators deserve better than this.

So far the average involved parent has already spent $50.00 attempting to supplement our Teacher’s classroom needs in a mere two weeks time.

That’s incorrigible.

I want to know where all the money from the lottery is going, because I can’t walk into a gas station without having to stand there and wait, while the clerk either sells or cashes out those stupid lotto cards.

I had no idea until recently what Oklahoma City Public School kids were being offered as far as nourishment during the day at school. None.

No variety of fresh and or frozen fruits/veggies, everything is cheap, fast and processed.

Everything but the marketing that went into The Oklahoma Education Act.