Sad day

It seems that all we see in the news now are the cuts that are being made to education on all levels.  Preschool, K-12, higher education.
Many of you reading this right now are either in Wisco, or very near to Wisconsin.  For those of you who aren't, the Madison Metropolitan School District is closed today because so many teachers are out protesting Gov. Walkers' newest budget proposal, which involves essentially doing away with collective bargaining for teachers (look it up online, thousands of people have gathered at the capitol in Madison to protest, the pictures and testimonies have reduced me to tears)
We just found out that our school is lhaving an extra 7.5% of funding cut for next year.  Which means we'll have to have even bigger classes, with less supplies, just to try and squeeze out as much money as we can.  This also means we will probably not get any kind of a raise between this year and next.

The only thing that I want to know is when will the government finally start to see that cuts in education are not going to help!  It might help immediately, but what are we going to do when we have an even LESS educated public than we do now?
When will they realize that they are NOT balancing a budget, but rather they are taking what should be the most basic human right - a decent education.

I just was so overwhelmed with frustration and outrage that I needed to say this.