Soda Tax

Added taxes like cigarettes and soda are not helping improve our schools as promised. Our schools still look the same with no support, extra-curricular activities. The tax didn’t change anything for our schools. Our books still old and falling apart. People from Pepsi quit their job because they thought they weren’t getting paid enough. The soda tax should affect their paycheck. This is really an outrage and it is affecting not only the jobs at Pepsi Co. also it is effecting the stores who are not selling as much sodas and juices due to the tax. This affects the peoples’ families as well because the operations of those stores help to feed their families. This soda tax really isn’t helping the schools as stated when the tax was proposed. Additionally,
There was an incident at Edward T. Steel Elementary school and there were not any school police on hand to defuse this incident. Early one morning a few weeks ago during the opening recess at the elementary school a parent entered the building with her two children in tow harassing another student from the school. They walked through the halls the mother shouting at the little girl they were targeting and a few moments later by the main office a fight broke out between the daughter of the mother who took her into the school and the girl being harassed. The whole time this is going on not one person in the office came out to break up the fight. The brawl got out of hand really quickly when the mother began pulling the girls hair while the brother of the girl whose mother brought them in there hit the little girl in the face with a rock. It was total chaos in the building none of the kids would go to class and when the principle finally arrived to break up the fight the girl that was harassed had visible bruises on her face. When her mother arrived it was even worst because by then they had the mother and her 2 children locked in a room. The mother of the girl who was attacked was furious. She demanded answer, and honestly she deserved answers. The only answer that the school could give her was that the school only has a cop once a week and that today was not the day they were scheduled to be there on this particular day. The Philadelphia police did show up to defuse the situation, yet the result from this incident is now that no parents are allowed in the building until 9:30 a.m. which means that the students enter the building through a back door. Which has several parents upset because people have to send their children in pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade into the school and pray that they make it to class safely. The whole purpose of me stating this is