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One hundred students dressed in black marched slowly around Southwood Middle School Sunday in a mock funeral meant to get state lawmakers' attention. The mourners placed their violins, books and soccer balls in a coffin. The adjacent headstone read "Here lies our dreams." The overdramatized mock funeral was meant to send a message to state lawmakers to stop slashing state education funding. “It's to to symbolize they are killing our dreams," said student Kiana Codgill Richardson Her mother, Lisa Richardson, and PTA colleague, Stephanie Keime, put the mock funeral on YouTube as they launched a full on campaign against future funding cuts. “Everybody has to tighten their belt, but it doesn't have to be around the neck of our children’s education. We are strangling our education,” Keime told Local 10’s Neki Mohan. Karin Brown, head of the state PTA, urged other parents to join them in a March 18 rally to Tallahassee to protest future budget cuts and the send a message to state lawmakers. “The more we get out the word, the more that other parents can see that we can make a difference," Brown said. source: justnews.com
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PTA Mom's Stage Mock Funeral To Get State's Attention
