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With the amazing growth Las Vegas experienced in the last fifteen years or so one problem that was ever present was the capability to keep up with the school system. We were constantly suffering from overcrowded classrooms, budget shortfalls to build new schools and not having enough teachers.

While reading a book called "Young Las Vegas" by Joan Burkhart Whitley, I came across a chapter called School Days. De Ja Vus. She talks about the problems when Las Vegas began in 1905 and the residents had to start what is now the Clark County School District. Nothing has changed about the fact that parents care about their children's education. The first school began in a tent for about twenty children. The city then found they needed this structurefor a courtroom.

Money was sparse, even then, to provide a meeting place for their children. A three person school board was organized (our first).

The second school was at a vacated hotel (The Salt Lake Hotel) which was a four room building. The townspeople spent $700.00 to move into it and renovate it. Enrollment was about 50 to sixty students with two teachers. And, then, as usual over crowding occurred when the enrollment grew to about 81 students. You see, nothing ever changes.


It is estimated that there are about 10,000 puppy mills in the United States. http://www.aspca.org/news/national/06-26-09.html. The animals live in deplorable conditions . Unfortunately this is how some choose to make a living. You would think since the owners are making money off of these animals they would at least take care of them. How much of a problem could it be to feed them properly, have clean cages without wire bottoms so they can't get injured and let them out of their cages once in awhile? Unfortunately this has been to much to expect for our poor puppy mill animals. So, please consider adoption instead of purchasing an animal. You will spare a great deal of misery, probably way beyond what I have described here.