<p>I'm doing environment. :)</p>
<p>Where'd you hear that from? The website?</p>
<p>But hey, it's the last to start anyway.</p>
<p>ugh. i'm anxious. i can't believe they pushed it back.</p>
<p>but i think it's different for each school.</p>
<p>each school finishes its decisions on its own schedule.</p>
<p>:(
I want to find out! :)</p>
<p>Btw, my friend's cousin called one of the Science schools to find out if she got accepted. According to my friend, due to the fact that budget cuts were made (affecting Gov. School, too!), they're accepting less students than they were planning. :( But, that's what I heard!</p>
<p>Kidding about my last post.
In case anyone missed it, you can't find out your acceptance/rejection by calling the school. Actually, according to the Director's office (I called today), all of the letters from all schools will be going out on the 4th of April.</p>
<p>Good joke...?</p>
<p>Actually, about lkgxangie's post, a few seniors in my school were discussing the same thing today - that they're cutting the science schools or something...i'm not exactly sure on the details.</p>
<p>I think it's something like Corzine's proposed budget for the next fiscal year doesn't include the Governor's Schools for Science, the Environment, Engineering, and the Arts, so the students would have to pay for them. Public Issues and International Relations would still be free though.</p>
<p>My GSPI '05 friend said Corzine came and spoke to her gov school about how great the program is while she was there. Last year.</p>
<p>so if they mail them April 4th?......we'll get it by friday or saturday?</p>
<p>My friend is GSPI '05. She said the director emailed her saying, and I quote, "The Governor's School of Public Issues was officially cut for the summer of 2006. Initially, it looked as if GSPI was going to be the only Gov. School to run this summer, but this has fallen through."</p>
<p>This state sucks.</p>
<p>lol this is just GREAT!</p>
<p>sooo..all of the gov schools are canceled?</p>
<p>that's impossible. the budget is pending for next year, not this year. if governor's school was canceled, we wouldn't even had the chance to apply. plus, if it is really canceled, they would have told us earlier. </p>
<p>but, if it really is canceled. corzine. should. be. removed. from office.</p>
<p>who the hell cuts education?</p>
<p>Agreed, e_man.
I read in an article about high school students (juniors, to be more specific) going to the budget meeting w/ Corzine to try to save Gov. School. Not sure. I don't really know much about it.
I just know, for certain, that the letters are mailed out on the 4th of April. Lovely. =/</p>
<p>I told my friend (finalist for the Arts) about this and she said they really can't do this to us because when we applied to the program we were TOLD that it is free of charge. So yeah, e_man1157's point makes a lot of sense.</p>
<p>IT BETTER BE FOR NEXT YEAR.</p>
<p>I actually had an "IMPEACH CORZINE" slogan in my profile yesterday. Seriously, Gov School is one of the best opportunities our state has that doesn't discriminate between socioeconomic classes.</p>
<p>D:</p>
<p>They definitely won't be cancelled; just not free. At least not this year.</p>
<p>I called the office and the answering machine said that they were all cancelled.</p>
<p>What other summer programs are you guys planning on applying to?</p>
<p>i called as well, and it's outrageous. they can't do that to us. </p>
<p>i was looking forward to the experience and now I have no plans for the summer because I was waiting on this acceptance/rejection/whatever. </p>
<p>But, the point is that the state has no right to throw around its brightest student, making them spend time on a rather lengthy application and then forcing them to endure an anxious waiting period just to find out that "OH SORRY, WE WERE JUST KIDDING; THERE' S ACTUALLY NO PROGRAM."</p>
<p>The students in my school who went last year sent us this link to email Corzine.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html</a>. </p>
<p>Choose 'Education' as the topic and then 'Topic Not Listed/Other' as the subtopic on the next page.</p>
<p>You can email him if you want, but i doubt that is going to do anything.</p>
<p>I hate how authority thinks they can just toss us around like this because "we're just kids" and we can't do anything. I'm so angry right now; I think this cancellation has galvanized me to action. I'm going to do something, perhaps rally students? Who knows.</p>
<p>yeah, i left a message for the director and she gave me a call back - ALL of them are cancelled, and for THIS SUMMER. not cool at all.</p>
<p>I wrote a very long passionate letter to the Governor. About how I'm ashamed to live in this state, how this is the worst day of my life (my parents' problems are escalating... it may have been a tiny exaggeration though), about how I'm voting Republican in the next election - or anyone BUT Corzine, about how I refuse to give any more money than I have to to the state...</p>
<p>I can't believe this...</p>
<p>everyone who cares. email the governor.</p>
<p>we can make a difference. we're not going to let this slide.</p>
<p>my friends and I have already started a petition.</p>
<p>we still can fight this.</p>
<p>if not. we'll storm the state building.</p>