Reality is always in your face. Budget cuts loom.
Staffs get smaller.
Children's needs get larger. They would ask for a safe place where children could let out their anger, and learn to talk rather than fight. A place where they could ask important questions about their lives, like why mom and dad are divorcing, or even how they're supposed to get all this homework finished every night. Someone to listen. But in a district ravaged by cuts and stripped down to basic services, that's about as farfetched a dream as you can get.