For centuries (even millennia), a common medical practice for illness or disease was the intentional withdrawal of blood from the body known as “bloodletting.”

The idea that draining the lifeforce that circulates throughout the body could also expel things that were causing ill health seems rather archaic today. Scientific advancements and discoveries within the last 100-125 years have all but debunked that medical practice.

Some of the ideas that have been bantered out loud by the WSFCS school board to deal with the sudden and ever-increasing school budget deficit seems more like panicked optics to show that steps are being taken.

But are those steps good (medical) practice or examples of “bloodletting?”

Has anyone else noticed how the deficit number seems to keep rising? And does anyone else think that these “possible solutions” seem more like “cutting & gutting” rather than an actual remedy to this financial malady?