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Video: Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green Are 'Hot For Teachers' and Mad as Hell About LAUSD Budget Cuts
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Brian Austin Green is an actor, but he also happens to be an LAUSD parent with a super-hot girlfriend (Megan Fox) and the passion to put together a Funny or Die video starring real kids from a local elementary school highlighting just how dire the budget situation is. Parents are up in arms, two classes' worth of students are stuck in one room and left to pretty much climb the rafters unsupervised since their teacher got pink-slipped.
The video stems from the PTA of Wonderland Elementary, where Green's son is a student, and their idea to use some celeb power to pressure people to pressure the Governor to quit hacking away at the budget for public education, explains LA Now.
"Hot For Teachers" isn't exactly funny--and no one is going to die, but as one student points out in the video, with the increasingly dire state of public education in California, “It’s no wonder so many of us [students] end up in prison."
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