Kevin Siers: You Write The Caption

The winner:

"Oh no, it's 'A is for Austerity.'"

-- Richard Randall of Cherryville

The runners-up:

"We have lost our faculties."

-- Douglas Cox, Albemarle

"At least now she'll have one more to sell out on the sidewalk."

-- Loyd Dillon, Charlotte

"Welcome to Cutbacks, Misappropriations, and State-level indifference."

-- John Bradey, Matthews

"You don't need an education, anyway. There are no jobs."

-- Charleen Bolt, Charlotte

"It's called web-based learning."

-- From several readers

"Hang on to that apple. They're cutting the cafeteria budget next!"

-- From several readers

Thanks for all your entries. Here's some of the other better lines we received this week::

"Unfortunately our apples were too late to keep Dr. Gorman away."

"If you leave it, they will come."

"Those who teach, can't."

"So this is the new CMS web site."

"Now, our teacher is also an Apple."

“She is smarter than a 5th grader. That’s why she found a better job!”

"System been down long?"

"An apple a day can't make our teachers stay, because the GOP took the money away!"

"It's an apple a day for CMS teachers without pay!"

"Mom says we should just send our apples directly to Raleigh!"

"That’s sweet, but Miss Spencer’s already on food stamps!"

"It's the new CMS student to teacher ratio, 30:0."