Monday, February 11, 2008
11.Feb.08 - Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger:
I am a parent of a child at Ocean Shore School in the Pacifica School District. I have recently sat through the board meeting where the district was trying to prioritize what cuts to make because of your budget crisis. Ocean Shore is wonderful school despite the state governments ability to fund it meaningfully but these further cuts after the previous 6 years $1.3 million worth of cuts is particularly painful as it will clearly degrade the education experience. Instead of prioritizing the budget cuts and making hard decisions you are foisting them off on everyone else including the school districts. It is then more disheartening to see your disingenuous site which talks about how "you" have funded schools to "historic new heights" when actually you were forced to by the teacher's unions and law suits. I ask, are you proud that California ranks 37th (at best) in funding per child? Show that you actually care about California and want an educated, civil, productive tax base. Prove that you care about our children's future and that of California. Tell the people that education is important and show leadership by doing what is politically inconvenient and emotionally touchy but morally and intellectually correct...fund California education.
I am a parent of a child at Ocean Shore School in the Pacifica School District. I have recently sat through the board meeting where the district was trying to prioritize what cuts to make because of your budget crisis. Ocean Shore is wonderful school despite the state governments ability to fund it meaningfully but these further cuts after the previous 6 years $1.3 million worth of cuts is particularly painful as it will clearly degrade the education experience. Instead of prioritizing the budget cuts and making hard decisions you are foisting them off on everyone else including the school districts. It is then more disheartening to see your disingenuous site which talks about how "you" have funded schools to "historic new heights" when actually you were forced to by the teacher's unions and law suits. I ask, are you proud that California ranks 37th (at best) in funding per child? Show that you actually care about California and want an educated, civil, productive tax base. Prove that you care about our children's future and that of California. Tell the people that education is important and show leadership by doing what is politically inconvenient and emotionally touchy but morally and intellectually correct...fund California education.
