Good thing I have lots of space on my hard drive

by David Safier

Otherwise, I'd be running out of room to save all the articles about the MAS controversy I come across. It's being covered nationally and internationally, blogs and traditional news media. This story isn't going away.

Did the folks at TUSD do any serious strategizing about this? Did they wonder what might happen to the District's already poor reputation if it becomes the poster child for restricting the critical thinking and education of its students, especially in the area of Hispanic-based education when Hispanic students make up 60% of its population? The restults could not possibly be good.

I think, for the record, much of TUSD's reputation is a bad rap. It's had all kinds of administrative screw-ups over the years, but they've been overplayed by The Star which, for some reason, has been in the business of bashing Tucson and its schools. As usual, much of the city's other news media followed The Star's lead. But this. It isn't TUSD's fault people like Paton, Horne and Huppenthal decided to hop on the MAS-bashing train to promote their own political fortunes, but could the district have been handled the situation any worse?