by David Safier
No need to write about the jaw dropping specifics of public school budget cuts here. You can read 'em and weep elsewhere. Here are two other bits from today's Star.
- TUSD's Supe, Elizabeth Celania-Fagen, is leaving. The reason she cites in her letter: "as the state budget reductions to education in Arizona continue to deepen, to what we feel is an unacceptable level, we found it necessary to consider another opportunity for our family." I honestly believe Fagen planned to stay longer, until she saw the graffiti scrawled on the school house wall by Republican legislators: "Public Skools Suck!"
- Project Vote Smart, one of the feathers in Arizona's cap, is leaving because UA can't afford to provide it space rent free. It will be picked up by universities elsewhere, and I imagine it will continue to thrive. But Arizona will lose the opportunity for 50 students to intern there each semester. We're throwing away an invaluable training ground for future leaders because the university is so strapped, it can't afford to give Project Vote Smart use of a 1500 square foot space.
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Calling people short-sighted idiots is not a productive way of persuading anybody to change their belief about any particular idea.
You can always try to convince Arizona residents that this state sucks so bad that they should move to Michigan but I have this feeling that your pitch is going to fall on deaf ears.
Perhaps if the State of Arizona wasn’t being run by short-sighted idiots we wouldn’t be losing great people and programs!
I’m guessing the best business opportunity in AZ for the foreseeable future is interstate moving services.
Perhaps if the State of Arizona wasn’t spending money imprisoning prostitutes for 27 months (and then killing them via heat exposure) it would have enough money to provide free rent for civic projects.
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