Thursday, November 8, 2007

Out of Step

I'm just a little grumpy today.

I've discovered that I'm out of step with a little over half of the voters in our state on one important issue - supporting our schools.

The ballot measure to change our state's constitution from a supermajority to a simplemajority for school levies looks like it's going to fail, but only by a slim margin. To me this measure seemed like a no-brainer.

It has never made sense to me that we could construct a sports stadium only needing a simple majority of the vote, yet supporting our public schools gets held to a tougher standard.

I wonder what that says about our culture when entertainment is more important that education?

1 comment:

Kalitsu said...

Looks like it's passing now! Hurray for those who care about education enough to risk higher property taxes in order to ensure it.