In My Opinion: EIC

Thousands of people had come to Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles to protest further cuts to public education, billions of dollars actually, and to send a message to legislators that in a crisis, education cannot and will not be the first to go. All around were smalls signs and large banners that read, “Flunk the State Budget,” or pleas to President Obama to save education. As Editors in Chief of a high school newspaper, we’ve seen The Moor cover quite an amount of stories concerning our school, district  or state not having enough funding for a field trip or program.

Certainly, state lawmakers and Schwarzenegger must have known that stealing 17 billion dollars from students was going to have some ramifications. Too often we’ve heard that “our school cannot afford to do this,” and it’s not AHS, or the AUSD that we blame. It’s the empty promises dealt by the state government. At the rally, speakers from different facets of public education had the chance to address the entire crowd; there were people from the high school level such as ourselves as well as from community colleges, Cal States and UCs. The rally showed us what a desperate situation public education has become. Admittedly, it instilled a sense of fear in us, but we knew that we were not just two teens in a crowd; we had the advantage of people, people who are done compromising California’s future.

By Co-Editors in Chief Stephanie Lee, Yvonne Lee