‘Opinions’ Archives
The budget: a disaster in our midst
A week ago I had an interview with the interim Principal Elizabeth Moll at University High School to discuss our current budget situation. To sum it up, it didn’t look good for the kids at UHS. For starters the UHS Budget Committee had to deal with balancing the budget this year, luckily there were no major teacher cuts. Unfortunately [...]
The Library Times
Students on the Rincon/University High School campus have been hard-pressed to ignore the recent budget cuts applied to our school library. Due to the nation-wide recession, TUSD has been curbing every department in an effort to rub two funding nickels together. The hacks made to our library’s budget have been drastic: six of the seven library [...]
Aren’t we worked hard enough?
We at UHS have a lot on our plates. We take harder, more grueling classes than many of our peers who attend other schools. We take countless numbers of AP exams, have one of the highest passing rates in the country for them and we are some of the hardest working students in America. On top of it all, many of us are involved in multiple [...]
Proposition 401 and 402: TUSD’s grave just got deeper.
On November 3, 2009 two very important ballot propositions, 401 and 402, that would have provided TUSD’s already decimated budget a much needed $9,000,000 override along with $190 dollars per student, were voted down. Many other school districts, however, passed their school budget overrides. Such results demonstrate how much the TUSD community [...]
