Response to "Educating Texas"

You are right Noah when you said in your article "Educating Texas" that we need to prioritize more wisely in our state before we do something like this. Education is one of the most important investments in society, and that should be the last thing we take in consideration to use on budget cuttings in the Texas's economy improvement plan; It is truth that before the $15 billion in education budget cuts, the Lone star was spending a lot more money than many other states, but also that was the reason why Texas has been considered one of the best educational systems in the nation, not only academically but athletically as well, making the Texans proud of the glory and prestige of our school and universities. But this budget cuts are also cutting the advances that have taken much longer to achieve. We do not see these changes now, but maybe in a couple of years statistics will reveal the tragic reality, and at that point turn the things back in the right direction could not be that easy.

As I said in my last post "Need a job? Move to Texas!," I do believe that Mr. Perry is doing all this changes in his eagerness to reach the presidential candidacy. He is not only using the educational structure for this purpose, but also he is putting at risk our own healthy on it with the "business friendly environment," minimizing environmental regulations and giving permits for almost any kind of company without taking in count the environmental pollution this can lead to; we would rank 7th in the world for deadly toxic emissions if we consider Texas as an independent nation (you can learn more about this in Zeke's post).

Also if we look at the exponential growing of the state's population, with an approximation of a thousand new residents daily; how can we even be thinking on laying off teacher positions? Instead of that, we should invest more and more to the education of our children. When I see something like this I remember two wise quotes of the liberator of Venezuela, Simon Bolivar: “The first duty of a government is to give education to the people” and “An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.”

If Republicans really want to legislate for the well being of the state, they should change their minds and realize that education is the key of success.