California Needs to Join Other States in Movement for Excellence in Higher Education

Mr. Hittleman:

Your education money is going to build and maintain prisons! I have three grandsons in college and am myself a lifelong student and do not like my tax dollars being wasted on punishing sick people such as the mentally ill and addicts. No matter how hard anyone tries, they cannot punish the sickness out of these two classifications of "criminals."

Where are the teachers on this proposal for more billions to be wasted on punishment instead of front end prevention of crime through education?

Why aren't you all speaking out. The families of prisoners are mostly the poor and uneducated, they need your powerful voting lobby involved in this war between the punishers and the treaters/educators.

If you really care about more education dollars, please speak up against prison building. It is outrageous that prison guards with a GED earn more than our teachers, but where are your voices?

Mr. Hittleman,

It seems that our law makers do not put educators or education in the important light it deserves.
After teaching special education for three years, our son lives in a converted garage, can not afford to continue his education and has $35,000.00 in student loan debt. This is an outrage. Wouldn't you agree. He's a great teacher. What a shame that he at times thinks about leaving this honorable profession.
Why are our tax dollars going to fund more prisons to warehouse more uneducated and poor. Many of these people are low level, non violent offenders who did not have the resources to defend themselves.
Why doesn't this state realize that we need to put our money into programs that are preventive, that inspire, that teach. We can not continue to just lock up our young. We can not continue to create a society of uneducated young people who come out of these warehouses worse than when they went in, poor, desperate, with no education or skills. We could turn our society around. We need to fund more preventative programs like early mental health. You have a voice please use it for all of us who are not being heard.

I agree with the comments of Cayenne Bird and J. Buchanan above. It's a disgrace that we can spend billions on prisons and other failing systems yet are reluctant to adequately fund our educational and mental health systems. What does this say about us as a society? Are we that vindictive that we prefer to punish people rather than educate them?
An educated person is an asset to our communuty. Well worth the investment. Lack of education is very often a liability and a drain on our resources.

The teachers are big union but they are too nice and trust the monkeys in office to be doing the right thing. The teachers need to lead the charge to end the prison building because other groups do not have the voting machine capability of the teachers.

When the teachers speak, the legislators listen, unlike when the families of prisoners speak since they cannot organize well enough to elect educators to office.

Why are the teacher's being so nice. Something needs to be done here and the teacher's union leaders should use backbone to put an end to knuckledraggers getting paid $100k a year with only a GED

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