The Raving Artist Wife of the Ranting Economist: March 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

one more letter to the media

Dear Morning Edition and ATC,

For the past week I’ve been wondering in what kind of context to place your uncontextualized coverage of the furloughs in the school system LA county. I get it that it is the 2^nd biggest school system in the nation, but I don’t see how that warrants incessant coverage without even mentioning the rest of the country. Here in South Carolina we’ve not only had furloughs for the past two years because of massive budget cuts in our already not stellar funding of education, but have been faced with reductions in workforce; that is, teachers are being fired, class sizes aregrowing, and an already dysfunctional education system is getting more so. In other words, LA is not unique. It is incumbent on you to broaden the scope of your coverage.

Sincerely,

A teacher in South Carolina

one more voice in the wilderness

"Raving Artist" might be a misleading title. Yes I usually rave, and yes, I am more of an artist than not, depending on the definition of the word. But most of the stuff I write here is not about art. In the end, this is just one more blog about nothing in particular by nobody in particular. I write because I like to do it; or more specifically, because "vira e mexe" ("every now and then", but more like "every now") something tweaks me and compels me to do it. I find that this is as good a place as any in which to dump my thoughts; and moreover, I am always pleasantly surprised when someone actually reads it. ...That being said, I do feel guilty about the ridiculously enormous amounts of energy it takes to run the servers that power our contemporary living.... oh well, outasite outamind...