Once Again, Cave Creek Unified Students Deserve Your Vote

Cave Creek Unified Students Deserve Your Vote

We have made our disagreements with the Cave Creek Unified School District crystal clear and we will not rehash them here. As early ballots will begin arriving today, we wanted to communicate our feelings on the override vote.

This override is one of the primary ways that our community can support our local schools. Overrides have the biggest and most direct impact on the classroom, and with property tax deductibility, it only costs us 70 cents (or less) on the dollar out of pocket.

This override isn’t about new buildings or laptops or swimming pools, this is about the classroom. This override money goes directly to support the students and our teachers. With the passage of this override, there will be no excuse for the district to make cuts that affect our students.

We need to support our schools and make them BETTER.

We currently operate with a K-3 override and a maintenance override in place. The ‘vested interest’ boosters point to the recent bond and override defeats as proof of the lack of community support for the schools, but the community has stepped up and shown its support for getting the dollars to the classroom. There is no reason this should not continue.

Don’t set back the cause based of your hatred of the governing board’s and administration’s short sighted decisions. The district leaders will still get paid, still get their car allowances, still get their free health insurance, and they will still get their bloated pensions at retirement, but our children only have one shot at kindergarten, one shot at first grade, one shot at second grade, etc. Keep your powder dry for the governing board elections in 2012 where we can affect real change.

We need to build for a future of improved of academic distinction for all of the children in the Cave Creek Unified district. A failure on election day will only give them more cause to continue the stagnation and inertia of lowered expectations that has plagued our district.

Please support our Cave Creek Unified students with a YES vote on your ballot.