Although many feel that nothing would have been compromised by the availability of funding, the fact remains that however indirectly, the state would have been potentially funneling money to parochial schools. An education school such as Eastern had a good stake in the outcome of Proposal 1. Many of the students here are bound for careers in the public schools, and having a weakened system is the equivalent of voting a bad economy into existence. The other major beneficiaries are the students of the public schools. These children attending school now are the primary future of the quality of life in our state.
Education affects every facet of life, and no one escapes the quality of our public school system.
This is not to say all is well with the current state of our public schools. The takeover of the Detroit school system proved that much progress needs to be made before the Michigan classroom gives students what they truly deserve. Michigan s schools needed to take.