And There's More

As Linda pointed out in her comment to Friday's post, it's too bad money can't buy common sense.  Upon a deeper dive into the school funding issue, it seems that this applies, oh, most definitely applies, to Governor Ducey.

Let me explain.

The Governor's decision to withhold federal Rescue Plan money from any school district with a mask mandate may come to bite him in the ass.  It's $1800 per student - a sizeable chunk of change in any district's budget. 

Unfortunately for Governor Ice Cream, these funds cannot be released to districts which receive other Federal aid programs, like all those available to lower income demographics.  So my District and all the other school districts serving those at the bottom of the economic pile are losing nothing by doing the one thing the experts say can mitigate the transmission of COVID 19 - mask mandates. 

And which Districts stand to lose all those Federal dollars our Incompetent in Chief won't give them if they, too, want to protect their kids?  All those rich, white, Republican suburbs, with inflated home prices because the public schools are wonderful.  Suddenly, they're not going to be as wonderful as they could be,  if your District were tempted to put masks in their dress codes.

Ducey is trying to give them $7000 vouchers for private schools, but that's a plan that seems to be going nowhere.

It may be that every parent in those districts is anti-mask, but Arizona has sent home a kindergarten class in the middle of the first day and lost an unvaccinated teacher and it's only a matter of time before those folks have it happen to them, because it can happen to you..... when you least expect it.... or when you've deluded yourself into believing that it only happens to the other guy.

I used to feel that way, too.