Sara Hoge Letter To the Editor

[Reprinted from the Pasadena Star News, July 10, 2008]

In response to your editorial:

I truly believe that the answer to most of our problems in our Country lies in the education of our youth. Global Warming, Alternate Energy, Overloaded Prisons, Jobs that are sent overseas, Medical help for all citizens, failure to own homes, or at least an inability to afford rent. It would seem reasonable to agree that these problems will not be solved in any rapid time table.

Granted these things are costly, but if we add to this expense by turning out students who, because we need to cut costs now, will suffer an inferior education, it will be to our own demise. Sufficient to say it is possible that the uneducated then only adds to our problems. I say we make education of our youth our priority, or we and our children will face the consensus's later with a regret that will be far too late to turn around.

I have not met a single person who need, or wants a hike in property taxes, and nor do I. Yet what I want even less is a society that cannot look forward and act responsibly.

- Sara Hoge