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Show AA4 TheSalt Lake Tribune OPINION The West, Nuclear Waste Students and Teachers Deserve More BY SUE DICKEY iministrators. In addition,in a Phi Delta will have no class sizes to cover suffer next year. I do not for the decisionsit had to ne the Legislature make regarding the 2001-2002 budget. | mayevenbeable toforgive them for the 2002-2003 changes to the block amegoes to the lack of foresight they failed to initiate during the past decade. Our Legisiature is at at planningfor highways, for the Olympics, and even the Capitol renovation, but planning for the future of ourchil drenis an issue they have failed to achieve. "The writing has been onthe wall for Unfortunate nv he Legislature, the public and Tribune editors (“Students Deserve jal, t April 21) have kept their nd, or usedtactics to di y placingthe blame on edu iors who ask for a decent salary package Educators have been reporting to the pubiic and the Legislature the problems we > in our schools. We all need to face the facts: educationof our children. We cannot continue to fiddle with the property taxesorrely on the ups and downs of the economy. We need new revenue sources for public education. The result of the Legislature's failure to provideforourchildren’s education is evident in every classroom in Utah. Program after program has slowly been whittled away, then eliminated, Utah has the lowest per- pupil pan survey, two of Utah’s districts Graniteand Jordan were among thetop five most efficient with regard to student/central office administrator ratios. The Utah educa BYJIM MATHESON tion system is a lean, mean machinethat does number of cancer in southern Utah. His hometown of Parowan saw 85-90 cancer deaths a year an ex: traordinary rate for this predominantly Mormon popula- tion that neither smoked nor drank. Over and over he read “cancer” on death certificates It will be the same. Mostof Utah’sele‘y childrenwill see class sizes of 28 or more, and our junior highs and high schools will see 35 to 40 students depending on the subject. The buck has to stop somewhere,andif wewant to continueto attract the best and the brightest young teachers, we cannot take away of family members — more than 50 aunts, uncles and cousins. Dozens of atom bombsbigger than the one dropped on Hiroshima were detonated at the Nevada test site between 1951 and 1963. The West was their insurance benefits. My biggest issue with this particular Tribuneeditorial is the mind-set of people who think that when districts make changes to class sizes or programs, that “the burden” is only “borne by the children.” That statement chosen because as long as winds were blowing east, the fallout avoided big cities and traveled over sparsely popu- lated Nevada and Utah towns. aloneis a true indicator that the writeris totally outoftouch with educators and the school I remember my fathertelling me about how people in and students will be increasein classsize. “Leave No Child Bethat increasing class southern Utah would watch the sky light up from the nuclear dead and dying victims of the government's deception. the program Oct. 7, 1990, my father = at age 61 from a cancer multiple myeloma. Tons Children under 19 in 1953 in Washington County would of citizens throughout the West continue to get sick and die from radiation exposure- have a sevenfold increase in deaths from acute leukemia. In 1961, the U.S. Public Health Service sent workers to Utah with instructions to look into adverse health effects among the citizens of Washington County. The findings were sup- pressed until 1979. caused illnesses. Today, the West is again a target. Its wide-open spaces, huge tracts of federally owned land and rural character make Nevada's Yucca Mountain and Utah’s Skull Valley appear “ideal” places to store our na- That is when my father began asking questions about what the government knew. He tion's nuclear waste. Utah could see nuclear waste delivered to the Goshute Indian filed Freedom of Information Reservation in Skull Valley as Act requests, sought money for research, and called on Washington to accept responsibility for the harm it had knowingly inflicted on its own soon as 2004; Nevada’s Yucca Mountain could receive shipments sometime early next decade. Nevada and Utah have no nuclear power plants and citizens. generate noneofthe waste. The On Sept. 27, 1990, Congress acknowledged the federal government’s responsibility when it passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), authorizing payments to simplefact of the matteris that Eastern states want to dump their waste on the West. 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Somedistricts haveever so slightly increased class sizes many times during the past 10 years. Those districts will not have the penditures in the nation. Wehave thehigh class size averages. We have the highest IRS counselors,etc) ave the highest numberofpupils perdis: WhenGranite School District classe: by1.5 pupils next year | will blame the Legislature. The Granite School Board and other school boards in thestate AndNational Responsibility number of pupils per total staff (administra tors, secretaries, bus drivers, Sunday,April 28, 2002 oealtLakeBribune (4) DeseretNews ( |
