Legislature in grieving process

State lawmakers appeared to be working through the five stages of grief after the school finance court ruling: 1) denial (“The court can’t do that!”); 2) anger; 3) bargaining; 4) depression (especially if they have to raise taxes); 5) acceptance (we hope).
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

One Comment

  1. jimmy
    Posted June 13, 2005 at 9:02 am | Permalink

    Welcome to the Wichita Eagle’s Left Blog. It would be hard to find a bigger group of bed-wetting whiners anywhere, except in another newsroom. MSM are all the same.

    As for school finance and the Kansas Supreme Court, I’m from the right side that wonders about the separation of powers. Legislators write the tax laws, not the courts.

    Public education in Wichita is a financial black hole, where more education money means a fatter and sassier bureacracy and dumb and dumber students as a result.

    A similar enterprise competing in the open market place would soon be out of business with such dismal results. Yet we must endure public education from generation to generation, always being asked to pay more and more, and getting less and less in return.

    More dollars for public education forced by the courts is insanity.

    (Insanity – doing the same actions over and over and expecting different results)