Friday, December 9, 2011

Redistricting Problems in Texas

In this article Supreme Court Freezes Texas Elections. The supreme court is freezing the texas elections  because it seems that the districting is flawed and skewed to give us different reuslts. The courts demanded to have a oral argument ready Jan 9th. The court is making sure the Voting Rights' Act is protecting the interests of minority voters and for some reason they said " particularly the Hispanics what about African Americans and the other races? they said protecting the rights of the minority, hispanics make up about 37% and all the other races combined make up about 20% excluding whites. they should have pointed out particularly Hispanics because if it were truly represented they would have left the part where it said particularly Hispanics.
They said they want to change the district lines in Texas but that is too late there already has been money sent to different districts to build bigger buildings for school for example Round Rock High school has people leaving there school because of the new district lines drawn and then the court system would have to make them move again? Parents purposely moved to a certain district for their child to stick with their friends. District lines have been drawn and money sent to build these buildings like for example RRHS has a new 3000 building and has all these changes been done to it because of new district lines. If they redraw the district lines again, people would have gained money and lost money for the wrong reasons.  

Response to Allison's blog

My colleague, Allison wrote a post about “Childhood Hunger”. There is an Organization called the No Kid Hungry Campaign which helps feed kids that have parents that have low income levels. Of course this is a great idea but how could they raise this money and fund this by 2015? It says it has 3 levels to accomplish this goal which are Live, learn, and play as simple as this may sound it could actually be the great seed to get out of the recession. This is because our kids are the future and if we provide them the correct nutrition they have happier healthy brains that could perform better for the future society but once again providing this organization with money would be difficult.

Students at public schools already get this benefit from tax payers where underprivileged kids get their breakfast and lunches free because there parents didn't have enough income which I personally think is unfair. The reason why I have food to eat is because my parents worked hard. Why would we have to take care of kids because their parents didn't work hard. I know its the moral thing to do but lazy people shouldn't be carried and really it's too bad that their bad parenting has lead their kids into their world. Why would the income kids have meals brought to them during the summer low? That would be money lost to the kids that already have rich parents it's because to see that would hurt society much more. Like the students at my Round Rock High school you wouldn't know who had free lunch and free breakfast because we all go under the same protocol. It's all about trying to keep things seem fair when there really not so no one makes a big fuss.