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What Supporting the Yes! for Humboldt Override Means



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With all that is going on in the world right now, has anyone thought of the children? Yes, that’s right, there are still children who are caught in the cogs of the daily grind. Children who will grow up in a world where they have not been able to attend school because of a virus that has robbed them of the innocence of youth. It is not our place in history to decide what the effects have been on the children, we just know that their childhood does not resemble ours in any way. This reality, once it sets in, will leave a generation of students with greater needs than currently imagined.

Children will be impacted by everything we see around us, and some of us may rely on the comfort of trite responses such as, “turn off the news.” This may work if the world they live in had a release valve from this. Some might, but others whose home environment does not match what you were brought up with do not. If anything, we are working for those who have the need to unplug, have an intelligible conversation with an adult, and feel like they are safe and loved amidst a world in utter chaos. If not for them, then who? Do we truly want the impact of a student to counselor ratio of 1500 students to 1 felt by the children who need this service? If you have looked at our suicide rates in Yavapai County lately, you would be appalled. One life is too many lives lost, and you have statistics that put this county at 3 times the national average before the pandemic.

As Gandhi once stated, “You will never know what the results may come of your actions, but if you do nothing there will be no results.” In this case, the result of inaction is worse. How many more young lives will be lost from inaction on providing students with the services they need? Schools in Arizona already lag behind the rest of the country in Counselor to student ratios (950:1), and Humboldt is even further behind schools in Arizona coming in at 1500 students per counselor. Should the Humboldt Override pass that number will be brought down to 385 students per counselor. For just a small increase in taxes per month, you can be part of a solution to a growing problem.  Support Yes for Humboldt to approve the Humboldt Override this election.

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