Interview

Interview with Raquel Valdez
Parent of two students of Sherman Elementary


Question: Did you support any of the Propositions Superintendent Tom Luna proposed?

Answer: No.

Question: Which were you least in favor of?

Answer: Proposition 1. If prop 1 was passed, a concern of mine would have been teachers being pressured to do certain things and
being let go for not complying; Or teachers being terminated due to bias in the districts.

Question: Do you think global reform of the education system can be achieved?

Answer; I hope so. I believe it can as long as we start acting like we actually care about our students.

Question: Do you mean “we” as in us parents or who are you referring to?

Answer: Well I guess everyone. Parents’ yes otherwise kids would not go to school at all. And our state officials. I mean I find it ridiculous that every other year cops get new cars and every year the schools lose more programs.

Question: The districts are asking voters to approve levies. Are you in support of Nampa’s levy?

Answer: Yes. I mean I don’t see why I would oppose it. It sucks that if approved we won’t even see that money go to schools. I mean they will but only to help clear debt.