Editorial

Should One Person Really Be Deciding How $2 Billion Will Be Spent on Massachusetts Schools?

     Guess who’ll be deciding how the Commonwealth will be spending an extra $2 billion per year to improve our schools --- and whether we will have to come up with even more?
      It will be a lawyer. One of them has already made a decision. She believes she is capable of making that unbelievably complicated decision by herself. As we reported earlier this week, she has decided our Constitution has given her that responsibility because she, Margot Botsford, wears a black robe and is a judge in a state court.
      However, most believe that John Adams and the other framers of our state Constitution intended to protect us from such tyranny and oppression, not enwrap us in it.
      Judge Margot Botsford has told Attorney General Reilly she does not agree with him that more money won’t necessarily solve the problems in the schools of our inner-cities.
     It’s Worse! Guess Who’s Waiting at the SJC?
     But it’s even worse. Guess to whom Judge Botsford forwarded her opinion for approval? It went to Justice John Greaney at the Supreme Judicial Court --- the same man who is indicted in the legislature for removal from office for corruption, in going along with Margaret Marshall’s promise to hold for the attorneys in the gay marriage case if they filed in our state courts.
      Does that man have the intelligence to decide how we should be spending an additional $2 billion on our schools --- and whether we should be forced to spend even more?
      Do you want to entrust those decisions to any one person, particularly John Greaney or any other lawyer? What makes them so special? Who was it who assigned the case to Botsford, an acknowledged liberal, who brags that she is a card-carrying member of the ACLU? Was it the discredited Chief of the Superior Court, Suzanne DelVecchio, who also assured the homosexuals they would win if they filed in her Superior Court?
      Attorney General Reilly has attempted to raise some of those questions. The Beacon Hill Institute is also helping with a study reported by us earlier this week (which included the full text of the 58-page report which includes results from every school district in the state.)
      The “notion” that more money will help learning is deeply held, but not verified, says Beacon Hill, which has made a computer model to test that notion.
      So now John Greaney will be the one person deciding whether Margot was right in her decision about our $2 billion and the education of our children.
      Is that really what John Adams had in mind, as Margot has told us?
     Do we really want to leave this in the hands of a court system that a distinguished group, appointed by Justice Marshall, told us last year is so bad that it is “dysfunctional?”