Shannon Eubanks: Why I Fight For Education Funding

Welcome to "Show and Tell," an inside view of Mississippi's schools. Here you will find vignettes, op-eds, and insider perspective pieces from Mississippi's own public education community. We invite you inside the walls of your schools to see firsthand accounts of your tax dollars at work. Come with us, make education whole with us- Go with us beyond budget numbers to see how school funding affects the lives of real kids in our dear old Magnolia State.

Today, we present perspective from Shannon Eubanks, principal of Enterprise Attendance Center in Brookhaven. His piece makes a perfect starting point in our conversation because he does such a great job of presenting the case for full funding for our schools, as well as debunking much of the misinformation being perpetrated by those who oppose it.

As Eubanks so succinctly puts it:

The argument about school funding and MAEP is simple: Do you support a chance at a quality education for all students and believe that the purpose of schools is to prepare students to take their place in our society and be a contributing member? Or do you believe in a dual system, for the haves and the have-nots, and that money is wasted trying to educate the poorest, highest minority, economically depressed areas of our state?

Here is Shannon Eubanks' article "Why I Fight for Education Funding," from the website of the Jackson Free Press.

"Why I Fight For Education Funding" 

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