allison
cactusantics.bsky.social
allison
@cactusantics.bsky.social
Mother. Epidemiologist. Community.
Wait, as a Great Lakes girlie, I need that Great Lakes one. I grew up on Lake Michigan!
March 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Duh
March 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
You know what made me a prepper? My emergency preparedness classes in grad school. 🤣
March 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Why Heard?
March 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Facts. It’s 4th highest in enrollment. 2nd highest in 1-8, which is revenue generating ages. Has second LOWEST per pupil expenditure.
March 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The district says the school has declining enrollment, low young population to enroll, lack of community, and that it’s too expensive to run.
March 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The district has not responded to any FOIA requests, refuses to acknowledge our existence and keeps telling people that the data provided to me by the state of Arizona, Department of Education, is wrong. 🤨
March 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Over 95% of Heard students qualify for free/reduced lunch, & nearly a third are learning English. Heard is a vital community school, but it needs support. A tax credit donation directly to Heard helps provide opportunities. Be sure to specify Heard School!

www.phxschools.org/heard/tax-cr...
www.phxschools.org
March 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
We are one of the biggest tax generator neighborhoods in the district and yet, our community school is severely and what I believe, intentionally underfunded. Kids at the public montesorri school get field trips and grow their own food. Heard kids don’t get field trips or book fairs or carnivals.
February 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
And I’m upper middle class — like realistically if I were in Scottsdale and this happened, I’d be pissed but unphased. I didnt even care when I found out until I started meeting with families and hearing their lives. This has shook me to my absolute core. I’m reliving 1950’s segregation in 2025.
February 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I wanted to be Harriet the Spy so bad.
February 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I’m really having a difficult time grappling with the fact so many kids are going to lose education and also go hungry. Schools provide families with so much.
February 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I cried at work and my coworker was like “who?”
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Oh and the land was donated by said philanthropist for the school to be built on. Maie Bartlett Heard, I’m so sorry this country failed the open notes test.
February 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They’re gonna tear down a historic school to build apartments and a bus stop and the school is named after an education philanthropist. America truly is the bad place.
February 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM