Editor:
California pays over $100,000 per kid to keep Orick School open (“One School, Nine Students,” April 23). Well … as of the 2025-26 budget, California’s average annual cost to incarcerate a person was $127,800. So, I’d say, money well spent. Also, most prison sentences are longer than the nine-year investment in one student for a K-to-8 education.
Carol Moné, Trinidad
This article appears in Know Your Rights.
