Despite receiving the complete state mineral museum budget
every year since 2010, the AHS closed the mineral museum and scattered its
assets across the state in the spring of 2011. Each year since, 40,000 students
have been deprived of the K-12 education programs.
Now, as of January 1, 2015, the AHS is offering school tours
at their Marley Center Museum (Museum at Papago Park) in Tempe. They have transferred some of the mineral
museum assets there and opened what they call a Gallery of Natural History.
The mineral museum provided free educational services to all
students and teachers. The AHS wants $4 per student for a watered down version
of the mineral museum.
Why do they need to charge students $4 each when they still
get the entire mineral museum budget, plus millions more each year from
taxpayers?
Perhaps it does not matter. What responsible teacher would
take students to a mediocre history museum for a science lesson?
