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In a society whose public educational system is underfunded and whose rural communities are often shortchanged in resource allocations, they are essential.

He declined to speculate about why Bass fired Crowley, who publicly criticized the mayor days after the Palisades fire began for supposedly shortchanging her department.

The administration contends that students will not be shortchanged.

“The House Republican spending bill is a non-starter — it completely shortchanges California on disaster relief in the wake of the devastating LA County fires.”

Still, the effort at variety gets messy and shortchanges a portion of whatever opportunity there may be to make a parable out of a popular hero’s adventures.