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smoothoperator wrote:

JALLEN wrote:I think we would be much better off if the public schools were closed, and parents home schooled or paid their own money for a third party to do the job.

FYP

That is a great plan, for creating a permanent underclass composed of those who cannot read or write. Then you would have a upper crust of the underclass, folks who can read/write but have no real knowledge beyond that (math, science, history). Eventually we could get back to the time when a noble class would spring up to rule us all.

If that sounds like a good plan it is only because you believe that you and your family would be part of the nobility. Good luck with that.

Skiprr wrote:

n5wd wrote:That's an awfully broad paint brush you're using, TAM, and one that, IMHO, isn't justified in the cases that I am familiar with.

Bond issues are how the only way that some entities, such as school districts, are able to expand and grow their facilities in advance of increasing populations such as is happening in most counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

Where are these increasing populations coming from? Do the DFW school districts require citizenship documentation? Do the parents of those students pay taxes?

I have no children, yet I pay over $5,000 each year in school district taxes simply because I own a home.

My neighbor across the street has four children attending public school. He pays exactly the same property tax that I do.

What's wrong with this picture?

Those 4 kids will be the workers of the future who contribute the taxes that pay your social security and medicare benefits. We live in a society, meaning we all rely on each other to some degree. The better educated and more successful those around us are the better we have the chance to live too. Think of your school tax money as an investment in the nation.