09-23-2003, 12:45 PM
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Originally posted by Furious_Female
Whether or not it's right to put up schools in Iraq, the US school system starts within it's own community. If you have a problem with the quality of schools in your area, get out and vote for the school budget decisions. If you vote for higher taxes, your schools will have better quality. It's been my observation that most people vote against higher school budgets because they do not want to pay more taxes. So we should then depend on the federal government to support every aspect of the school systems, when it's already been in place for years, that your local taxes are paying for what is around you. Sure the government can start giving billions to the schools for improvement, but once you start making deposits like this, it's like feeding stray cats... you always have to do it, which isn't practical. We can give money to the Iraqi people, give them a start that they have never had and we can walk away, we can't do that in America, because we'd always have to maintain it after the initial start. It's like someone giving you a house or car and paying the payments on it for a year... will you be able to pay for it on your own and maintain it, after the year is up?
Education starts in the home and from what I have observed in schools, parents are not encouraging or enforcing their children's education like they should be. Americans are too busy working, to take enough interest in what is happening to their kids education. They expect the teachers to play babysitter, educator and mentor. Some parents can't even make sure the kids have breakfast before school, they damn sure don't care what happens after they leave the house.
Public schools in America may be over crowded, but again... that's on a local level. Find out where YOUR tax dollars are going in your area and make a change if you are unhappy with it. What the federal government does with our tax dollars, no one has any control over. You'd like to think you do, by voting for this one or that one, but the truth is, there will always be things paid for by your tax dollars, that you don't approve of.
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Not true in California.. Davis is taking property tax money from wealthy areas and giving it to poor areas.. |
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