>Subject: Re: DisgustingFrom: Steve White swhite@you.still.don.t.get.thisDate: 2/3/2005 1:28 P.M. Eastern Standard TimeMessage-id: <swhite-F97656.12280003022005@news.uchicago.edu>In article <42020770$0$19037$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com>, "\(the\)duckster" <duckster@erinet.com> wrote: "Marley Greiner" writes Here in Ohio it would be nice if the legislature obeyed repeated OSC orders that mandate a change in the funding structure. Taft and his cronies downtown decided last year that they had no duty to obey the court orders. So property owners continue to get screwed. I normally don't comment on issues outside of adoption, but as an Ohio resident I know a thing or two about getting hammered in prop taxes. Here in Jefferson Twp we have the highest property taxes in the county of which half goes to a school system where moving from a near take over by the state to academic emergency was a reason to cheer. We have the highest paid super, teachers in the county, spend more money per student than same, yet by the time the kids are state tested in the fourth grade they are completely lost. Only the city of Dayton school test beneath us. So on top of our $1800 a year going to feed this beast, we pay an additional $550/month to send our daughter to private school. Now don't get me wrong, we love where we live and are here by choice. But twice a year our school district tries to push yet another levy and it's awfully hard to continue to vote for failure. And when you see things like a nearly 18 million dollar tax abatement for yet another mall, you have to wonder what people are thinking.Thanks, MamaDuck. Your post illustrates clearly why money is not theroot cause of the problem in our schools.Don't get me wrong -- money is nice to have, and schools that have moremoney generally provide more opportunity. But political chicanery willundo all of that and pee all the money away.It isn't the money, folks, it's the politics. And it starts at the locallevel.steve

Well Steve, I started High School at Foreman high school when the neighborhood
was changing, the joke was you either would deliver hot beef sandwiches or
steal the hot beef sandwich guys car. Lived at Fullerton and Cicero, moved to
Highland Park mid freshman year, the discussion was MIT or Harvard. My
classmate Harriet Chang got accepted to MIT at 16. Money does count, it counts
a whole lot. In Florida the schools with the worst FCAT grades get penalized
with a monetary cut. The schools with the best grades get more money. So Palm
Beach with the new schools and the best of everything get more money. East
Manatee with a high povert rate and lousy facilities get a funding cut. Bush
logic, Jeb, not George, but their logic is the same.