O.K. Springfield, for those of you who are delighted to shell out more tax dollars, April 4th will be your chance.
...the Springfield Board of Education agreed Tuesday to ask voters to finance a $96.5 million bond issue to fund air conditioning and building projects around the district.
If approved, your property taxes would increase 18 cents per $100.
Administrators ...hired professional pollsters to conduct telephone surveys of likely voters.
About 53 percent of voters polled in January indicated they supported the proposed projects. Four-sevenths of voters, or about 57 percent, must vote yes for the measure to pass.
One mother is quoted as saying that she hoped that it passes, as the kids need air conditioning. "If it gets so hot, you can't concentrate."
We didn't have air conditioning at the school I graduated from, but the nuns had ways of encouraging you to pay attention. Actually, I can't remember ever being THAT uncomfortable without air and I went to school in a hotter state.
They want to close schools, then they want to build more schools...
Before you start crying the blues for the Springfield school system, try reading John Stossel's response to the hate mail he's received since "Stupid In America" aired. (Here's a link to the video in case you missed the program.)
Stossel writes:
A study by two professors at the Hoover Institution a few years ago compared public and Catholic schools in three of New York City's five boroughs. Parochial education outperformed the nation's largest school system "in every instance," they found -- and it did it at less than half the cost per student.
"Everyone has been conned -- you can give public schools all the money in America, and it will not be enough," says Ben Chavis, a former puclic school principal who now runs the American Indian Charter School in Oakland, Calif. His school spends thousands less per student than Oakland's government-run schools spend.
Count on me to vote NO.
You want better schools? Push for school vouchers. Then pay attention to your kids!
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