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Texas - Most OK with tax hike for schools
Dallas Morning News ^
| 2/21/2006
| Christy Hoppe
Posted on 02/21/2006 9:45:57 AM PST by Cat loving Texan
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Didn't see this posted yet. If its a duplicate feel free to delete. I am SHOCKED and SADDENED that so many Texans are willing to sign on for a tax hike.
To: Cat loving Texan
I don't believe this for a second.
Polls are manipulated. There's no bigger leviathan than the money-grubbing, power-mad public school system.
Get 'em young and get 'em skooled.
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:49:18 AM PST
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Cat loving Texan
Time and again it has been proven that if you spend $1,000 per student in a public school, you will get a $1,000 education. And if you spend $5,000 you will also get a $1,000 education. And if you spend $10,000 you will also get a $1,000 education.
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:49:26 AM PST
by
wideawake
To: Cat loving Texan
Of course... Its "for the children"...
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:50:23 AM PST
by
Pessimist
To: Cat loving Texan
Not this Texan.
I'm for letting everyone keep their money and sending their kids to the private school of their choice with the money they save.
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:52:23 AM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: Cat loving Texan
I do not believe this for a second either. I'll bet they did not ask a lot of people who actually pay taxes.
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:52:47 AM PST
by
jospehm20
To: Cat loving Texan
Did the pollster ask whether the taxpayer would feel the same if the student was illegally in the country or the child of an illegal alien?
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:53:25 AM PST
by
AJFavish
To: Dr. Eckleburg
I don't believe this for a second.
Unfortunately I do There are enough sheep who believe spending more money on education is good and will fix the problem. This philosophy has been taught from Kindergarden on by the Teachers Unions.
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Cat loving Texan
I believe it, too. An astonishing number of otherwise reasonably functional people still believe that spending more money on government schools will produce better results.
I suspect this is because they're too busy watching football games or "American Idol" to read the numerous studies that show a negative correlation between spending and results.
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:57:53 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(My remark was stupid, and I'm a slave of the patriarchy. So?)
To: Cat loving Texan
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posted on
02/21/2006 9:58:27 AM PST
by
Texans
To: Cat loving Texan
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
School Officials are buying their tickets to Italy in haste ... 2 week vacation
Ahem, before the money runs out.
To: Cat loving Texan
Whatever happened to that Big Tobacco settlement?
I thought that would fund Tx. schools for years?
To: Cat loving Texan
In my opinion, big-salaried school administration is almost as bloated as the Federal government.
Consolidation is in order, or at the least - pruning the number of Vice principals, staff assistants, coaches and trainers, and counselors.
The savings could fund lower class size and more actual class room teachers.
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posted on
02/21/2006 10:01:46 AM PST
by
Texan
To: Cat loving Texan
I get tired of hearing how little teachers make. Yesterday I looked up for a class I am taking what a teacher makes in my area. The median salary for an elementary school teacher in my area is around $42K base, $59K with benefits. I do not care how you slice it, that is not bad for a 150 day a year job.
To: Cat loving Texan
They never asked me. We already pay $8000 for each student.
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posted on
02/21/2006 10:02:25 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Cat loving Texan
They never called me and my meter just pegged.
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posted on
02/21/2006 10:06:15 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(I never got a job from a person on a government program.)
To: TexasCajun
IIRC the lottery was also going to "fix" the problem.
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posted on
02/21/2006 10:08:05 AM PST
by
rustyncrusty
(Where liberty dwells, there is my country. - Ben Franklin)
To: Cat loving Texan; Peanut Gallery
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posted on
02/21/2006 10:08:36 AM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(It's a bunch of hot air, crap flows down hill, and electrons go wherever they darn well please.)
To: Cat loving Texan
I want to know if the survey was given in english and spanish?Given madates to hire bi-lingual teachers and the criminal notion of hiring illegal aliens as teachers...
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posted on
02/21/2006 10:09:43 AM PST
by
Vortex
(Garbage in, Garbage Out)
To: rustyncrusty
IIRC the lottery was also going to "fix" the problem.~snicker~ I remember that. The lottery was going to bring X dollars a year. Funny how every state agency under the sun just needed X more dollars to make everything nice nice.
I voted against it.
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posted on
02/21/2006 10:10:36 AM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(It's a bunch of hot air, crap flows down hill, and electrons go wherever they darn well please.)
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