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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.
1 posted on 02/21/2006 9:46:00 AM PST by Cat loving Texan
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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.
2 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)
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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.
3 posted on 02/21/2006 9:49:26 AM PST by wideawake
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To: Cat loving Texan

Of course... Its "for the children"...


4 posted on 02/21/2006 9:50:23 AM PST by Pessimist
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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.


5 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!")
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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.


6 posted on 02/21/2006 9:52:47 AM PST by jospehm20
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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?


7 posted on 02/21/2006 9:53:25 AM PST by AJFavish
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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.


8 posted on 02/21/2006 9:53:50 AM PST by Cat loving Texan
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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.


9 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?)
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To: Cat loving Texan

This Texans isn't....


10 posted on 02/21/2006 9:58:27 AM PST by Texans
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

School Officials are buying their tickets to Italy in haste ... 2 week vacation

Ahem, before the money runs out.

11 posted on 02/21/2006 9:59:09 AM PST by Idisarthur
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Whatever happened to that Big Tobacco settlement?

I thought that would fund Tx. schools for years?

12 posted on 02/21/2006 9:59:59 AM PST by TexasCajun
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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.

13 posted on 02/21/2006 10:01:46 AM PST by Texan
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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.


14 posted on 02/21/2006 10:02:18 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Cat loving Texan

They never asked me. We already pay $8000 for each student.


15 posted on 02/21/2006 10:02:25 AM PST by dfwgator
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They never called me and my meter just pegged.

16 posted on 02/21/2006 10:06:15 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I never got a job from a person on a government program.)
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To: TexasCajun

IIRC the lottery was also going to "fix" the problem.


17 posted on 02/21/2006 10:08:05 AM PST by rustyncrusty (Where liberty dwells, there is my country. - Ben Franklin)
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To: Cat loving Texan; Peanut Gallery

No way.


18 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.)
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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...

19 posted on 02/21/2006 10:09:43 AM PST by Vortex (Garbage in, Garbage Out)
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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.

20 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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