Strangely here on Free Republic we have many who still believe in public schools. You have an excellent post and your situation is not unusual.
One of the points I tried to make earlier on was that the security in schools cost so much. Administrators are spending so much time on security that they really can't be educators.
Our High Schools look like a prison, during lunch there are uniformed security guards at every entrance/exit to the cafeteria, about 6 to 8 security people.
The profanity coming from the inmates is unbelievable.
I agree, the security cost is very high.
I also own a small business. The school board took us to court after we bought the place, telling us that we 'didn't pay enough' for our business. They ened up raising our taxes 130%.
That's after we fought them in court. AND, they did this in violation of the Ohio Constitution.
But then again, Governor Bob Taft seems to have his attention occupied in other directions.
Here's the bottom line. When we bought the business our taxes were $1600 a year. In two years time our taxes are now $4400 per year.
All thanks to the school board. It's "for the children" after all.
The funny thing was, the female superintendent wrote an e-mail to one of her cronies after a school board election. In the e-mail, which was posted in the local TASS newspaper, she said that the voters and people in this city are 'brain dead.'
She's not even from this city and makes, I believe, just under 200 K a year. And our schools are still in Academic Emergency, or whatever the lowest rating is on their scale.
The people are brain dead, because this is a Democrat Utopia.