I am so sorely tempted to add up all the bond money, add in the school budgets, and calculate the true cost to educate a single student vs the most expensive private schools in the state. My guess is that the 'expensive' schools will be about half the price.
It's for the children
I'm not voting for any more school bonds - I don't give a damn what they claim they're for - until I see some return for the money we already pay for education. As far as I can tell, if it weren't for Mississippi (or maybe Arkansas), California would come in DEAD LAST in the education sweepstakes. Thank you, teachers' unions - you're doing a helluva job. But not on my dime any longer.
just imagine how many state-of-the-art Aircraft Carriers, F-22 Raptors and other critically important millitary investments could be purchased with that sort of money!!
Instead, they are just gonna piss it off on stupid thing like teachers unions, gay propoganda, etc which has absolutely nothing and has shown NOTHING in advancing education for the kids :-( :-(
Red alert!
There's always some Democrat buzz-phrase at election time, where's the beef, out of touch with reality, etc. This year it's "no-brainer" as in don't think when you vote for more spending. I searched Google News and it came up with 2,400 "no-brainer" hits in recent propaganda. Enough already.
Translation: Give us more money to spend now and we'll promise to save some for later.
And that's all you get, a promise.
The worst thing about all this bricks and mortar investment is that in an age of distance learning, bricks and mortar are the last thing we need to improve education. It's warehousing kids for indoctrination, pure and simple.
I'm not sure I could point to an election in my memory that did not offer up a school bond. She has this feeling and yet there she is: she's voting for it!