[Hildy]

I won't even address the topic of this stupid article, but there is something in there that should be addressed:

live in a town that has million-dollar houses. And yet our schoolchildren have to pay to ride the school bus, to play school sports, to participate in school plays, to play in the school band, to take part in any extracurricular activities. Our library might be forced to cut back its hours. This isn't unique to my town. It's happening across the state.

Instead of worrying what people do with their own money...journalists should start investigating what the government is doing with your money.

[Howlin]

That struck me, too:

And yet our schoolchildren have to pay to ride the school bus, to play school sports, to participate in school plays, to play in the school band, to take part in any extracurricular activities.

Pay to ride the bus? I've never heard of that, but if it's true, it's probably because of the same thing happening there that happened here: some woman sued the county school system saying her children were ENTITLED to a FREE education and she didn't want to pay the fees that books and labs, etc., entailed.

So guess what: now there are NO fees and crudy schools.

This was the same woman who demanded free breakfast and lunch for ALL her kids; but one day she came to school to get the girls and signed them out early.

In the place where you wrote the reason for children leaving school early, she proudly wrote, "Glamour Shots."

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Instead of worrying what people do with their own money...journalists should start investigating what the government is doing with your money.

Bravo Sierra!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Ms. Whiner apparently is unaware that the taxes paid on these houses funds a couple of teams by themselves.