[CottonBall]

Unfortunately, Texas isn’t the only state with a liberal education system. I’d bet most are liberal ever since the NEA got a stranglehold on our schools. I wouldn’t mind paying property taxes so much if the money wasn’t used for the liberal indoctrination of our youth. And academics were actually taught.

That said, when we were in Corpus, the Flour Bluff Middle School that I did my student teaching at was headed by an unashamed conservative principle. He was amazing! He assumed openly that all his teachers were conservative - and I didn’t see one dispute him on that. If I had stayed in the area, I could’ve worked for him easily. (Since we moved to CA instead, I taught all of one semester and quit the ‘profession’ forever after that.)

[April Lexington]

I hear you. Schools should be funded by a broad tax like income or sales. Property tax is a wealth tax and, as most Americans hold most of their wealth in their houses, it is highly discriminatory. The Elderly and the poor get hit hardest. Only the middle aged career people don't mind property tax. But when they retire, its a mad dash to the “cheap” states with low property taxes. Consumed the big public spending to raise the kids, then run for the hills once the kids are grown.